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I've kept my Note 8 around despite having a new iPhone just for the S-Pen. It is really nice to write on the qwerty keyboard with the stylus, using the swipe f
by poglet 5y ago
I've kept my Note 8 around despite having a new iPhone just for the S-Pen. It is really nice to write on the qwerty keyboard with the stylus, using the swipe functionality. My finger gets tired on the iPhone after a few minutes of usage.
The second reason is probably one of the (my opinion) greatest features that any phone has had: The translation feature of the S-Pen. If you interact with foreign languages (on your phone) which you aren't familiar with - the translate feature of the S-Pen is fantastic.
How it works is you hover the stylus over the foreign word, a little bubble appears on the screen with the original text and translated text. This feature is application independent and the text can be formatted in almost any way - for example exist within a photograph.
On iOS you would need to highlight and copy the next, switch to a translation application, paste it in, then go back to the original application. And this is assuming you can even copy the text, if you can't you need to take a screenshot of the picture, then use the new iOS OCR features - it's a real pain if you want to translate more then once screen.
I am happy to see the S-Pen back and I will consider the Samsung Galaxy again in the future.
- PlanckMeasure80 5y agoiOS can now directly translate. Just long press on the text in any app, even if it’s in a picture or screenshot.
- poglet 5y agoUnfortunately it barley works (unless I'm doing something wrong) I had little success in the following apps testing with both pictures and text where I could: LINE, Daily Chinese, HelloPanda, Firefox (works on text that can be highed only and some images but doesn't work on video thumbnails for example), Mail - doesn't work on text that can't be highed. Safari works on some images and text that can be hilighted but not on text that can't be hilighted. Let me know if there is something I'm doing wrong, I'm desperate to get this working better.