Samsung’s Z Fold phones have supported its S Pen stylus in the past, even though the foldables could not internally store the pen. With the upcoming Fold 7, we’ve been hearing rumors of a new ...

Text input with Samsung’s stylus on the Z Fold 4 is a joy. However, carrying it around with the S Pen is anything but. Samsung has yet to find a good solution.

The TCL Stylus 5G, revealed Thursday by TCL, is one of the cheaper stylus-equipped phones, hitting the market at under $300. The phone arrives June 2 at T-Mobile and Metro stores starting at $258 ...

Pretty well. It can be used for handwriting in any app that accepts such input, and works as a stylus everywhere else in iOS. While it works with Android, we didn't test it with that OS.

The Moto G Stylus 5G launched with Android 13 out of the box and will only receive one OS upgrade to Android 14. It will also receive three years of security updates.

The ‘S Pen Pro’ name actually surfaced in a regulatory filing a while back. We assumed that is the stylus that the Galaxy Z Fold 3 will ship with, and that assumption was spot on, it seems.

I do think the stylus is the only important reason to pick the Note 10 Plus over the Galaxy S10 Plus or some other big Android phone. And how much you’re into it is an entirely personal decision.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow, unveiled in 2015, featured Bluetooth stylus support, which made it possible for Samsung to bring Bluetooth support to its famous S Pen in the Galaxy Note 9 unveiled last Fall.

It comes with pen-specific apps like Quick Memo for taking notes and Pen Keeper to warn you if you've unwittingly dropped the pen, and it'll run the newer version 6.0 of Google's Android, Marshmallow.

Nice, yes, but not unique enough to win a specs battle against the iPad 2 and umpteen other Android tablets that will ship this year. What makes the Flyer unique is its pen-input feature.