Google Handwrite Brings Back Old School Writing

[cereal killer]

Do you remember that long lost skill called writing that you learned back in Elementary School? Well it's back with Google's newest innovation called Handwriting. Forget bringing up your keyboard to do a search on Google's search page, now you can just write anywhere on your screen with your finger and it will be automatically entered into the search box.

To activate the feature, you'll need to go to Google.com in your mobile browser and enable the Handwrite option in settings. After you save it and back out, a Handwrite icon appears in the bottom right corner of the screen; tap it and it activates the writing surface. Place your finger anywhere on the screen and begin to write. Your beautiful handwriting appears on the screen and gets translated to standard letters that appear in the search field. Autosuggest will be cued up to make the search even faster. Check out the video of Handwrite in action. Enjoy!


Source: CNet

[Ollie]

Works best in landscape mode for a longer writing surface. I can't get it to make a period though. Hopefully they integrate it into the URL bar

Man I miss that capacitive stylus!

[Mujibar]

Can't you just use any capacitive stylus? There are a bunch of them out there now.

~ GNexified ~

[Ollie]

Nah. It's not the same. The S3 doesn't have a digitizer built in like the Note. Nor sure why they left out an .87¢ part.

Should be beast on your tablet though. That's got some real estate.

[Mujibar]

Well ... that's just poor. Yeah, lots of folks are buying capacitive styli for the N7.

~ GNexified ~

[codylv]

Nah. It's not the same. The S3 doesn't have a digitizer built in like the Note. Nor sure why they left out an .87¢ part.

Should be beast on your tablet though. That's got some real estate.

Not true you can use a capacitive stylus just not a regular stylus like the old palms.

[Ollie]

The Note uses Wacom technology in their screens and stylus. The S3 is missing this. It's not even comparable really.

It's a cliche market though and if we weren't so close to the Windows tablet launch I would look into getting a Sammy tablet when it features Wacom's goodness.

I tried the Note's stylus on my S3 and it didn't register touch.

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