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If you see a stylus! They're doing it wrong!

twospirits

twospirits

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"If you see a stylus! They're doing it wrong!"

Ah yes, the infamous quote by the late Steve Jobs. :rolleyes:

Yet, in the article below they show a S-Pen breakdown and it's actually quite impressive to see what is inside of it. (mind you that is the first generation S-pen.)

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They also explain that many others do not take the innovated approach of putting so much in a stylus design.

Pocketnow: Why is Samsung the only company investing the stylus?

TS
 
twospirits said:
"If you see a stylus! They're doing it wrong!"

Ah yes, the infamous quote by the late Steve Jobs. :rolleyes:

Yet, in the article below they show a S-Pen breakdown and it's actually quite impressive to see what is inside of it. (mind you that is the first generation S-pen.)

s-pen-anatomy.jpeg


They also explain that many others do not take the innovated approach of putting so much in a stylus design.

Pocketnow: Why is Samsung the only company investing the stylus?

TS
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Makes complete sense. It's what sold me on considering the note 2, just by trying it on the note 1 and tab 10.1. Then watching reviews of others writing with just as bad penmanship as me... Sold!
 
Makes complete sense. It's what sold me on considering the note 2, just by trying it on the note 1. Then watching reviews of others writing with just as bad penmanship as me... Sold!
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I've tried deliberately making my handwriting bad and it has to be REALLY bad for it not to convert to text.
 
I've had a Note 1, and I'm now on the Note 2. Less than a year of using an S-Pen enabled device, and I can confidently say that to go back to a finger-only use device would be a huge leap backwards.

With my N1 I'd say I used the S-Pen around 40% of the time, now with the N2 it's about 85%. If I take my phablet out with the intention of using it for more than 2 minutes, the S-Pen comes right out as well. It keeps the screen clean. It slides effortlessly. But most importantly, it affords functionality and accuracy that fingers simply never could.

In my personal opinion, Steve Jobs was a great salesman, but many of his ideas and statements were ridiculous, for example, the statements he made regarding screen sizes and styluses. These ideas and statements only worked and were believed with him selling them.

Samsung is proving him very wrong in many respects one device at a time.
 
Well Steve Jobs is like any door to door salesmen, trying to get the foot in the door and then command you with his slick marketing. At times he hit the mark at times his own foot ended up in his mouth.

Case in point:
The stylus comment mentioned above and the mini iPad comment where he said that he was opposed to the idea of a 7 inch tablet. To only go months later with the idea after other manufacturers were cornering that size market.

All I know is that the more you tighten your grip the more they slip through your fingers.

Each and every day, you see signs that show they were wrong from the get go. No phones bigger than 3 inches, no miniature ipads, reversal of spring back function patent, and soon I wouldn't doubt they will come out with a stylus or in their imaginary revolutionary textbook call it, the iPen.

TS
 
twospirits said:
Well Steve Jobs is like any door to door salesmen, trying to get the foot in the door and then command you with his slick marketing. At times he hit the mark at times his own foot ended up in his mouth.

Case in point:
The stylus comment mentioned above and the mini iPad comment where he said that he was opposed to the idea of a 7 inch tablet. To only go months later with the idea after other manufacturers were cornering that size market.

All I know is that the more you tighten your grip the more they slip through your fingers.

Each and every day, you see signs that show they were wrong from the get go. No phones bigger than 3 inches, no miniature ipads, reversal of spring back function patent, and soon I wouldn't doubt they will come out with a stylus or in their imaginary revolutionary textbook call it, the iPen.

TS
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LOL...and they'll market it to where people will think it's "genius" and the Apple addicts will eat it up like it's the best thing since sliced bread.
 
iPen, iSword, iMark, iCrap I already have those covered, sorry you were a little bit too late buddy. :p I'm just waiting for Apple to contact me to either give me my millions for the name or sue me for millions lol

TS
 
It sounds pathetic, but my thumbs get tired. I love the thought of being able to use the pen instead of thumbs constantly.
 
twospirits said:
"If you see a stylus! They're doing it wrong!"

Ah yes, the infamous quote by the late Steve Jobs. :rolleyes:

Yet, in the article below they show a S-Pen breakdown and it's actually quite impressive to see what is inside of it. (mind you that is the first generation S-pen.)

s-pen-anatomy.jpeg


They also explain that many others do not take the innovated approach of putting so much in a stylus design.

Pocketnow: Why is Samsung the only company investing the stylus?

TS
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So what I gathered from that article is that the S-Pen doesn't have a battery. The Galaxy Note 2 creates an electromagnetic field that powers the S-Pen when it's in close proximity (I.e using the hover feature) of the device. I thought that was pretty cool since I always wondered how the GN2 was able to register S-Pen's hover feature and button if there was no battery/electricity.:)

What this also means is that if pocket your GN2 without putting the S-Pen back, there's an low level electromagnetic field emmiting around your "little guys". I'm not sure how harmful that can be over time if you constantly do that.;)
 
BTW I wondered (before seeing the picture) what went on inside the S-Pen and how it was powered. Now I know , it reminds me of Arthur C Clarke's Third Law
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
 
vincentallen2 said:
What this also means is that if pocket your GN2 without putting the S-Pen back, there's an low level electromagnetic field emmiting around your "little guys". I'm not sure how harmful that can be over time if you constantly do that.;)
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The force is strong with them two. :)

All joking aside, I really do not think the electromagnetic field would be that big of a deal to cause any damage. Now if you start peeing and an image hovers over the toilet bowl then I would start worrying.

TS out
 
twospirits said:
The force is strong with them two. :)

All joking aside, I really do not think the electromagnetic field would be that big of a deal to cause any damage. Now if you start peeing and an image hovers over the toilet bowl then I would start worrying.

TS out
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Or a green fairy starts hovering around...oh wait, that's absynth.
 
twospirits said:
The force is strong with them two. :)

All joking aside, I really do not think the electromagnetic field would be that big of a deal to cause any damage. Now if you start peeing and an image hovers over the toilet bowl then I would start worrying.

TS out
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drexappeal said:
Or a green fairy starts hovering around...oh wait, that's absynth.
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...or if Steve jobs appears out of no where wearing an all black leather suit asking you to join the dark side, then you've got a big problem :D
 
twospirits said:
The force is strong with them two. :)

All joking aside, I really do not think the electromagnetic field would be that big of a deal to cause any damage. Now if you start peeing and an image hovers over the toilet bowl then I would start worrying.

TS out
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Not to continue to send this thread down a bad road, but you have officially ruined the word S-Pen.
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on Samsung

I expect no responses to this post, please!
You do the math. Replace the hyphen with Apple's favorite letter of the alphabet and then unscramble.
 
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