- Jun 16, 2007
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A beta update to OneNote now allows users on Android to be able to take notes within Microsoft's OneNote app with either digital pen, stylus, or pen.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...-options-better-navigation-and-lg-g3-support/
I signed up for the beta and received the beta update of OneNote on my Galaxy Note 3 and gave it a test.
So far my first impression is, oh my god this works great. I've been dying for a way to be able to use OneNote on my phone. OneNote is by far my prefered app for taking notes, it's so much better than S-Note and Evernote. But I figured handwriting would be a feature that wouldn't come to Android phones and surprisingly there are no Windows Phones with pens.
I tested OneNote on the Galaxy Note 3, first with the pen of course. It writes just as well in OneNote as it does in S Note. Good smooth lines and responsive. Microsoft has replaced the tool wheel with a tool bar that can be expanded or minimized from the top right side. And I like this new tool bar much more than the wheel. I can switch between tools, particularly the main pen and eraser much easier on Android than on Windows 8.
Palm rejection works as you'd expect. I'm able to rest my hand on the phone, even on the capacitive buttons at the bottom of my Note 3 and haven't had any issues like accidentally triggering the back button. It's behaving very well.
Next I tried finger input. It's not easy writing with your finger, you can't see what you are writing so it's hard to form the letters correctly and space things right. So I have to write much larger and it still doesn't look that good. But it will work for some quick ugly notes.
Using a capacitive stylus next, I was able to do a better job, the tip is smaller so it's easier to see what I'm writing, but I still can't write as small or neatly as I can with a digital pen. And of course I have to keep my palm off the screen since there is no palm rejection.
I tried the capacitive stylus on my Nexus 7 and found it a lot harder, because of the larger screen it's difficult to write without touching the screen.
Syncing seems to work differently. While on Windows 8 it seems to synchronize instantly. One Android it only synchronizes when I exit the note. I had the same note open on two different Android devices. Wrote different things on both and when they both finally synced together it layered both notes ontop of each other making it unreadable. There is a Sync Work option under the menu button.
Now I REALLY REALLY REALLY want a new Galaxy Note 8 tablet to come out so badly.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...-options-better-navigation-and-lg-g3-support/
I signed up for the beta and received the beta update of OneNote on my Galaxy Note 3 and gave it a test.
So far my first impression is, oh my god this works great. I've been dying for a way to be able to use OneNote on my phone. OneNote is by far my prefered app for taking notes, it's so much better than S-Note and Evernote. But I figured handwriting would be a feature that wouldn't come to Android phones and surprisingly there are no Windows Phones with pens.
I tested OneNote on the Galaxy Note 3, first with the pen of course. It writes just as well in OneNote as it does in S Note. Good smooth lines and responsive. Microsoft has replaced the tool wheel with a tool bar that can be expanded or minimized from the top right side. And I like this new tool bar much more than the wheel. I can switch between tools, particularly the main pen and eraser much easier on Android than on Windows 8.
Palm rejection works as you'd expect. I'm able to rest my hand on the phone, even on the capacitive buttons at the bottom of my Note 3 and haven't had any issues like accidentally triggering the back button. It's behaving very well.
Next I tried finger input. It's not easy writing with your finger, you can't see what you are writing so it's hard to form the letters correctly and space things right. So I have to write much larger and it still doesn't look that good. But it will work for some quick ugly notes.
Using a capacitive stylus next, I was able to do a better job, the tip is smaller so it's easier to see what I'm writing, but I still can't write as small or neatly as I can with a digital pen. And of course I have to keep my palm off the screen since there is no palm rejection.
I tried the capacitive stylus on my Nexus 7 and found it a lot harder, because of the larger screen it's difficult to write without touching the screen.
Syncing seems to work differently. While on Windows 8 it seems to synchronize instantly. One Android it only synchronizes when I exit the note. I had the same note open on two different Android devices. Wrote different things on both and when they both finally synced together it layered both notes ontop of each other making it unreadable. There is a Sync Work option under the menu button.
Now I REALLY REALLY REALLY want a new Galaxy Note 8 tablet to come out so badly.
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