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Livescribe 4 GB Echo Smartpen |  | Brand: Livescribe
Category: CE
List Price: $169.95
Buy New: $159.95
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Seller: TechUStore
Rating:  15 reviews
Color: 4 GB
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.8 x 0.5 x 6.2
MPN: APA-00006
Model: APA-00006
UPC: 892515002293
EAN: 0892515002293
ASIN: B003RAE19Q
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Smartpen with 4 GB of memory, redesigned with anti-roll body and rubberized smaller grip | | • | Capture thousands of pages of notes and over 800 hours of audio (recording time varies by audio quality setting) | | • | Share notes and recordings privately or online with 500 MB of free storage | | • | MicroUSB connector lets you transfer notes and audio to your Mac or PC | | • | Standard 3.5mm audio jack for use with your favorite earbuds |
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Product Description
Amazing smartpen remembers everything you hear, say and write, then lets you replay your recorded audio with a simple tap. Save your notes and recordings to your computer, or quickly share them with others as pencast, PDF or audio files. Use the Echo smartpen and special dot paper to take notes in meetings or lectures. With just a tap, Echo begins recording the audio and digitizing your handwriting automatically synching the ink and audio. By tapping your notes, you can replay the conversation from the exact moment your note was written, so you never miss a word. The included Livescribe Desktop software helps you back up your notes, search them, play them back from your computer, or share those notes with others. Advanced processing power and substantial memory all in a Montblanc-sized pen! The rechargeable Echo smartpen lets you capture and save important data in simple pen-and-paper format, making it easy to access and share. The 4GB of memory can record 400+ hours of audio* and thousands of pages of notes. Includes what you need to get started. The Echo smartpen comes with a starter dot paper notebook, micro USB cable, Interactive Getting Started Guide, Smarten Tips and Tricks, 2 ink cartridges, 2 smartpen caps, Livescribe Desktop software for Mac or Windows and 500 MB of personal online storage at Livescribe.com. Please note: Echo works only with Livescribe dot paper. Customize your smartpen with downloadable apps. Expand your smartpen s functionality with paid and free apps available at the Livescribe.com Application Store. Available applications range from productivity and reference tools, to games and entertainment, to travel and education. For example, you can read and hear translated phrases in a variety of languages; learn organic chemistry or guitar chords; or keep track of game scores, points, times or distances with your smartpen. Order your Echo smartpen from Brookstone today and never miss a word in meetings or lectures again! *Actua
Amazon.com Product Description
At work. In class. Find what you need with a tap. The Echo smartpen from Livescribe records everything you hear, say and write, and links your audio recordings to your notes, so you can find what you need.  The Livescribe Echo Smartpen (see a larger schematic image of all features). Tap it. Get it. The Echo smartpen records everything you hear and write, so you can find what you need with a simple tap. Ideal for meetings, conferences, or classes, this compact tool is as easy to carry as traditional pen-and-paper, but smarter. Replay your recorded audio anytime, anywhere, with a quick tap on your notes.  New cap and standard USB
and 3.5mm headphone jack.  Launch Line functionality. Echo Enhancements Redesigned with a sleeker look and more ergonomic feel, the Echo Smartpen features a new anti-roll body that's easier to control as well as a smaller rubberized grip that ensures the Echo won't slip out of your hands. It also comes with 2 caps to protect the Smartpen tip. The Echo has also been outfitted with a standard Micro USB port and 3.5mm audio jack on the flattened top of the Smartpen, as well as an OLED screen on the side to make it easy to navigate and interact with applications. New Echo features include: Launch Line - Draw a short line.
- Write the name of an application on top of it (e.g., "Blackjack").
- Double-tap to select or wait a moment.
- Tap around the written word (up, down, left, right) to navigate the menu as needed.
Password - Protect your recorded paper replay sessions in the case of a lost Smartpen
- Use a 4 digit number to protect the smartpen
- Forget your password? Reset it through your registered copy of the Livescribe Desktop software
Smartpen Name - Give your smartpen a name when you set up Livescribe Desktop.
- The same name is briefly shown when you turn on the smartpen.
- Ideal for personalization and identification--particularly useful in office and classroom environments where multiple smartpens are in use.
4 GB of Memory The Echo Smartpen offers 4 GB of memory to hold over 400 hours of audio or 64,000 pages of notes (actual recording time varies by audio quality setting). It works exclusively with Livescribe dot paper (starter set included), which activates all Smartpen applications. Save, Organize, and Search Using the Livescribe Desktop, you can upload, save and play back your notes and audio from your PC or Mac. Type in specific words or phrases in the search window, and the Livescribe Desktop will highlight every place you wrote them in your notes. Plus, you can organize your digital notes simply by dragging and dropping pages in to custom notebooks. *Note: custom notebook feature available for Mac users in September. Send and Share Its easy to share your notes or recordings publically or privately as a PDF, audio file, or a pencast. What’s a pencast? A pencast is an interactive flash movie of your handwritten notes and audio. You can publish pencasts online, share them privately via email, or post them directly on Facebook.  Some of the available Smartpen apps. Smartpen Applications The possibilities for Livescribe applications are endless, with tools and games that enhance personal productivity, learning, communications, and entertainment. With free and paid downloadable apps, you can read and hear a translated phrase in Spanish, French, German, Japanese or even Korean; rapidly access fun facts on a variety of topics from past World Series winners to U.S. Presidents; get help studying geometry, organic chemistry, or Hebrew chanting; play more than a dozen games like Blackjack, Video Poker or Hangman; or listen to classical music pieces--right from the 'pentip' of their Pulse smartpen. Livescribe Desktop The Livescribe Desktop software allows you to digitally transfer your notes and recordings from your Echo smartpen to your PC or Mac. See your notes animate or play your recordings. Play your notes and recordings, organize them, and search for words within your handwritten notes to find what you need. Livescribe Community Upload your pencasts online with the Livescribe Community for everyone to see, hear, and play. Share your notes, drawings, and recordings online as Flash movies or PDF files.  How Livescribe Dot Paper works. Livescribe Dot Paper Livescribe dot paper is regular paper printed with a unique pattern of tiny micro-dots. Livescribe's unique patented dot-positioning system enables the Echo smartpen to precisely track everything it writes on paper. A variety of dot paper products, including college-sized notebooks, journals, and note pads, and you can also print your own dot paper using certified laser-jet printers. What's in the Box The Echo smartpen with 4 GB of memory; Livescribe Desktop software for Mac or Windows (download); 500 MB of personal online storage; starter dot paper notebook; Micro USB Cable; interactive getting started guide; smartpen tips and tricks guide; 2 smartpen caps; 2 ink cartridges The Echo smartpen works only with Livescribe Dot Paper. System Requirements - Windows XP with SP3 or Windows Vista or Windows 7
- Intel-based Mac with Mac OS X 10.5.5 or later, including 10.6
- 300 MB minimum free disk space
- USB 2.0 port
- Internet connection for software download
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| Customer Reviews:
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 I love this pen September 3, 2010
Libescribe 4GB echo smartpen
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It records voice very clearly and easy to use. Also you can save your note on your computer by using this. It's wonderful
 Great Improvement!!! August 29, 2010
Sun Waker (TX)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great improvement over the Pulse pen. I almost didn't buy it because I thought the updates weren't mindblowing enough, but there are many handy features in the Echo.
The body is much lighter, and the new design feels much more natural in the hand, even though it is still fairly large. I love that it is much more lightweight, and the rubberized grip is more comfortable. The pen doesn't get really cold like the Pulse did sometimes, and doesn't start rolling around when you set it down. It also feels at first like it is not as sturdy, but honestly, the metal case of the Pulse may have given a false impression of sturdiness, since the reason you shouldn't be dropping the pen is much more likely to be the electronics inside rather the the build of the pen's case anyway.
Upgrading the software and pen firmware to use it was a breeze. I love that, if you use the same email account to register the pen as your previous one(s), you can now see notes from all your pens side by side. I don't know why the other reviewer was complaining abou the speed of rendering thumbnails in the Mac software. It's not instantaneous, but it is perfectly acceptable.
I am also PSYCHED that we will soon be able to delete pages and create custom notebooks in the mac software.
But back to the pen. I was an idiot and lost my previous pen. Obviously, no one turned it in to the multiple lost and founds where I work. So I spent a good while freaking out about what was in the pen - nothing super confidential, but there were a few jokes about bosses made by co-workers during certain meetings... I cannot cry over spilled milk forever, but I LOVE that you can pasword protect your notes with the Echo. (I don't know for sure that this is not a firmware update that is available for the Pulse also, but they seem to imply it's not?!?). It will definitely be very useful in meetings where actual confidential material is being discussed.
I thought I was going to miss having a dock (I had both the original dock and the standing one), but frankly, I don't. I like that I don't have to carry that bulk around to download my notes; it's much more portable this way. I also like the pen caps. I agree they could be easily lost, but mine go on very tightly and make the pen look really sleek.
Best of all, I LOVE that you can remove the pen tip with your fingers!!! I can't say how irritating it was to be in the middle of a lecture, run out of ink, and not be able to take notes anymore because I forgot the dock and couldn't remove the pen tip no matter how hard I tried.
I also like that the box is more streamlined, and the instructions and tips booklets are helpful and very easy to understand. The only thing is that it may be a bit cheap of them not to include the headphones with the pen anymore. But then again, I can count in one hand how many times I used my Pulse headphones (I used them only to record in poor conditions), so come to think of it, I appreciate paying less to get the pen and then having the choice to add the headphones later if I feel I need it.
Overall, I think this product is the BOMB. The Pulse was great, and the Echo is AWESOME. Everyone I show it to wants one, even the people who have no idea what I am talking about until they see it working. I decided I am going to buy the Livescribe Deluxe Carrying Case, and just keep the cap (should help not losing it), my extra pen tips, and the headset in there. Having to carry a big case like that should also help me not lose this one.
UPDATE/TIP: I bought the Deluxe Carrying Case and it's great!!! I can keep everything in one place and it's much more noticeable and therefore easy to remember/less likely to slip off your pocket (because it won't fit in your pocket). On another note, to use the password feature you have to handwrite the numbers of the password on the page of a Livescribe notebook, and write it again every time you want to play that recording off the book itself!!! Livescribe gives you tips on how to write numbers in different parts of the page or make them parts of phone numbers, dates, or equations, but who wants to have to write numbers at random on their notes to lock or unlock them? That's silly Livescribe! Let us use the little keyboard in the cover of notebooks to enter our password.
Livescribe Echo pen review August 29, 2010
Christian Larsen (Sydney, Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent product. Highly recommended. The desktop software is particularly good for PC.
My only gripes: Mac software is not as functional as its PC equivalent (but is meant to be updated in September 2010), and fine point pen tips are not available.
I use cursive writing almost all of the time, will this work? August 28, 2010
Harry Long (Denton, TX United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read several reviews that say that cursive writing is a problem. I write using cursive writing almost all of the time, will this be able to read my writing and convert to text? If that doesn't work, then it probably isn't for me.
 Works Well on Windows; Mac Software Sluggish & Handwriting Recognition Add On MyScript Does Not Work Well August 25, 2010
SanjeevP (Michigan, USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Amazing! is the first reaction to this device. Here are the things it can do, and generally well.
1. Write like a regular pen.
2. Record voice or sound like any digital recorder.
3. Link the written notes to the recorded sound. So if tap on a written word it will play the sound recorded at the time that word was written.
4. Upload handwritten notes and voice to computer.
5. Share your written notes and audio (Pencasts)).
The sound quality is fairly good. There are lot of add on apps available like games, language translation, piano etc. which I have not used so far. It comes with two fine black ink cartridges, no medium, and I wish there was one included. The writing was faint with fine tip and it was scratchy to write. So I had to order an extra pack of five Livescribe ARA-000007 4 Medium Blue and 1 Fine Red Ink Cartridge cartridges. Sometimes the writing is faint on the computer even with medium tipped blue cartridges.
PROBLEMS
1. BUGGY MAC LIVESCRIBE DESKTOP SOFTWARE: Echo pen does not come with any software, you have to download that from the web site. LiveScribe Desktop for Mac software is very sluggish and glitchy. You will be watching the spinning wheel for a while (3:48 minutes) when it starts, it will keep on asking you for email address and password and not let you use the program until you do. And if you are not connected to the Internet, the LiveScribe won't stop spinning until you connect the Echo pen. Windows software is actually better, faster and does not hang up like that. After you connect the pen, it takes a while for the notes to show up. Although you can archive the notes from one pen to one computer, I have not yet figured out how to transfer notes to multiple computers because archiving the notes removes them from the pen. The first time I connected the pen, it updated the firmware automatically.
2. DIFFICULT TO PRINT CUSTOM PAPER: Another problem is that you have to buy notebooks and paper from LiveScribe. As far as I can make out, they do not sell A4 size paper. You can print the paper on some Postscript color laser printers. I could not print the paper on Dell 5100cn color laser printer, either with Dell Postscript driver or with Adobe generic Postscript driver but I was successful in printing the paper on Brother MFC-9840CDW Color Laser Multifunction Center with Wireless Interface and Duplex - but only from the Mac LiveScribe. It took a long time - 2 hours - to print 25 pages! Interestingly, the custom notebooks could be printed only in Mac Livescribe, not from the Windows version. The file was 200MB. You have to print one full notebook of 25 pages at time and you cannot print partial notebooks, say pages 1-10. And you can only print total 100 pages (4 Notebooks with 25 pages each). So if you want to use more than hundred pages, you have to archive a notebook before you can do that. That limits active pages to 100 at a time! This is the biggest drawback I found for my purpose because I need to have hundreds of active records at a time where I can write information on multiple days. The same limitation also applies to their notebooks.
3. POOR HANDWRITING RECOGNITION ADD ON MyScribe: My main purpose in buying this pen was to convert handwritten notes to computer text. For that I had to buy a thirty buck add on called MyScript for LiveScribe which does not work so well. Even with clear cursive writing it does not recognize many words and has particular difficulty with technical words, so you have to add each word one by one into the dictionary, and cannot import your Microsoft Word or Pages dictionary. Very tedious process. But it has Auto Replacement, which works like Microsoft Word Autocorrect, e.g. if you write 3m, you can program it to expand to 3 months. That is the work around to poor handwriting recognition.
4. ANNOYING UNTETHERED CAP: Like every one else, I found the loose cap very irritating, it can be easily lost. Are you supposed to keep putting and removing the cap all day long? It is not clear to me why they couldn't make a retractable pen or why the cap cannot be held in place on the back of the pen or tethered with a small cord. There is no clip on the pen to clip it to your pocket either.
5. NO AUTO ON & OFF: If you forget to turn the pen on by pressing the pen will not record anything. I cannot understand why the pen does not have auto on, it should turn on as soon as you start writing on the paper. May be they can fix this with a firmware upgrade.
Overall, it is great for students to record lectures, attorneys, journalists, conference attendees making notes etc. and you can later on refer to the written notes and /or speech. You can write or record speech or do both and link the two. If you use LiveScribe notebooks and Windows software it works fairly well. But if you have a Mac, need to print your own custom A4 paper, or need handwriting recognition, then it is a work in progress and needs lot of bugs fixed before it can become a mainstream product. May be they can have a wi-fi card like Eye-Fi so that notes are automatically transferred to your computer. It sure has the potentiel.
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