The original Galaxy Note arrived with a smart stylus Samsung calls the S Pen. Integrated with contextual awareness and native handwriting recognition technology, the S Pen provides a wide range of uses. On the large 5.55 inch multitouch, capacitive Galaxy Note II screen, the S Pen allows you to launch any application immediately through its Quick Commands feature. Simply press the stylus button, swipe up the display, and the Quick Commands feature launches.
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Optical character recognition (OCR) built into the S Pen and the handset’s keyboard means that you can write instead of type out a message. When you pull out the S Pen from its cradle, the keyboard turns into a small box allowing you to write in it. And the native handwriting recognition technology allows for even the sloppiest writer to have their scribbling recognized and translated by the Galaxy Note II S Pen. You can also set audio and visual alarms that notify you when the smart stylus strays a little too far from the handset.
As an educational tool for young children, Idea Sketch teaches while also letting your kids have fun at the same time. With this application, you merely write the name of an object, and it appears in the sketch. Air View allows you to hover the stylus just above the display, and this application is supported throughout the Galaxy Note II. It provides preview information, such as the first few lines of the e-mail, a preview of a picture, and website magnification, allowing you to do more with fewer clicks.
And the smart stylus S Pen also allows you to doodle or scribble on just about anything which you are viewing on the display. When you hold down the button on the stylus and press the tip on the screen, leave it there until you see the screen edges flash. That is how you take a screen shot of what you are viewing, and then you can write, draw and even create original artwork on it. Several pressure sensitivity applications exist on the Galaxy Note II, and that basically means that the more pressure you apply, the thicker the line is that you create with the S Pen.
Out-of-the-box the Galaxy Note II is set up to appeal to right-handers, but if you head over to the Settings menu, you can easily change the orientation to support left-handers. The first phone from Samsung to deliver the Jelly Bean operating system out-of-the-box, the Galaxy Note II phablet delivers a large 5.55 inch True HD display with 720 by 1,280 pixel resolution. The phone provides up to 15.0 hours of talk time from a full battery charge, and is powered by a 1.6 GHz quad core Exynos CPU. 2.0 GB of RAM system memory is on board, as is 16 GB of built-in storage space and a microSD slot.
The Samsung Galaxy Note II can be purchased at a discounted price tag now starting at .
