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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Samsung patents a stylus with a microphone and a speaker, could this be the next S Pen?

Samsung patents a stylus with a microphone and a speaker, could this be the next S Pen?: Two Samsung patent applications, recently published by the USPTO, reveal what might be the future of the S Pen, the signature digital stylus of the Galaxy Note device family. It seems that Samsung has researched the possibility to implement communication functionalities to the digital pen by including a microphone and a speaker on it.



According to the patent filings, the next S Pen might allow users to take phone calls and issue different voice commands. Samsung states that this pen "functions as a substitute for a wireless headset" and allows the user "to mount the pen to a shirt pocket ...

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