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what makes a galaxy note a note in a world of large screen competitors one feature stands alone on Samsung's newest phablet it's evolved over successive generations but is it an option worth the heavy price tag I'm Juan Carlos Pegg now for pocket now and here's our note 8 S Pen review brought to you by deeper and the claim is a higher order of productivity thanks to a large display and fine point controls the immediate visual we all create with the stylus is scribbling in a note app now I'm no artist but apparently few other tech bloggers traced Garfield cartoons when they were kids there's quite a bit more going on with this stick however where a note and a Galaxy S can overlap on custom interfaces like a slide-out edge panel Samsung creates a completely unique user interface built all around this point at that point by the way is ultrafine interacting with the screen coding in a way reminiscent of a fine tip pen being a passive stylus without a battery S Pen still doesn't track angle but it is pressure-sensitive we all apparently hate phone screen bezels now but curved displays introduced concerns it's difficult writing on a surface warping away from you so many apps will just build in an artificial border a digital bezel if you will those apps that will let you draw right up to the edge of the screen you're more likely to lose some contact with the digitizer so you're probably not gonna want to scribble there anyway like the note 7 before it this phone and stylus are water-resistant even with the s-pen removed from the silo again bringing a nifty benefit that this is one of the easiest to use when the screen is wet but cool hardware won't mean much if you don't have good software to back it up where last year Samsung streamlined the number of note and sketching apps we are seeing more features applied to this phone in their place from your air command menu users can now specify up to 10 shortcuts this in addition to edge displays and your home screens so no matter how you hold the phone you can get to apps that fit for that kind of usage Samsung Notes is still one of the crown jewel applications showcasing the flexibility of the S and capturing a thought adding to a list or doodling in your downtime it's a well featured service improvements to screen off capture are certainly appreciated giving users up to a hundred pages of space before you even need to turn your phone on unfortunately Samsung notes still often feels like it lives on an island sharing for example you can send a static image but trying to collaborate means saving an s stock which doesn't seem to play nice with my desktop yet again we have to plug one note as a terrific replacement with better sharing options and an interface which makes good use of Samsung stylus s-pen becomes something of a catch-all for the note services without a home elsewhere in Samsung's lineup can just be stapled on to the stick of better screenshot tools sure s-pen though it is nice having a streamlined way to draw on a capture before sending it better foreign language translation of course s-pen first-party jiff creation tools you guessed it s-pen these tools aren't necessarily stylus dependent services the Galaxy s8 has an option to create gifs too but for whatever reason when on the note they get linked to the s-pen a few options tie in really well though folks with accessibility concerns will appreciate quick access to a magnifier that hovers smoothly above your display coloring is a nice way to waste a little time share art projects on Samsung's pen on network and I have to admit that doodling messages is more fun and engaging than I thought it would be especially for working through pretty much any messaging service you might prefer though loading each individual graphic can sometimes lag outside of the software Samsung delivers for the s-pen though this implementation points to one important idea Steve Jobs was not completely correct when he launched the iPhone there are times where finer point control is simply better than your fat finger tip sometimes those situations are frivolous sometimes those moments are productive but the fact remains that only one device properly integrates the experience to deliver such a refined input scheme all too often reviewers are tasked with somehow justifying a device or explaining to people how they should spend their money big screens are no longer a novelty so that's not the hook for a note anymore there is a flavor of power user though who will value the notes ability to perform in nearly any scenario one-handed or two-handed and with the markets best justification for why a user should dedicate both hands to using a phone all hail the s-pen and while your GTD getting to done and running through airports with your thousand dollar pocketable supercomputer shouldn't you also be trying to protect it from scratches while keeping a better grip on it D Brand has a collection of skins and different colors and textures to keep your Note 8 looking sharp head over to D brand calm slash galaxy or click on the link in the description below to customize yours we have more ground to cover on this phone so make sure you're subscribed to this channel for our full Galaxy Note 8 coverage and help us out with the share on your favorite social networks for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos bag now some gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next review