We brought the S Pen from the phone, to the tablet.

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For example, when a user pulls out the S Pen during a phone call, the S Note application automatically pops up on the screen, allowing users to jot down a quick note.

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Before we dive into the first feature, it's important to note that the Wacom digitizer included in the phone is capable of sensing the S Pen as it hovers over the screen, in the same fashion that we've seen in Bamboo Pads for the last few years.

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Rossman, a former Apple Computer executive who also headed the failed pen-based company Eo, owns 3.5 million Phone.com shares.

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With twenty minutes to go before the phone went on sale, they crammed into a small roped-off pen next to the glass cube that leads customers into the Apple Store beneath the plaza.

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While we were at the booth we loaded up a simple game, and used the pen to control the penguins on the ice, much like flicking angry birds on a phone.

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You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen.

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He also resisted other forms of contemporary technology and convenience, holding out against the cell phone and e-mail and continuing to write his opinions and dissents in longhand, using a fountain pen.

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