You use the Sky with paper printed with a fine grid of dots, which lets the pen capture and digitize what you’ve written and/or drawn. I found the review unit Livescribe provided to be comfortable enough to hold despite its bulk, but its odd cap is surprisingly tough to put on and take off.
As before, the pen is a cigar-like ballpoint with an OLED screen on the side and a Micro USB port for charging. The basic smartpen concept hasn’t changed. If you’ve got a device that Evernote supports - and it supports just about everything - your Livescribe notes, sketches and recordings will just be there once the pen has synced, which it does without your intervention.
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The Sky also introduces a software change which is just as significant: Instead of depending on its own proprietary software, it simply plunks everything into Evernote, the omnipresent note-taking app/service which Livescribe says a majority of its customers already use. It’s introducing a new flagship model, the Sky, and the major improvement to the hardware is that the pen now incorporates built-in wi-fi, eliminating the need to do transfers via USB. Now Livescribe has a smartpen in tune with the times.
And we’ve come to expect that most gadgets can connect directly to the internet, without a computer as a mandatory middleman. These days, busy people of the sort whom Livescribe targets don’t always spend as much time at a PC as they once did they might want to get their notes and audio onto a phone or tablet instead. That’s how you tended to get data off a gizmo in those days.īut an awful lot has happened in five years.
And the fact that you did the syncing with a USB cable and special software (available at first only for Windows, and then the Mac) seemed only natural. Follow Livescribe introduced its first unique smartpen back in 2007, its core feature - the ability to take notes on special paper, with synchronized audio, and then transfer everything onto a computer - was cool.
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