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Sky, the new smartpens sync with Evernote, the popular Internet-based notetaking and storage service, rather than with the user's computer. And they typically connect to Evernote directly through their built-in Wi-Fi radios

near a hotspot, their Sky pens will begin syncing their notes as soon as they stop recording them.

the new pens is that they - and the notes they record - are no longer tethered to an individual computer

Sky pen owners can send up to 500 megabytes of data for free from their smartpens. That's about 70 hours worth of recordings or 10,000 pages of notes

The two companies have built into Evernote a Livescribe player that allows users to see and hear their notes at the same time

Evernote arranges the notes by page in their notebook, but when you click or tap on the page, the Livescribe player will collect and display all the pages of notes from that particular recording.

the service scans them for recognizable characters and words so users can search them

has several shortcomings

the pen is married to Evernote. You can't choose to sync your notes with any other service

Another limitation of the Sky pen is that it can be slow to transfer recordings

All Livescribe pens allow users to replay audio recordings by simply tapping their pen on their written notes

you have to use them with company approved paper

does allow users to print out paper with the patterns on it, but if you want to use a notebook, you have to choose one approved by the company