The most basic use for the S Pen is to scrawl a note or memo; but those notes and memos can then spring to life. Say you meet a pretty young thing at your pilates class and end up jotting down digits. After waiting the requisite three days — don’t want to look too keen — you can call your new friend by drawing a box around the scribbled number and hitting the call icon.

It’s not as smooth as I’d like, though. Hitting the call icon launches the dialer with the number in it, whereupon you have to hit call again. Clever as this is, there’s still a screen press or two too many, which might put you off your seductive chat once you do get through to your potential new love interest.

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I have a good laugh. I think this is an interesting way to get handwriting work it magic. I would want to use this feature but without the S pen.

Sony Xperia Z1 introducing almost the same feature. You shoot the photo of a book, label, building etc… And you get to search it online.

I remember I was wowed by a Brother AIO printer I bought in 2003. I was able to scan a document and convert it into Microsoft Word. I believe you call it OCR or optical character recognition. It didn’t always work but it was amazing at that time.

This technology is not new and the problem is these companies try to innovate based on the old technology fail miserably to make it work as smooth as butter.

In a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 case, it’s made sense to have two too many screen press. Like I said, the character recognizing technology doesn’t always work. This way, you get to alter the number and then call the right number.

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