Unexpected benefit of enabling 'Hovering pen icon'

[GiggityGiggity]

Hey all. When I updated to ICS I noticed an option in pen settings to enable 'hovering pen icon'. Basically when the pen is close enough to the screen it shows a dot on screen (just like a cursor on a pc or mac). I enabled it because I found it really useful when editing text as it allows you to select text far more accurately than with a finger. I've just found out that it has an unexpected bonus.

The phone can sense the pen when it's almost a centimetre away from the screen. Once the dot has appeared on screen you can use it exactly like on a pc, and you can hover over a selection to select it before clicking on it. Many websites (especially ones that use flash) want you to hover the pointer over a section to then be able to select something in that section by clicking on it. On a few websites I regularly visit this has made things much easier. Just thought I'd pass the info on. Hopefully people understand what I'm talking about.

 

[Zenstrive]

Neato. Thanks for the info!

 

[lcsolano]

I've just discovered, and so I came here to post it, but you have already done so

In the past it was so hard to access some menus in websites, those that that work with the mouse pointer over without clicking (MouseOver action).

I think this is a really great feature, I can not imagine how this can be performed in another phone without s-pen.