The Galaxy S8 will be compatible with the S Pen, but will sell separately – CNET in Spanish

The Galaxy S8, as is known, informally, the next Samsung flagship phone will be compatible with the S Pen, the stylus which until now is unique to the line Note, in accordance with information collected by the site SamMobile.

Samsung would have in their offices of research and development a prototype of the Galaxy S8 with a compartment for the stylus, says the report, which explains that it is more likely that the company chooses to remove this compartment, and only then that the pen and the phone are compatible.

The manufacturer of the phone will make the pen and the phone to work well for the first time, but users will have the decision to use it, because the S Pen would be sold separately as an accessory for the phone, says SamMobile.

The line Galaxy Note is the only phone from Samsung that works with the S Pen. Samsung placed the stylus on your phone despite the criticism at the beginning because the cell did not use the pen. However, Samsung gave the S Pen functions which benefit to use and take advantage of the huge screen of the Note.

Samsung would place the stylus because the Galaxy S8 will be 6 inches, according to the rumors. The S Pen would come useful to take advantage of the screen and do the functions that the Note already offers. In addition, the S8 would be an excellent alternative for users who were left without the Note 7.

The Galaxy S8 will arrive next year at a date not yet confirmed but in any month of the first semester of 2017. Waiting for a phone with no bezels and no front button, the screen between 2K and 4K, an intelligent assistant like Siri or Google Now.

Read everything here that we know about the Galaxy S8.

The 2017 is seen as a year in which the phones will begin to change in a definitive way. The reports anticipate an iPhone 8 with OLED display and that would be to get rid also of the home button in addition to more surprises, since it would be the tenth anniversary of the device.

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