Livescribe’s Beta launch to smarten Pulse Smartpen
A reason is knocking to make Livescribe’s Pulse smartpen pintsized wittier and smarter. Now revealing the reason, the company has recently released a beta version of its online Application Store, allowing users to effortlessly access information. Users can now lay their hands on 30 paid and free applications which will considerably aggrandize the functionality of the Pulse smartpen.
Leaving the usual execution far behind, the application will enable the smartpen to do much more than its basic functions of recording and linking audio to handwriting. Applications range from productivity and reference tools to games and entertainment to travel and education.
In addition, Livescribe revealed a new 2.0 version of its computing platform. The tool includes software upgrades for the smartpen and the Livescribe Desktop software, permitting users to save, organize and share their notes and recordings from their computer alongside downloading and installing applications.
Well, the inventive and progressive applications will offer users a new experience with the Pulse. Some of its additions subsume ability to read and hear a translated phrase in Spanish, French, German, Japanese or even Korean with quick accessibility.
“The initial set of more than 30 applications only begins to tap the potential of the Livescribe smartpen platform,” commented Byron Connell, chief marketing officer of Livescribe. “We look forward to seeing our community of more than 5,500 registered developers create, develop and distribute the next generation of innovative paper-based computing applications to come.”
In fact, users can facilely browse, search and find paid and free applications. But, users are necessitated to update their software to the new release of Livescribe Desktop Version 2.0 for easy management and installation of the new downloaded applications.
“For a developer, it’s hard to resist the allure of writing applications for a fully functional computer that fits inside a pen,” stated Clarke Stevens, one of over one thousand third party developers who have downloaded the free smartpen SDK just in the last six weeks. “The tools provided for Pulse developers are some of the most simple and complete that I’ve seen for developing and testing embedded applications. This fact makes what was already a fun process into a relatively painless one.”
On downloading an application from the store, users are simply required to dock the smartpen to their computer for its automatic installation. A new quick launch and hot spot feature is further comprised in the corresponding update for the smartpen software. These entrancing features enable faster and quicker access to the applications.
The Livescribe Pulse smartpen will make users fork out $169.96 (approx Rs. 7,911) for 2GB and $199.95 (approx Rs. 9,307) for 4GB. It can be acquired from Best Buy, Staples, Target, Amazon.com, select Apple stores and Apple.com and Livescribe .com. Whereas, for beta application store, users can visit Livescribe/store.com or access it via the Livescribe Desktop software.
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