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Samsung Galaxy S Pen vs Apple Pencil 2: The best styli from either camp
Write, draw, and annotate until your heart's content
While your fingers can easily navigate your device’s touchscreen, they don’t give you nearly the precision you get from a stylus. This precision enables you to write, draw, color, and edit documents that would otherwise be too difficult to do with a finger alone. While various stylus types are on the market, the industry standard boils down to the Samsung Galaxy S Pen and the Apple Pencil 2.
Samsung Galaxy S Pen vs S Pen Creator Edition: Battle of the styli
One of these is a great S Pen, the other is an overpriced piece of plastic
The S Pen is one of the most legendary mobile accessories. Many Samsung fans have loved it since it was introduced in 2011, and it’s gotten better in the thirteen years since, gaining Air Command, Bluetooth, and lower latency. It's one of the things that makes the S24 Ultra one of our favorite Android phones.
How to enable Gboard's handwriting input on any S Pen Galaxy device
This developer toggle gives stylus users a reason to ditch Samsung Keyboard
We love to hate Samsung Keyboard. It's understandable, Samsung has included some cool features in its keyboard over the years, but the core aspect of text input leaves a lot to be desired, so users have to choose between useful functionality and a good typing experience from an alternative like Gboard. One of the features I've often missed when switching away from the Samsung Keyboard is automatic handwriting input when the S Pen is detected. Thankfully, a feature Gboard added last year can now be enabled more widely.
Does the Samsung Galaxy S Pen Creator Edition support Air Commands?
With the lack of Bluetooth, many may assume that Air Commands are absent, too
The S Pen has been around since late 2011, and it’s seen many revisions since then. What started as an accessory solely for the Note series phones quickly expanded to tablets and laptops in the following years. In 2021, ten years after the stylus debuted, Samsung released the S Pen Pro, a chunky competitor for the Apple Pencil that was meant to be the S Pen to rule them all.
Does the Samsung Galaxy S Pen Creator Edition work with the Z Fold 5?
Samsung's latest S Pen leaves a few unanswered questions
The S Pen has been a hallmark of Samsung's product range for nearly 13 years, and it's improved a lot in that time. The latency has been reduced to almost imperceptible levels, the Note 2 added hover capabilities, and recent generations utilize Bluetooth to make the stylus double as a remote. When Samsung added S Pen support to the Galaxy Z Fold 3, foldable phone fans rejoiced at the S Pen's compatibility with the pocketable tablet. When the S Pen Creator Edition was released alongside the Galaxy Tab S9, many foldable users were excited to try it out, but it wasn't meant to be.
Is the Samsung Galaxy S Pen Creator Edition waterproof?
How worried should you be if your stylus gets dunked?
Alongside the Tab S9 family of tablets, Samsung dropped the latest iteration of its S Pen, the Galaxy S Pen Creator Edition. This passive stylus supports pressure and tilt functions and is well-positioned to oust those vying for its stylus throne.
Does the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE come with an S Pen stylus?
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE is a versatile device, but does it maximize its potential and include an S Pen stylus?
In an effort to appeal to what its users truly want, Samsung produced the FE (Fan Edition) line of smartphones, tablets, and earbuds. Available at competitive pricing, devices like the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE are a balance of function and cost, ensuring you get the features you need from the best Android tablets but aren’t paying for what’s perceived as bloat.
The Galaxy S23 Ultra is the third S-series phone compatible with the S Pen and the second equipped with one out of the box. The Pen needs to be small to fit inside your phone, but that also makes it easier to lose. No matter how careful you are, some people will inevitably misplace the stylus. If that happens to you, what comes next? Thankfully, arranging a replacement isn't difficult.
From the original Galaxy Note to the latest Galaxy S23 Ultra, the S Pen is one of the most useful parts of Samsung's ecosystem, but it isn't perfect. There are some Samsung devices it doesn't work with, along with any product from a different company, and they can also be easily lost.
Does the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra come with an S Pen?
Samsung's top-end tablet is elevated by the S Pen - but does one come in the box?
Samsung has just released its new lineup of tablets in the form of the Galaxy Tab S9, Tab S9+, and the top-end Tab S9 Ultra — each with unique displays, features, and prices. But what's not different is support for the S Pen across the entire lineup.
Does the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 come with an S Pen?
Or do you have to pay extra for this excellent accessory?
The Galaxy Z Fold 5 is Samsung's latest and greatest big-screen foldable phone, and like last year's model one of the standout features is support for the S Pen stylus. The Fold 3 was the first of Samsung's foldables to support the S Pen, but it didn't include the stylus in the box, and neither did the Fold 4. Instead you had to buy it separately, and unfortunately not much has changed in that regard.
Samsung just fixed the Galaxy S23 Ultra's most annoying S Pen bug
The S Pen should connect seamlessly once again
When a new phone comes out, it's almost expected that initially you'll encounter a few software bugs that snuck past quality testing. Thankfully, the recently announced Galaxy S23 Ultra has, in my case, been the smoothest new-phone experience I've ever had. Still, it hasn't been a 100% perfect time for everyone, though, with some users facing connectivity issues with the built-in S Pen that leaves many of its features unusable. Thankfully, a fix is now available, and it only requires an app update.
Does Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 come with an S Pen?
The Galaxy Z Fold 4 doesn’t get an S Pen in the box, but you’re not without options.
With the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 officially unpacked, some burning questions arose concerning rumors that emerged in the months prior. One is whether the tech giant's next-gen book-style foldable would not come with an S Pen in the box. Unfortunately, it won’t, but it’s not a deal-breaker, though.
Google is making Chrome more stylus-friendly for text input with Android 13
Thanks to a little help from Samsung
You know how school likes to throw a bunch of group projects sat you sometimes? Well, you could say Android and Chromium (from which ChromeOS, the Chrome browser, and other web browsers) essentially are just big ol' group projects. Thanks to Google, their open-source nature has brought together all sorts of features from all kinds of contributors. Samsung is probably the biggest one and it seems like we're about to get another feature courtesy of the company in time for Android 13 — this one should add marvelously to its advertised tablet friendliness.
11 tips, tricks, and apps to get the most out of Samsung's S Pen on the Galaxy S22 Ultra
It's more than just a stylus
The S Pen has been a cornerstone of Samsung phones and tablets since the release of the original Galaxy Note in 2011, and while the Note branding is all but dead, its legacy lives on in the Galaxy S22 Ultra and Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 series.
Pre-order a Samsung Galaxy Book2 and get a free curved gaming monitor
Sleek laptop with a bonus beefy screen
Alongside its new Galaxy A-series Android phones, Samsung is opening up pre-orders for its Windows-powered Galaxy Book2 laptops and 2-in-1s which it introduced at MWC. The doorbusters period is opening up with a big bang and a ton of free monitors.
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra might solve the S21 Ultra's S Pen problem
It's rumored to come with an integrated Pen holder
We all know that Samsung hasn't released new Note phones this year, instead passing the S Pen compatibility to the Galaxy S21 Ultra, complete with an ultra-ugly stylus storage solution. It's already mostly clear that Samsung has completely given up on the Note series in favor of its new foldable phones, but for those of us who aren't ready to let go of S Pen support in a more traditional form factor, the upcoming Galaxy S22 Ultra might have something nice up its sleeve. According to noted leaker Ice Universe, the S22 Ultra might come with the signature integrated S Pen holder known from the Note lineup (via GSMArena).
The new S Pen Fold Edition sort of works with older Samsung devices
S Pen Fold Edition? More like S Pen eraser
The new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 was just announced, debuting as the first folding phone with stylus support for the brand-new S Pen Fold Edition. With this re-imagined S Pen, one of the questions I've been asked a lot is whether the Fold Edition will work on non-foldable devices. Well, it sort of does.
The $1,800 Galaxy Z Fold3 doesn't come with a charger
But if you can afford to buy it, does it matter?
How does a manufacturer fill a product box? Does it do so with the consumer in mind where everything required for a rich and full user experience is included? Or does frugal intent take over, nickeling and diming accessories like a wall adapter or a stylus in order to recoup margins missed by pricing your third series of foldable phones at their lowest prices yet? For the Galaxy Z Flip3 and Fold3, it seems Samsung is counting on the latter's resulting wow factor beyond all else as its leading motive.
Meet the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Flip3: The crown jewel and the new mainstream
Will you buy a foldable phone now?
Samsung has christened its third generation of mobile phones with folding displays. The debut of the Galaxy Z Fold3 phablet also comes support for an S Pen for the first time in the series while the clamshell-styled Flip3 brings plenty of flexing display surface for the lowest price offered yet, at least from this company. This refresh also introduces an even clearer divide in sorting out what type of consumer is meant to buy which device.