livescribe echo review
I personally use my pen to record initial client interviews in addition to depositions. I'm able using the Livescribe Desktop software to export a recording to some CD and send it to a client to here. However the best feature is its “point and play” technology that allows me to listen selectively to some recording on my pen by touching a thing in my notes. The audio immediately syncs towards the area of the conversation and it has a five second “skip back/skip forward” feature to account for slow writers much like me. I can also listen later to my notes and add more points of interest.
Audio fidelity is amazingly good. The pen has settings for different environments like lectures or office meetings. Even if you only use the default settings you'll be pleased with the output.
Besides being thinner, the new Echo no longer takes a cradle, and attaches straight to a USB port on your Mac (that’s me) or PC.This eliminates yet another gadget I need to lug around in my briefcase.
Livescribe’s special paper should not intimidate any prospective purchaser. First it is possible to print your personal paper. Livescribe suggests that this requires a laser printer, but I have actually done it by having an injet. You need to test the point is whether your printer is compatible that is the way i learned some inkjet printers works.
However users will find Livescribe notebooks to be very affordable. I buy Livescribe ANA-00018 Single Lined 100 Page 5-8 Notebook - 4 Pack making the price per notebook very comparable to ordinary spiral notebooks. Clearly Livescribe is refusing to consider the type of printer manufacturers who make most of their cash on supplies.
There are applications available for the Echo including a text recognition app that provides a 30 day free trial offer. However my handwriting is generally indecipherable to even myself so I have never used it. However the idea is great.
In the universe of Livescribe pens this might be one which should command your most serious consideration. 4GB is definitely an an enormous amount of data and recording. I have not come close to filling 2GBs although I do remove recording from the pen from time to time while maintaining the audio on my Livescribe Desktop.
Livescribe has perfected a product that, like a tool for lawyers, for college students, for physicians, and salesmen, as well a host of others was nearly perfect.