Productivity is more than just a pen See how the Samsung S22 Ultra can make your work more efficient

Since the advent of smartphones, more and more things can be done on mobile phones. However, for real productivity applications, we are still more accustomed to doing it on the desktop side of the computer. But is the mobile phone really embarrassing? This may not be the case.

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

Recently, Samsung has just released the latest flagship model of the S series, the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, as the benchmark for Android flagships, which not only has strong performance, but also is the first S series model with built-in S Pen. How much does the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra with so many pens help us in productivity? What other features on the S22 Ultra can further boost your phone's productivity? Let me give you the answer with a day's experience.

01 More than S Pen, more than just a pen

I believe that for mobile phone enthusiasts, almost all of them have more or less heard the name of the S Pen stylus. As one of the iconic designs of the Note series, the excellent use experience brought by the S Pen and the large screen has made many friends become die-hard users of Samsung. While the Note series entered history, the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra inherited the mantle of the Note series, and it was easy to remove the stylus by tapping the S Pen button on the bottom of the phone. This built-in storage method solves the problems of handwriting pens that are not easy to carry and easy to lose, and is more practical and convenient.

Tap to remove the S Pen

As for why we should use a stylus, we will inevitably encounter such a situation in our work, where we need to record some content temporarily, but we do not have a pen and paper at hand. The typing speed of the mobile phone is not guaranteed, and the live recording is difficult to sort out... Problems make it difficult for these approaches to solve such dilemmas. The S Pen on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is convenient to use and can also provide a writing experience similar to that of real pen and paper.

Pop up S Pen in the lock screen state to trigger the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra's information screen quick write function, and you can quickly record anything you think of. Once the recording is complete, put the S Pen back in the slot to quickly save so that every inspiration can be preserved. When we unlock the phone, the floating window command menu can provide us with more practical functions of the S Pen, such as screenshot editing, translation, quick glance, etc., to help us further improve our work efficiency.

The built-in S Pen of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra has a new upgrade compared to the previous generation. The new version of the S Pen can achieve a low latency of only 2.8 milliseconds when used with the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, and with the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra's screen with a high refresh rate of 120Hz, it can achieve a more accurate and smooth writing experience.

As the best partner of the S Pen, the Samsung Note APP has also received a new experience upgrade on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. Its supported voice tag function allows everyone to record audio while taking notes to provide a comparison for post-note organization. For added convenience, Samsung Notes can also recognize handwritten content and convert it into normal text that can be edited.

The addition of the PDF annotation function allows everyone to use S Pen for free annotation without the assistance of third-party software when reading PDF documents, and record their feelings when reading in real time. The addition of folder mode allows everyone to manage documents through the familiar PC folder mode, which is more convenient for everyone to find and classify files in the future.

PDF annotation function

For note-taking apps, the ability to sync save across devices in the cloud is important. With this feature, we can automatically save and sync documents from Samsung notes to the cloud, enabling collaborative work with PCs, tablets, and more. Samsung Note APP also supports synchronization with Microsoft OneNote, as long as the Microsoft OneNote account is bound to Samsung Notes, users can achieve document synchronization between the two.

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra also continues the air-operated functionality of the previous Note series, where the S Pen senses hand movements through its built-in motion sensor. In actual use, we can realize five kinds of action instructions such as return and return home page through the air operation function of S Pen.

In the adapted application, we can achieve many practical functions through the air operation function of S Pen, such as flipping photo albums, PPT page turning, remote control photography, remote control operation, etc. For example, when using the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra to connect a monitor for a PPT presentation, we can use the S Pen as a "remote control" to remotely control the playback of the PPT.

To really boost productivity, adding a pen is obviously not enough. The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra further leverages the S Pen's powerful writing capabilities through system-level optimizations. The air operation function makes the function of S Pen not only writing, but also becomes more commonly used, so that S Pen truly becomes a "magic pen" to improve productivity.

02Samsung Dex turns the S22 Ultra into a computer in seconds

As the performance of smart phones becomes more and more powerful, mobile phone manufacturers are also constantly thinking about whether they can replace bulky computers with mobile phones and truly realize a machine in hand and work at any time. In order to achieve this goal, various manufacturers have also launched their own desktop applications, from the earliest Motorola, to the later Huawei, Hammer. As an early manufacturer involved in this field, Samsung's Samsung Dex function has been upgraded for a long time and can now provide quite good performance in the process of use.

At present, the screen projection mode of Samsung Dex not only supports wired connection, but also can choose wireless connection. Through this function, not only can the mobile phone screen of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra be cast to the display device that supports WiFi connection, but also the split screen projection function of the display device and the mobile phone displaying different screens respectively, such as we cast the online course video to the monitor, and then we use the S Pen to record the class notes on the mobile phone to achieve the lecture notes.

In addition to the screen-projecting mode, Samsung Dex also has a desktop mode. We can now implement the Dex desktop mode of running Samsung on a computer system by installing the Dex application on a PC or Mac. In simple terms, we can control the mobile phone directly through the computer under the Windows system and read the files in the mobile phone and use the applications on the mobile phone, so as to realize the information exchange between the computer and the mobile phone and break through the ecological barriers between the mobile phone and the computer.

In this mode, some applications are adapted in desktop mode, and applications that are not adapted are used in the form of portrait windows, while the mode also supports multitasking, and users can multitask management through the taskbar at the bottom.

For example, after connecting the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra to a Windows computer, we can manage the files of the mobile phone and drag and drop the files in the mobile phone to the computer, use the mouse and keyboard of the computer to enter text in the mobile phone's Samsung Note APP, view photos, answer and receive calls, play mobile games, and we also realize the interoperability between the computer and the mobile clipboard. It is worth mentioning that Samsung has also adapted the dark mode for the Dex desktop mode.

Overall, Samsung Dex can easily get a pc-like large-screen experience with the optimization of different usage scenarios and the polishing of details. For the needs of mild office, it is completely possible to abandon the PC and "go to the world with one machine".

03 Summary

For smart phones, it has long been constrained by the low efficiency of text input and poor cross-device collaboration, making it difficult to make a difference in productivity. For example, the imprecise interaction method of finger touch is difficult to achieve document editing work with high accuracy requirements, and the smaller mobile phone screen is not suitable for document or table editing.

Starting from solving the pain points of productivity, the newly upgraded S Pen stylus, Samsung Note APP and wireless DeX mode have solved the problems encountered by most professionals in the mobile office scene and set a new model for the industry. In addition, its excellent imaging capabilities and strong performance make it worthy of the name of "Android Machine King". For friends who want a high-end phone with an uncompromising experience, the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is worth considering.

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