There are several versions of the livescribe and each allows an audio recording to occur synced with your writing. The lastest version - 3 - uses your iPad or iPhone for the audio while,the earlier still very competent versions record direct to the pen itself.
The latest version is much more pen like in your hand but factor in costs for the exclusive paper when comparing it to the equil. Avoid the first equil as it will be a real let down.
Isn't this like the Wacom inkling? It looks and sounds exactly the same, but the price seems to be a good bit lower. If the quality is the same though, Inkling has a tough competitor going for it
"We're fans of taking physical notes, since you simply can't type as fast as you can write in meetings..."
I easily type 2-4 times faster than hand writing. It's not even remotely close to being a competition. Once you get over 50 words per minute (which isn't even that fast) there's no way hand writing can keep up. Maybe using shorthand, maybe.
That being said this looks like a neat product and this was a good review.
One can always write notes in short-hand and record the audio far more readily than even typing. Learning short-hand is something anyone can benefit from doing.
It would be a very cool device. But unfortunatley the company behind the smartpen Luidia is absolutely unprofessional. They started a Indiegogo campaign to earn 500 000 $ with the promise to deliver their backers instantly. But instead of respecting the backers they delivered the pens to apple stores and shipped the backers with ups and extra VAT, fee and taxes. Some backers have to pay 90 € to get the device from UPS. The status updates on indiegogo are totaly senseless and they don't care about the backers. Think what happens when you will have a problem with your device!
I also own an iPad Air 2 and not able to get it work with the Equil Smartpen 2, both Apple Support and Equil Support did not provide a solution to me. As you mention something similar in your article. What have you done to get it work?
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The latest version is much more pen like in your hand but factor in costs for the exclusive paper when comparing it to the equil. Avoid the first equil as it will be a real let down.
Is yours indeed a version 2 device?
Yep. Just got it a few days ago. No buzzing.
One can always write notes in short-hand and record the audio far more readily than even typing. Learning short-hand is something anyone can benefit from doing.
It would be a very cool device. But unfortunatley the company behind the smartpen Luidia is absolutely unprofessional. They started a Indiegogo campaign to earn 500 000 $ with the promise to deliver their backers instantly. But instead of respecting the backers they delivered the pens to apple stores and shipped the backers with ups and extra VAT, fee and taxes. Some backers have to pay 90 € to get the device from UPS. The status updates on indiegogo are totaly senseless and they don't care about the backers. Think what happens when you will have a problem with your device!
Denny Lee
Hong Kong