Ee, where do I start? So many nits to pick, so little space and time....
To start with, if you have anything but junior school handwriting - the kind you did when you first started to do "joiny-up writing" - then forget this. After reading the reviews for this gizmo on Amazon, I thought it just might recognise my scrawl and save me the job of typing up my notes longhand.
Wrong. Oh, so wrong.
What went onto the little A5 pad in hard ink, and what came out on the screen on the pooter was the difference between the Queen's English and Esperanto. Or maybe Russian. Hebrew, perhaps.
It doesn't improve with handwriting recognition software, either...but that leads me to another major criticism...
The software supplied with the thing is only good for two weeks, which is nowhere near enough time to get to really hate it. You can expect to fork out another forty-fifty quid to download the necessary software from a third party company called "Vision Objects", but it works no better than the trial software that comes with the pad and pen.
I am utterly gutted with the thing.
I get up earlier these days so that I can hate it that little bit longer.
Hate, hate, hate.
Grizzle, bleat, moan.
My advice...? Fork out some extra dosh for some kit that really works.
And read as many reviews as possible.
Seriously unfrothy.