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Comment by dangus

8 days ago

I’m just imagining myself pulling out the stylus on the train/plane, dropping it, and watching it roll away forever.

Millions of owners of Samsung devices somehow manage to not do that every day.

  • I’ve never seen anyone in real life using the stylus on a Samsung phone so I always figured it was a somewhat unused feature of a very specific niche model in the lineup.

    The ultra series MSRP is over $1400, I imagine at that price Samsung sells less than 5% of their volume with an integrated S Pen.

They thought of that! The cutaway of the stylus is a rounded rectangle, comfortable in the fingers but does not roll.

In any case, replacement stylii are very cheap online. Less than a screen protector.

  • Good to know they’re cheap, I actually figured they’d be more like an expensive active stylus.

The Palm Pilot experience. But that stylus was required for operation. Fortunately, just a plastic stick, so 3-pack replacement were cheap.