Digital Pen Reviews

Just like email digital pens could revolutionize our everyday lifes.  The technology has been around for around 50 years and people have used them in the past for mapping and other technical operations. Now they are making the crossover into the retail market. These pens are well known for their precision. Some of them are: Echo Smartpen, Capturx for OneNote and Pulse Smartpen. Some others like Mobile Digital Scribe, have a recording technology and docking as well. Many of them convert the data into text and then that text can be imported to Word. It can also be imported into an email. Some others even record an audio and then transform it into text. The electronic pens are quite useful for journalists, business people and college students. There are a lot of pens manufactured by Smartpen, dedicated to students. There are also specially made pens for children.
What to look for in digital pen reviews

Usability

The pens must be very easy to use, just like normal pens. They have to perform complex tasks with ease.

Feature Set

One must see whether the pen has a good method of transmitting hand written words and other illustrations to computer. There are some pens that have OCR – state-of-the-art capabilities.

Performance

The pens must be easy to write with and encourage performance.

Ease of Setup

The setup has to be straight forward and understandable.

Help/Support

FAQ and other elements must be included as well in order to help the consumer.

Emails, instant messaging and other capabilities can also be included there in the set. So pick the digital pen reviews that better fit your needs.

An intelligent note pad but for some people with small hands a bit too thick, in addition, you have to get used to it. Just like learning any new device that you write with.At first sight the spiral notepad looks completely normally like every other notepad. When taking a closer look one finds several functions which are are imprinted at the lower edge. When you touch the Smartpen the intelligent functions start and stop. An internal memory of 2 GByte provides for approximately 200 hours audio recording and thousands of note pad pages. The administration of the notes is possible with Windows and Mac but you do have to download software. After the following registration you get a 500 MByte on-line storage account from LiveScribe, you can of course store audio and text but audio files take up a lot more space. There is a usb docking station with a magnetic pin plate. All and all a good value for the money. We think amazon is the best place to get a digital pen, as you can see below there are offers starting well below the sugested retail price.

The Dane-Elec Z-PEN digital pen contains a nice sensor that can make it clip on the paper similar to the model IOGEAR’s Mobile Digital Scribe. This pen has the nice feature that the sensors double as flash drives and this means you can store the files without problems. This includes music.

Usability

Dane-Elec-Z-PEN An instruction booklet is highly imported and also all the information you might get. Also, it is very easy to save notes with that on MyNotes file as NOTE0001.eli. We highly recommend you also to read the manual entirely.

Feature Set

The manufacturers of the Dane-Elec Z-PEN say that they can allow you to download the files on to a public terminal or library. But when you do that you must install that software on the computer and then open the .eli files. But sometimes this can be problematic because not all public computers allow you to change their programs or add new ones.

Also, turning on the device sensor can be problematic. Also, sometimes if you do not do anything with it for 10 minutes it will automatically shut down. The device will go on a pause mode. But some models allow you to return to writing mode just by touching the surface. This brand of pen has OCR which means optical character recognition which means it will convert the text you write by hand into digital text. The pen also allows you to transfer the text automatically to MS Word.

Not to mention the fact that you can connect the pen to the computer and use it as a mouse. Also you get a mini ballpoint tip.

The Performance

You can easily store the files on the drive and include music and videos as well. The pen can record the writings with A4 margin with 8.27 x 11.69 inches. It is basically the standard piece of the 8.5 x 11-inch paper.

The pen has to be ergonomic and have a rubber grip. It is very easy to drop the pen while writing and it is hard to keep it in the hands when you are busy writing. So grip is important.

The Livescribe 4 GB Echo Smartpen has been launched in July 2010 and it is the next generation of the product launched in 2008 by Pulse Smartpen. The pen has a microphone as well and a sleek shape. It has a rubber grip and many other features. It is one of the top choices for pens.

Usability

Echo Smartpen The Echo pen is so easy to use. It has a nice interactive way of install and will guide you through the process. The icons are easy to understand as well.

Features

Many reviews say that this pen is different from the others because of the built in recording technology and the microphone. Taking notes is also easy to do. It is useful if you are for example in a meeting and you have to transcribe the comments word by word.

If you use the recorder you will obtain higher efficiency. The recording device is simply activated by tapping the record icon.

But the recording of the session is optional. If you do not want it you can mute it. The model costs around $180 and has 8GB. The pen has many apps also games and educational tutorials for free. The apps can be taken from the online store. The OLED screen is also useful the new include the organization of the pencasts in files or notebooks.

Also for this pen there are many accessories available like surround microphones and ink refill in multiple colors. There are also notebooks with special paper.

Performance

Getting the pencasts from your computer is easy. The Anovo technology helps. You can choose to charge the pen or better yet it is charged automatically when you sync with computer.

The Echo’s oval shape is also amazing and it is quite stylish.