The S Pen of Samsung Galaxy Note series has always been an important symbol of Note mobile phones. After two generations of Samsung Note mobile phone technology accumulation, what will be the upgrade and improvement of S Pen on Samsung's latest flagship mobile phone - Galaxy Note 3? Let's explore it together.  

Let's first take a look at the appearance comparison of the two generations of S Pen. The top is the S Pen of Galaxy Note 2, and the bottom is the S Pen of Note 3. From the appearance, there are not many changes.

The left is Note 2 S Pen, and the right is Note 3 S Pen. In terms of pen tip design, the S Pen in Note 2 is relatively thick, while the S Pen in Note 3 is relatively small. In fact, for writing, it is easy to see where you click when the pen tip is relatively thin, which can further improve the click accuracy of the stylus.

The tail of the S Pen in Note 2 (above) is slightly shaped, and it can only be inserted into Note 2 smoothly according to the correct insertion method. The S Pen in Note 3 (bottom) adopts a positive and negative symmetrical design, so it can be inserted into Note 3 smoothly both on the front and the back. Why is it designed like this? It is estimated that Samsung received too many complaints from Note 2 at that time. When many parents gave Note 2 to their children to play, there were not many cases of children being damaged by violent insertion of S Pen without distinguishing the pros and cons.

The design of function keys is basically consistent.

In addition, the biggest difference of Note 3's S Pen is that it can replace the refill. Five spare refills and pen changing clips will be attached.

It should be noted that among the five refills, there are also two types of refills made of different materials. The first type is a pure white one with high hardness. The second is a soft refill with a bit of translucency. The pen core with high hardness has large friction when writing, so it is easy to close the pen and has a good experience. Soft refills are smoother to write. If you like them, use soft refills. If you like friction, use hard refills. First of all, this writing experience is based on the experience when the editor did not put a film on Note 3. If you put a film on it, you may have different writing experience because of different film materials.

Changing the refill is also very simple. Just clamp the pen head with a pen holder, pull out the whole refill, and then insert the refill you want to change.

When the S Pen in Note 3 is pulled out and the function key is pressed at the top of the screen, it can call out shortcut tools, which include the notepad, cut and paste and other special functions of Note 3. In addition, even if you use the S Pen of Note 2 on Note 3 to press the function key on the screen, you can call out shortcut tools, and the pressure of the brush can still be recognized.

Now that we have a pressure touch pen, let's try this new S Pen to paint on Note 3. The painting application used this time is PS Touch. I have written about this application before. At that time, I also used Note 2 for demonstration. If you are interested, you can go to《 Photoshop Touch 》Watch here.

Due to limited time, Xiao Bian doesn't plan to draw too complicated things. After fixing the line draft, he will paint directly.

By the way, as long as the stylus is close to the screen, the S Pen in Note 3 will only process the touch action of the S Pen and ignore the finger action, so you can rest your hand on the screen when using the painting application. In addition, the touch precision of Note 3's S Pen is much higher than that of Note 2's stylus, and the sensitivity is also very good. The position of the stylus on the screen in the above figure is exactly the same as that on the top of the screen, while Note 2 will be slightly offset.

This is a screenshot in painting. The biggest advantage of using PS Touch is that it is easy to control the canvas, move and zoom in and out at will.

In addition, it can separate layers for painting. Compared with the two or three layers that other painting software can only provide, the ten layers of PS Touch will be very conscientious.

Although it is a mobile version of Photo Shop, it has sufficient functions, and the layer overlay effect and other functions have been perfectly transplanted.

The color is constantly being filled.

There is not enough time. Basically, that's all.

Finally, the effect of the picture is exported. It seems that the hair color is a bit wrong... The color of the mobile phone screen and the display screen is a little different

summary

This time, the new S Pen used in Note 3 has a good painting experience. The newly upgraded S Pen has better writing accuracy and writing feel than the S Pen of Note 2 (the head of Note 2 is very slippery, and the writing feel is general). In addition, the S Pen is much more intelligent than the common touch pen. The touch pen only handles the actions of the touch pen on the screen, In this way, the palm can rest on the screen. In addition, the replaceable spare refills and refills made of two different materials can also meet the requirements of many people for different writing feel. Compared with the setting of Note 2's depleted pen head S Pen, this time the accessories are still very conscientious. The only complaint is that the screen of Note 3 is still too small for painting. If Samsung also uses these new S Pens on the new Note 10 inch tablet later, the use experience will be better.