Tungsten Carbide Ball in Latest Smartpen

The latest model of smart pen looks and feels pretty much like a real, regular pen, and writes that way as well, with tungsten carbide ball as the ballpoint. Customers' average user might not even notice, as the weight and balance are great, and the motion and movement quite good. Filled with a decent cartridge, their Swiss-made tungsten-carbide ballpoint ink flows smoothly. As with all similar smartpens, the only slight annoyance is that you have to use special paper with the system. Fifty sheets are included and you can print or buy additional quite easily. The paper features nearly invisible dots that allow the pen to track exactly where it is on the page.

Unlike prior models, this one transmits them nearly instantly to a nearby device using Bluetooth wireless. Simply pair your iPhone or iPad with the pen, and you know have an instant way to capture and store your handwriting. Pen emails and immediately send them, or have your grocery lists saved for posterity. If you want, you can also convert your scrawls to useful text, using pretty accurate OCR (optical character recognition). We found it to be about 90% accurate, either while using cursive or otherwise- better than we expected! Any iOS 7 device will work, and though Android is not currently supported, the company claims that this model will be have compatibility forthcoming in 2014.

The coolest part of using the Livescribe 3- the actions that are built-in, and can be triggered simply by writing specific shapes, saved as reminders, etc. We did miss the audio functionality- previously, you could record snippets using a microphone in the pen, but it was a little cumbersome so we can understand why they dropped the feature. Expanded memory- 2GB- can now hold up to 20000 pages of notes. And the battery life is excellent, up to 14 hours on a charge, and we found it lasted a very long time when writing only occasionally. There isn’t a screen on the pen itself anymore, but a new LED lighting indicator that works for the most part (you’ll just need to check the manual at first). Remember that pairing requires using a written control rather than a button or something, and the pen is on once you have it ready to write, no more powering it up. It isn’t perfect- you’ll find yourself adjusting the way you write a bit to compensate for some of it’s quirks in recognition, and there is a couple of second delay for writing to appear on your mobile device. But the Livescribe 3 can feel pretty magical, and is a definite improvement over any other smartpen that we’ve tested.


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