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Samsung Galaxy Note 2 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...
Disney Research has developed a capacitive touch screen
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...
South Korean iPhone users turn to sausages as a cold weather 'meat stylus'
Apple and HTC might each be trying to patent a fancy capacitive stylus, but it looks like the good people of South Korea have stumbled on a decidedly more low-tech (and delicious) solution to using their phones in the winter: sausages. Apparently snack sausages from the CJ Corporation are electrostatically compatible with the iPhone's capacitive touchscreen, leading many to use them as a "meat stylus" in the cold weather, rather than remove a glove. And it's not just a joke; apparently South Korean snack sausage sales are soaring.
Galaxy Note 2 will come with stylus
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.