- I'm Andru Edwards and you're watching your life.
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If there's one thing that sets the Samsung Galaxy Note line,
apart from just about every other smartphone on the planet,
it's the S pen.
The digital stylus that Samsung has refined year after
year is highly impressive on Samsung's latest Galaxy Note,
20 Ultra smartphone.
And in this video,
I give you a look at a few of the ways that the S pen
changes the game.
What's going on. Tech squad,
Andru Edwards here.
And as I mentioned today,
we're taking a look at the most unique feature
of the Samsung Galaxy Note lineup.
That being this guy right here, the S pen.
Now I have to admit that as much as I love
the Galaxy Note line as a whole,
and this Galaxy Note, 20 Ultra in particular.
I've always been focused on the hardware power,
and rarely took the time to learn all the things
that the S pen could do,
aside from the typical writing and drawing.
The thing is Samsung's S pen isn't just a writing tool.
It also acts as a navigation device
here on my Galaxy Note 20 Ultra as well.
This year, the SPN has an 80% latency improvement
on the Note 20 Ultra
with a nine millisecond response time
and a 40% improvement on the standard Note 20 when compared
to the Galaxy Note 10 from 2019.
So let's get started with some of the things you can do
with the S pen.
One of the coolest things you can do with the S pen
is take it out when your phone's display is off
and just start scribbling a note down.
No need to power the phone on,
unlock it and go into your notes app.
Just start writing on the screen with your S pen
and your note will be saved.
Another thing you can do is use the S pen for text input.
Now, what I mean by that is
instead of typing on your keyboard,
you tap the three dots on the keyboard
to go into handwriting mode.
From there, you can write out
everything that you want to type,
and it will be translated into typed text.
This works when writing in print,
or even in script or cursive or whatever you want to call
this type of writing.
Aside from changing your written texts into typed text,
the Samsung notes App also has the ability
to change your drawn shapes into perfect shapes.
So your circles, squares,
triangles, rectangles, octagon,
and whatever else you decide to draw will also look perfect.
All right, now let's talk about how your S pen
can be used as less of a pen or pencil,
and more like a magic wand,
starting with navigating the Android interface.
So if you're in an App,
you can hold down the button on the S pen
and swipe left, right.
And then release to back.
You can swipe right left and release
to see your most recently used Apps.
And you can swipe up down and released to go home.
To take a quick screenshot, and you can do a zigzag motion.
And then you can use the S pen to write on your screenshot
before sharing it.
Or you can use smart select,
which will let you do similar,
but you can also extract and copy text directly
from an image
or even record gifts or draw out live messages,
right from your screen.
You can also use the S pen to control the Galaxy Note
20's camera without having to touch the phone at all.
I propped up my phone here to show you what I mean.
With the display off,
just press and hold down the button on the S pen
and you'll get taken right into the camera mode.
From there, just click the button to snap photos.
If you need to switch between the front and rear cameras,
double click the S pen button instead.
Click and hold if you want to take burst photos,
and you can even click and swipe
to go through the different camera modes.
That's not all though.
What about music?
Let's say you're using your phone to listen to music
or watch music videos,
or you've got to connect it to a Bluetooth speaker.
You can use your S pen to control your tunes,
press the button once to play or pause
or double click to advance to the next track.
Swipe left to go back and track,
or right as another way to advance forward.
Once you're settled in on what you want to listen to
swipe up, to increase the volume, and then down,
when you start getting noise complaints.
Now, did you know that you could do all this stuff
using the S pen?
If you're gonna spend the money
on the Samsung Galaxy Note 20,
or especially the Note 20 Ultra,
after taking a few minutes to learn some of the gestures,
I can already see how you can get even more
of your money's worth for the purchase price.
But now I want to hear from you,
if you're a Galaxy Note user, how do you use your S pen?
How often do you use your S pen?
Let me know in the comments below,
and I'll meet you there for further discussion.
Now I've got even more videos coming at you
on the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra in particular.
And we've also been talking about it in depth, on geared up.
If you're not aware of geared up is the weekly podcast I do
each week with Jon Rettinger,
where we cover the world of consumer electronics
and gadgets.
If you wanna check it out,
just search for geared up and your favorite podcast player,
or hit the link down in the description below.
Thanks again for watching as always guys,
I appreciate your support.
I'm Andru Edwards,
and I will catch you in the next video.
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