- [David] One of the new Note Eight's most
stand out features,
as with most Note devices, is the pen.
For some people,
it's why they'd choose the Note Eight over the S Eight,
or the S Eight Plus,
and while I think there are other reasons for doing that,
which we can talk about in another video perhaps,
I kind of get what they're on about.
Originally, I didn't think much of the pen,
telling myself things like,
"I'll probably just never use that."
Then a funny thing happened.
I forced myself to use it for a bit
and now,
now, I kind of like it.
So for anyone curious,
here's some of my favorite uses for the S Pen.
First up, live messages.
While they're not that functional,
they are fun.
If you have the messaging app open,
you can pull out the pen and type Live Messages
and you get the ability to select different pens,
draw on a black screen,
and then send it to whomever you are texting as a gif,
or gif,
however you want to say that,
which means unlike similar iMessage fun stuff,
anyone can see it regardless of their device.
You can also change the background color
or just make anything you want the background,
like say, a photo for example,
and then add your own custom doodles on top of it.
Again, good times.
It's also super funny to see people's reactions
when you send them to them
because they don't know what they are, at all.
The next thing I found myself
using a lot is off screen memo,
which is something extremely functional.
The concept is super simple.
If you pull out the pen while the screen is off,
you are able to immediately start writing notes
on that lock screen essentially.
Now, yes, you can take notes on any phone
with opening the note app,
but what I started to realize was this is just
that much faster,
and if I write without basically
caring if anyone else can read it besides myself,
I can write pretty fast, too.
Then it's automatically saved to my notepad
and I don't have to worry about it.
Besides the off screen memos,
I have to just mention normal notes, as well.
And while again you can take notes on any phone,
the pen gives you another input method
which allows you draw much more intricate things
and not just use text.
And while I am the type of person who habitually
can't stand working using a pen and paper,
I always just feel like it's super inefficient
because at some point,
I feel like I'm going to have probably just type it up
after I've written it down,
so why not just skip that step and just
start out writing it?
I do find that certain things like outlining
and brainstorming,
and creative things like that,
I actually do kind of like using a pen for.
There's something about the kinetic nature of it
that is just, I think, conducive, maybe,
to creative things.
I'm not sure, but it feels good,
and since it isn't paper,
it is at least saved and accessible anywhere automatically.
Now besides these, I guess, sort of obvious,
writing and drawing uses for the pen,
there is one use that I found was not that apparent,
but I use it a lot.
There are times when I have to
use a desktop version of a site
in order to get a specific feature on that site
that I might need.
For example, to access reports in the YouTube backend
that aren't necessarily available in the Studio app
for some reason,
or Google Analytics for reports on the site
not in the Analytics app,
Adwords, AdSense, basically all of Googles apps
it feels like, at the very least.
Regardless, if I type request desktop site
when on the mobile site,
and then use the pen I can navigate around
way easier than just trying to zoom in and pinch
and then click on things with my finger,
and elements are moving off the screen, etc.
In addition to this, you can hover over items on the site
to implement the same trigger as hovering with your mouse
in Samsung's browser,
as well as few third-party ones.
Not Chrome though, for some dumb reason.
But that allows you to bring down drop downs,
highlight info, text easier, etc.
And again, not something I merely thought of for the pen
but it does seem to have its place in a world
where apps don't always have the same features
as their desktop sites,
and their mobile sites aren't optimized, as well.
There you go guys.
Those are pretty much my favorite things.
There is one other really dumb thing.
The pen itself has like this little clicker on the end.
It's not a button, it doesn't do anything.
It's just meant to like help you
get it out of the bottom of the phone,
but it's super satisfying to click.
It's like a really expensive fidget spinner.
(pen clicking)
Anyway, that's it.
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