What recorder shall I take to the conference? - Olympus WS-450S, LiveScribe Pulse Smartpen or iProRecorder iPhone app

I was fortunate enough to attend FlyingSoloLive at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney this week where I met and listened to some great Australian business people.

The day was made up of mainly keynote presentations listening the experiences of Australian business people, their thoughts and their advice.

I decided to take along three recording devices to see how they would cope with a day of recording and how good the audio quality really was. The devices were:

• Olympus WS-450S digital voice recorder
• LiveScribe Pulse SmartPen
• iProRecorder - Voice recorder app for the iPhone

For the full review of how these performed with sample audio from each head to our main blog site: idictate.com.au

New WS Series Digital Note Takers for Australia Announced by Olympus Voice

Another change in the digital voice recorder range from Olympus Voice Australia is soon to be upon us. In a total revamp of their WS Series range of small, high quality digital note takers the old range is about to be discontinued and replaced with three new recorders. The recorders being, or have been already, discontinued are the:

WS-210S, WS-311M, WS-321M & WS-331M

These recorders which are very popular and used for a range of audio recording from single speaker note taking, interviews, small meetings and focus groups and conference and lecture recording will be replaced by:

WS-450S, WS-550M & WS-560M

The 'S' stands for Stereo, as in stereo recording and the 'M' stand for Music playback and stereo recording. The new models look similar to and operate in the same way as their predecessors with the big chances in these units coming with the memory increases (1Gb, 2Gb and 4Gb respectively) and the addition of a restractable USB connector.

No official release date as yet but they are expected before the end of August 09 in Australia. Also no indication of pricing as I write this blog post.

For a full round up of the new recorders please head to our main blog site: idictate.com.au