But Samsung had been working on it, and in 2011, the first generation Galaxy Note and the S Pen were introduced. There was always a need for a input method, but the technology at the time just couldn’t support it enough. When the switch was made to a capacitive touch screen with glass screen, which doesn’t recognize a stylus, the concept of stylus for mobile devices just disappeared, even though the role of the pen didn’t. When mobile devices had resistive touch screens, people did not feel the need for a separate stylus for their device because it could sense input from pretty much every object, whether it was a finger or a pen. And most likely, one of the first things you wanted to find out about the Galaxy Note 4 is what the new S Pen is all about. Follow Al on Twitter everything from CIO.com on Twitter Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn.If you were or are a user of one of the Galaxy Note series, you are probably aware of the difference the S Pen makes. The Galaxy S4 Air View features let users swipe their hands across device displays to answer calls, skip audio tracks, navigate through browser pages and photo albums and more much, without the use of a stylus.Īl Sacco covers Mobile and Wireless for CIO.com. Samsung’s Galaxy Note II device has some gesture-based Air View features, but users need to employ the Note II “S Pen” stylus. Two more new and unique Galaxy S4 features are Air View and Air Gesture. Galaxy S4 Air View and Air Gesture Samsung Galaxy S4 Air View and Air Gesture You can turn off both features if you’d rather not use them. I haven’t used Smart Scroll or Smart Pause for more than a few minutes during a demo at the device launch, but it worked well in my limited tests. Smart Pause also restarts the video when users look at their displays again. Galaxy S4 Smart Pause technology determines when a user looks at on-screen video and then pauses when the user looks away. But the GS4 takes the technology a bit further. The Galaxy SIII smartphone packs a feature that can determine when a user is looking at the display so the screen doesn’t power down while it’s in use. Smart Scroll lets users scroll up and down screens and through pages by simply tilting their Galaxy S4 devices without ever touching the displays. Two of the coolest and most innovative new features in Samsung’s Galaxy S4 smartphone are the Smart Scroll and Smart Pause navigation features. Samsung Galaxy S4’s New Navigation Features S Health also integrates with a number of additional related accessories from Samsung, including a wireless Body Scale and a wearable Heart Rate Monitor (HRM). And online health boards and other charts help track progress toward health goals. S Health measures users’ custom environmental-comfort levels using temperature and humidity sensors built into the Galaxy S4. Not unlike the popular Fitbit service, S Health track steps, recommends health activities and exercise, lets you monitor caloric intake and weight levels and much more. S Health is a health-tracking and monitoring service designed to let Samsung users get or stay healthy using a number of smartphone-based tools. Samsung’s S Health service isn’t brand new, but it’s new to Galaxy smartphones in the United States. The idea is to show the person taking the image or video along with the video begin captured. The front-facing camera is used to capture images and video, which can be displayed in a small window over the image or video taken by the rear camera. The Galaxy S4’s unique new Dual Shot Camera feature lets users take advantage of both the device’s 13MP rear-facing camera and 2MP front-facing shooter to simultaneously capture images and video. Here’s a break quick breakdown of the coolest and most unique Samsung Galaxy S4 features and functionality. Like the Galaxy SIII, the brand new GS4 packs some valuable and truly unique features. The Galaxy S4 promises to be another impressive high-end smartphone from Samsung, and it’s being released just 10 months after its hugely-popular predecessor, the Galaxy SIII. (Read GS4 pricing and release details for U.S. wireless carriers this week announced plans to release the much-anticipated, Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone before the end of April, along with a few additional smaller carriers.
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