With the Note 8.0, Samsung is also ushering in a couple of new developments on the apps front, in addition to the new version of Flipboard. In addition to the Flipboard app, the hovering already works with file folders, email, gallery views of photos and videos, a spokesperson notes, and it will also work with more apps in the future, as developers upgrade them to recognize and respond to the S Pen’s proximity to the screen. But the hovering pen - whose pin of light needs to rest for a brief moment to select an item - could be another way to select what you want to see and do. For example, one of the annoying issues with touchscreens are accidental clicks, such as those made on ads when you are trying to navigate around an app.Ĭompanies like Google are introducing ways of reducing accidental clicks others are even playing around with the touchscreen to de-sensitize them for those with less precise fingers. Yes, you can argue that this is more of a gimmick than a useful element at this point: why, exactly, do you need to hover the pen over the over a tile when it’s just as easy to tap and select? And isn’t the point of the touchscreens that you can “touch” them? But I can also see how this could become more useful as the feature develops and gets used elsewhere. The first of these is a new version of the Flipboard social newsreading app, where users can select and expand a tile by hovering the pen over a selection. And the Air View feature, where users can initiate previews by hovering their pen over something without touching the screen, is now getting expanded to third party apps. Samsung’s S Pen stylus has been upgraded to work both on the touchscreen of the Note 8.0 as well as with the physical navigation buttons, and Samsung is also extending the functionality of the pen in other ways.
The extra features show that Samsung sees improved services and content this as key to improving its market share in the tablet space. At the same time, Samsung is also introducing a few new services and features - including expanded hovering capabilities and more apps, which it hopes will also help it gain more consumer ground against the world’s biggest tablet maker. The Galaxy Note 8.0 - the newest device in Samsung’s many-sized range of tablets, unveiled today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona - has just managed to trump Apple’s iPad Mini in the small tablet category with one-tenth of an inch more of screen space (more on the device in our hands-on).
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