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Digital Pen Tour

Time has come to make a small tour among available digital pen solutions.

The Logitech io Pen was the first widespread (maybe the first one with great marketing and design backing) such gadget some years ago.
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!Logitech io Personal Digital Pen

• [Homepage|http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=1553,CONTENTID=6150]
• Price: $99.95
• Memory: “Store up to 40 pages in memory between transfers”
• Pro:
1. Cheap
2. Reviews:
3. [Pocket-lint|http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/review.php?reviewId=123]
4. [Computer Times|http://www.computertimes.com/dec03edchoiceiodigitalpen.htm]

!Logitech io2 Digital Writing System

• [Homepage|http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=1553,CONTENTID=9097]
• Price: $199.95

For some unknown reason the Logitech sites have no “Specifications” page (at least I was unable to find them), so no dimension, weight and memory tags.

!Nokia SU-1B

• [Homepage|http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,5184,5787,00.html]
• Price: $249
• Weight: 38.5g
• Dimensions: 149mm x 23mm x 20mm
• Memory: 1MB (100 A5 pages)
• Pro
1. Standard Nokia charger support
2. Bluetooth
3. Notes sendable via MMS
4. Cons
5. No charger bundled
6. High price
7. Reviews:
8. [big prohardver.hu review|http://mobilarena.hu/rios3_content.php?mod=20&id=640&p=1] (hu)
9. [expansys price|http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=SU-1B]

!IBM CrossPad
This is more like a tablet with standard pens. Discontinued.

!Sony-Ericsson Chapten
An ancient digital pen, not anymore produced.

!Papers:

• [Nokia Digital Paper|http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,5184,5796,00.html]
  ”
  1. Regular paper with specially printed digital pattern
  2. Key to pen’s store-and-send abilities
  3. Each page is remembered by the pen, so you can edit and update them by hand
  4. 2 sizes included in sales package: MMS pad (B7, 88 × 125mm) and notepad (A5, 148 × 210mm)
  5. Coded boxes contain pen commands
     ”
  6. [Smart Paper|http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/productlist/US/EN,crid=1845]
  7. 8.5” x 11” notebook
  8. 8.5” x 11” notepad
  9. [Esselte|http://corporate.esselte.com/]

!Software:

• Vision-Objects [MyScript Notes|http://www.vision-objects.com/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=7]
• Oxford [Easybook M3|http://www.oxfordeasybook.com/en/index.htm]

[EverythingPen|http://www.everythingpen.com/], a UK company selling digital pens and papers along with some introduction.

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