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Summary: Sunshine
Review: The device does everying as advertised, but there is much room for improvement. Just a few little irritations that detract from an otherwise good product:
(1) It requires an external power supply [included] that is just another...accessory and unnecessary weight to be added to the road warrior's laptop bag; why couldn't they have tapped off the USB? You cannot download your data w/o the power supply.
(2) The cap does not attach to the top of the pen! Poor design!
(3) The depth of user information is thin; e.g. to edit a sketch one needs a drawing editor. What could be the marginal cost to include a simple editor to eliminate unwanted lines, for example?
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Summary: Watch out gimmick - the notebook is expensive.
Review: The pen itself works great exactly the same way as ads. Somewhere I read that a xerox copy of included notebook page works. But I find it does NOT. Copied paper has a lot of flaw parts, so you will lose some parts of what you write. The notebook is expensive. Here 3 pack of notebook is around $25. At other place, the price is similar.
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Summary: Very useful for storing and emailing your notes
Review: This is a great pen for placing and organizing your notes on your PC. You can even attach your meeting notes to your meeting placeholder in MS Outlook and view them from Outlooks webmail. It's a tad bulky but you quickly get used to it. Battery life is superb. I took three days of notes without needing a recharge.
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Summary: Great so far...
Review: This pen does exactly what it says, it records your notes in digital form. It does this exceptionaly well. I don't mind that it doesn't support bluetooth because I don't have any other bluetooth devices. The pen has a very comfortable feel. It's not too heavy or too light. It just feels comfortable. The only negitive so far is that they don't have a large variety of paper (yet). Although, I was able to make a copy of the paper with a standard copy machine, and it seemed to work just fine. I highly recomend this product for anyone that take lots of notes, or sketches. It works great!
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Summary: Works like a charm! Great for technophobes and techno-pros!
Review: This pen functions superbly! Write just like you normally do. You don't have to change anything about the way you write (such as speed, angle, etc.). When you are done, put a checkmark in the bottom right hand corner of the page. The pen will vibrate to confirm that it knows you are through with that page. You can store up to a total of 40 pages before you need to dock your pen into its cradle to offload the data. The docking process is completely automated. Just dock the pen, and it automatically saves all your notes on your computer in easy to load files. You can then load-up each page, and even copy-and-paste certain portions of what you've written into Microsoft Outlook (or any other email program). The battery is rechargeable, so you never have to buy batteries. The size is fine and completely manageable. The pen's body has the thickness of a highlighter. It has a fine tip so you can write just like you do with a regular ballpoint pen. The special IO paper is inexpensive to buy, or if you prefer, you can just photocopy the paper and save money. (That works too.) I have not used the optical character recognition feature, so I cannot comment on it. This product is great if you don't want to bring attention to yourself at a meeting, but you still want your notes accessible on your computer, so that you can read them later or email them to others. This pen is truly revolutionary and functions great. I recommend it very highly to both technophobes and techno-pros!
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Summary: Fine if you do one thing at a time
Review: This pen is fine if you do one thing at a time and one page at a time. However, if you work on multiple tasks on different sheets of paper, forget it. You will spend almost as much time merging documents so that you can recreate the pages that you have in front of you. Also, there is an option to delete the files that were used to create the merged sheet. It does not work. Be prepared for one file for each sheet. Overall, this is not as good as the crosspad. Also, forget the character recognition. I printed as carefully as possible and it was only accurate about 10% of the time.
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Summary: Very Nice
Review: This pen is outstanding in terms of ease of use. You just write, put the pen in the cradle and all your notes are in digital format. However, the paper is a bit of a drawback, in the sense that you need special paper, but its not that expensive any way. I've been waiting for a long time for a product like this, I think logitech is on the right track.
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Summary: Amazing, Congratulations Logitech
Review: This product is the ultimate product to finally succeed in converging the hand writing world with the digital world. I love it. I also understand that it is new and paper will proliferate and become more readily available plus with the likes fo the PC tablet etc, handwriting recognition will get better with names like Microsoft behind it. I am waiting anxiously for my Franklin Covey Digital Organizer. This will be a big success. Finally, I can do what I like to do, use pen and paper; my PDA was stuffed in my drawer months ago!!! Thank you Thank you!!!!
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Summary: Compared to "Penpower TrueInk"?
Review: This product looks like a brand new idea. However, this idea has already been introduced in Asia long ago. Last year, a new product, "Penpower True Ink" has hit the market. Anyone who is interested in this product can simply do a google search. Compare these 2 products, the advantages of "io" is its independence and ease for carrying anywhere. But the hidden charge for the electronic paper is kinda "tricky", as Logitech doesn't mention much about it. At the same time, with TrueInk, real people just use real paper. It also has OCR to translate the handwriting into typing. But the problem is it's still considered as an input advice. That is, you gotta have computer aside while using it. The USB cable is long enough to give you some flexibility. I think soon there will be cordless USB cradle for it like the one for "io". The company is also expecting blueteeth tech will lead it into a new era.
Bottomline is I would like to see the combination of these 2. But, unless you just wanna get something cool, it's still a bit risky to use "io" in a daily basis.
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Summary: Easy to use - good to have
Review: Well this item certainly have a place on the market. Everyone can use it and most peple have an easier time using a pen than a keyboard. It certainly feels more modern to write with a pen than hammer on a keyboard.
Nothing negative to say about it so far...
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