News — stylus

As soon as Samsung saw iPhone’s popularity, it made an iPhone like phone. When it perceived users liked to have dual cores and quad cores in their phones, it started putting them there, never mind whether more cores made for better phones. When if found they wanted higher resolution, it gave them gorgeous 720p screens. And when it would they liked phones with big screens, it started making them bigger and bigger, culminating in the Galaxy Note. The Note was big, it had a 5.3 inch screen, and it was awkward to hold to your ear. And yet Samsung sold...

Smartphone screens seem to be getting better and better all the time. Not necessarily in things like touch sensitivity or touch technology in general, but screens come in true HD and in a variety of sizes. Disney decided that they were going be the ones to take the next step in actual touch technology. Disney Research has developed a screen that can recognise multiple users. Not in the classic sense of taking turns, either. Two people can touch the display at the same time and the screen can tell who is who. This is an amazing advancement in technology and...

Samsung has improved the software to go along with the S Pen too. You can now hover over an email with the pen and see the first sentence of the message, customize what app pops up when you start writing on the screen, and still use Samsung's S Note, a combo note-taking and sketching application. And if you're worried you'd lose the pen, Samsung's come up with a solution for that. The phone will alert you with an alarm sound if the pen has been left behind somewhere.

Samsung Electronics launched its new Galaxy Note tablet in three major markets on Thursday, hoping that a stylus-type pen and split-screen function will stand the new device apart from rival Apple's iPad. The company, facing accusations that it copied the design and some features of Apple's iPad and iPhone, said the Galaxy Note 10.1 would be a "game changer" from rival tablets, on which users usually only view one application at a time. The device can have two apps active on a split-screen, while an 'S-Pen' seeks to solve tablet and smartphones' sometimes clunky keyboard and input functions by allowing users to write and...