Re:It’s Official: Samsung Has a 10.1 Inch Galaxy Note
by bryanlarsen on Sunday February 26, 2012 @01:36PM
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The Note uses a separate input mechanism for its S-Pen input, which is licensed from Wacom. They could use the capacitive input layer for both finger and pen input, but that would not work as well -- compare Galaxy Note reviews to Samsung Vu reviews.
So the pen is actually adding significantly to the cost of the Note, which is probably why they're shifting the pen-less Tab to the low-end of the market.
Jobs called a pen an 'automatic failure', but he's not Korean, Chinese or Japanese. A pen is a much better input mechanism for Chinese and Korean characters than a keyboard, virtual or no. In North America, the target audience for the Note probably overlaps fairly well with the type of people who buy Wacom tablets for their computer -- a very small minority, but those who do love them.
So the pen is actually adding significantly to the cost of the Note, which is probably why they're shifting the pen-less Tab to the low-end of the market.
Jobs called a pen an 'automatic failure', but he's not Korean, Chinese or Japanese. A pen is a much better input mechanism for Chinese and Korean characters than a keyboard, virtual or no. In North America, the target audience for the Note probably overlaps fairly well with the type of people who buy Wacom tablets for their computer -- a very small minority, but those who do love them.