Samsung has quietly corrected the problem of the S Pen on the Galaxy … – Juicer (Blog)

The Galaxy Note’s S Pen 5 could damage the smartphone is inserted in the wrong direction.

By the end of last year, Samsung released the Galaxy Note 5. And if he has an interesting technical sheet and an appealing design (or not), users don ‘ were quick to report a problem.

In fact, if unfortunately the user inserts the pen in the wrong direction, it damages the telephone mechanism that detects the insertion of the stylus. And the trouble is that nothing has been provided to prevent this operator error. The scandal was even a nickname. “Pengate”

Given the controversy over this design flaw, Samsung had indicated: “We strongly recommend that users of the Galaxy Note 5 track instructions in the owner’s manual to make sure they do not see such a scenario caused by the insertion of the S Pen in the wrong direction. “

But since the South -coréen added a note on the packaging of the smartphone to prevent the insertion of the S Pen in the wrong direction, in addition to the information in the record. And also a rumor that Samsung would also corrected the problem on its smartphones has recently started to spread on the canvas

And this was confirmed by the manufacturer in a statement. “Samsung can confirm that the internal mechanism of the S Pen on the Note 5 was changed to avoid the problem caused by inserting the stylus in the wrong direction … And as always, we recommend following the instructions for storing the S Pen “.

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