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whoosh Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 is a jumbo phone with many little secret tricks here are five neat hidden features you can quickly make an animated gif of anything plain on the screen hover the stylus S Pen to the air command menu wheel go to smart select then up top choose animation record the selected area and you got yourself a quick gift is that bottom navigation bar cramping your big screen style shoo it away by double-tapping the dot on the far left if you want it back just drag your finger from the bottom to pull that bar up and DoubleTap the dot again to keep it there the fingerprint sensor on the back it can be used to open and close the top notification panel you have to first turn this on in the settings but when you do swipe your finger up and down to move the panel up and down translate languages in a snap with the stylus this is Germany's official Oktoberfest website but my German is nicht good so I go to the menu wheel and choose translate tapping this little letter icon sets it to translate entire paragraphs at a time then all I have to do is hover the pen over the text it also will convert other things like currency the pen itself has a hidden trick press and hold the button on the side to use it as an eraser it really helps quickly undo any regrettable mistakes works in a doodle or NES pen supported app like it never happens for more details on the Galaxy Note 8 head to cnet.com you