That’s it! It works like a fat-bodied ballpoint pen because, well, that’s what the Livescribe 3 is. You will have no way to connect if you don’t have KitKat/Lollipop and the proper hardware, so be sure to do your research before purchasing. Check your device’s spec sheet to see if it has the right hardware. I cannot speak to how things used to work when the Livescribe 3 was released, but setup on Android was very straightforward for me.Ī quick note: this only applies if you have a phone/tablet running 4.4.2 or newer and with a Bluetooth 4.0 LE radio. There is a simple fix in that you can do those with your computer over the microUSB connection. New pens will require firmware updates, which are quite slow over Bluetooth due to bandwidth limitations. From there, Link should detect the pen, at which point you will be asked to name it and provide a name and email address to help store your items in the cloud. To start with, download the Livescribe Link app on the device you want to pair to. You shouldn’t be surprised that there are tradeoffs involved with smartpens. What is basically the sole competitor to Livescribe, Equil, allows any paper but requires you to clip a receiver onto the page and press a button when you flip to a new one reviews on that product’s usability are decidedly mixed. It’s debatable whether it is necessary, but nobody has managed anything better. I suspect this is the factor that will turn off the most people. You can print out your own, but you still are buying the printer paper and that's an even bigger drag on convenience. You need to have Livescribe paper with you at any point you might want to use the pen and it isn't free. This comes at a cost to convenience and cash. For all the paper in your home and workspace, the Livescribe 3 is a “dumb” pen. The pen only works-and by works, I mean captures digital text-with proprietary “Dot Paper.” This is a big limitation and I don’t want to understate that. If the Livescribe 3 has a catch, this is it. If I am chatting with another researcher and we come across a topic that I know I have written about previously, I can just search my notes for it. Even better, keeping my work in a cloud-based format means I can access my stuff no matter where I am and without knowing in advance that I need it. Note-taking is among the most significant things I do on a daily basis and digitization is key.A lost notebook means information that will be difficult, if not impossible, to retrieve. I am a PhD student when I am not writing for Android Police and, as you might guess, I try to use today’s technology to its fullest in my studies. Computers, clouds, and keyboards make pen and paper seem decidedly outdated. With that said, there are several significant drawbacks with taking notes with the Livescribe 3 that you will want to know about before picking one up.The rise of “smart” everything has left a lot of people caught in between. Overall, I am walking away very impressed with the experience.
We first caught wind of the Android app back in January, its preview was released just a couple weeks ago, and now I will walk you through how the hardware and app play together. Why review it now? Well, with Android’s native support of Bluetooth 4.0 LE and wider adoption of KitKat and Lollipop, the smartpen finally has software support for Android. The new model will retail for $169, but can be had for a tad cheaper for the duration of an Indigogo campaign, which prices the device at $79 and increases in $10 increments as orders are filled.Livescribe released their newest smartpen, called Livescribe 3, about 18 months ago. This means that you no longer need a smartphone or tablet handy to digitize your notes, and can sync digital scribblings later at your leisure. The Equil Smartpen 2 launched this week at TechCrunch disrupt, and it's mostly the same writing device as last year's model, but with one important difference: the pen's notebook sensor can save your notes locally. Now that JOT's rebranded successor, the Smartpen 2, doesn't even need to do that. Rather than requiring writers to buy special smartpen-friendly paper, Equil created a sensor that could be attached to any notebook and synced wirelessly with iOS devices. Much like Livescribe's digitizing pen, it copied all a writer's scribbles to a companion iPad app - but the JOT didn't need a special notebook to do it. The Equil JOT smartpen was a nice evolution on digitally-enhanced writing implements.
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