When the new S Pen is removed from the Galaxy Note II, it automatically launches the S Pen menu, which opens a new home screen that allows one-touch access to most used S-Pen applications.
ENGADGET: Samsung Galaxy Note II to land 'by mid-November' on all major US carriers
Finally, Polaris Office lets provides robust word processing, spreadsheet and presentation capabilities, while S Pen support makes it a snap to mark up and annotate documents.
In other words, it's now just a matter of holding the pen directly above the top or bottom of the scrollable screen.
As such, I'm eyeing up a Wacom tablet and using the pen input to mouse around -- but do you think it's a good idea?
ENGADGET: Ask Engadget: Should I replace my mouse with a graphics tablet?
The S-Pen is so precise it's inspired a whole host of new apps and we believe it will change the way people use tablet devices.
ENGADGET: Samsung adds more S-Pen friendly apps for British Galaxy Note 10.1 users
"It's about a redundant postmaster who meets an heiress of an international pen-palling agency, " said Mr Langdon.
We suppose it shouldn't come as a revelation that the second Note's S Pen and Wacom digitizer have more in common with the Note 10.1 than the original Note.
Crowdsourcing, unhitched from human or editorial intervention, becomes the search engine-based object of our affections, and it's no surprise that Google takes more than a few hits from Lanier's pen.
IT'S A QUESTION many grapple with in the digital age: to indulge in the pleasure of putting pen to paper or to settle for the convenience of digital?
It's similar in size and shape to the company's Galaxy S Pen Holder Kit, which serves as a sleeve for the standard-issue Note S Pen, but Bluetooth functionality, along with a microphone and tiny speaker, enable the lightweight plastic contraption to double as a wireless headset -- sure to come in handy with the SIM slot-equipped international Note 10.1 flavor.
应用推荐