Today was why S pen is awesome

[natehoy]

Those that say you don't use it.. *try*...

I was the same way for the first few weeks until I started playing with the SPen to figure it out.

My most recent example... I took a photo with my camera of my computer monitor of a phone number I needed on screen for later. Smart selected the phone number in the photo, saved to contacts then dialed ..

The OCR capabilities of this device with the SPen are amazing alone... But this is just a small example of once you actively start using the SPen. Ideas come to mind that you hadn't though of before and things start to make sense.

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Here's an example. I took a landscape photo of my computer screen with your post on it. I then pulled up that picture on my screen and smart-selected it, and hit the "T" at the upper right. Instantly, most of your post was text that I can use anywhere.



There are a couple of OCR errors, but I was able to copy that to my clipboard and with a couple of minor edits I would have had the original text.

This took well under a minute to do.

It's quite literally changed my workflow in meetings. Take a picture of the whiteboard, get the text, cut and paste it into an email. Boom.

 

[beh]

To have the S pen pop up on the Lock Screen make sure that under Settings>Lock Screen the SNote option is checked.

For me with a password locked lock screen I sometimes have to do the hold the S pen button/double tap screen twice.

 

[BarfingMonkey]

When my ear canals itch, S-Pen to the rescue!

 

[goin_nil]

It's quite literally changed my workflow in meetings. Take a picture of the whiteboard, get the text, cut and paste it into an email. Boom.

Great idea! Thanks for sharing.

 

[goin_nil]

When my ear canals itch, S-Pen to the rescue!

Better left un-shared. :-(

 

[juliesdroidsync]

I love using it for Web browsing! On sites that are not mobile friendly, you can accurately click those tiny links without having to zoom in every time you want to navigate to another page... and let's face it, there are plenty of websites that are not mobile friendly.

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