A new patent recently filed by Samsung could allow the next
Note device, the Galaxy Note 4, to be a bit thinner than it predecessor, thanks
to a new S-Pen technology. Currently, the digitizer used to recognize the S-Pen’s
touch and respond to its gestures is adding some thickness to the device, and
that could be fixed now.
Currently, Samsung uses a digitizer to recognize the S-Pen’s
actions. However, with the new technology, the pen will instead use
Google to distribute Project Ara dev boards