When you remove the pen from its slot, a menu of mostly pen-compatible apps pops up on the side of the screen.
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These are basic movements many of us take for granted: a tri-pod grip to pick up a pen, or hand-shake grip for business meetings, said Miguelez, who has fitted hundreds of amputees with prosthetic devices.
Next up on the list of hover-friendly additions, you can now use your S Pen to scroll up and down on a page or list.
That would allow Mr Cardoso to whip up public indignation against pampered pen-pushers, argues Tasso Jereissati, the governor of Ceara state and a close ally of Mr Cardoso.
Now the village has a name for his grown-up son, who's rather more versed in the modern age - Technical Pen.
Finally, Samsung has released version 2.2 of its S Pen SDK, which gives third-party developers the ability to beef up their apps with support for hovering, new brushes, special effects and context awareness.
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?
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The Note II has also been given "Air View" -- or the ability to detect the hover position of the S Pen, which opens up a whole world of new UI additions.
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If you give up on tablet writing, you can replace the tip to convert the pen to an old-fashioned roller ball.
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The DuoSense pen offers the return of the lost art of handwriting and together with the true multi-touch solution opens up a whole new world of personal choice for the user in deciding how to interact with their computing devices.
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Out of the box, users will have access to an S Pen-optimized version of Flipboard which enables Air View hover functionality and headline previews from the main tile page (up to three, in our experience).
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For instance, you can hold the pen over emails in your inbox (in the general email app for now, at least) and a pop-up box displays the first few lines.
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