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All in One

Started Nov 28, 2015 | User reviews thread
markyboy81 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,778
Re: All in One

bs1946 wrote:

I have hardly found a use for the S-pen other than using it as a keyboard stylus. Unless you're into drawing, there aren't a lot of useful S-pen apps.

For me the S-Pen is very useful for backing up in a Netflix or Hulu video, when you want to rewind a bit to watch a scene again, or if you missed some dialog. Same is true when watching an MP4 video in a browser. The finger does not have sufficiently fine grained resolution. The S-Pen does.

Also, it's quite fun to use the spen in Picsay Pro, where you can photoshop objects into photos and then fine tune using the spen.
Other (less novelty based) uses include accurate copy and paste, signing pdf documents and jotting down stuff. I can't say I use the pen that much but when it's not in use it tucks away so nicely you forget it's there anyway!

Sadly the note 5 had to go back due to a bluetooth issue so I'm back on the note 4 - I'll stick with this for the moment as the only area that it's *slightly* lacking compared to the note 5 is the camera, and in fact the only thing I'd like to see different is to have the note 5 manual mode - the sad thing is samsung could bring this to the note 4 (but won't)

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