月份: 2021 年 6 月

Get valuable information out of your pictures — even if you took them years ago!

Google Lens has been an instrumental part of your camera for half a decade, but it’s also been part of Google Photos for a few years, too. This means that even if there’s no time to use Google Lens at the moment — such as when some weird-looking snake gets into the garden — you can come back and use Lens for its AI object identification, text transcription, and context recognition to figure things out later — like if that was a harmless rat snake you killed or a deadly copperhead.

Here’s how to use Google Lens inside the Google Photos app on your phone.

How to use Google Lens in Google Photos

Open the Google Photos app.
Tap the photo you want to pull text or item info from.
Tap the Lens icon in the bottom bar.
Once Lens has analyzed the image, tap an object dot.

Swipe up to expand the details or context of the identified object.
To copy text, tap any highlighted text string.
Drag the blue …

Galaxy Note loyalists aren’t happy with the S Pen implementation on the S21 Ultra.

What you need to know

Samsung is apparently disappointed with the market response to the Galaxy S21 Ultra with the S Pen.
It is planning to bring the Galaxy Note series next year.
Samsung isn’t launching a new Note series phone this year due to the global chip shortage.

Before Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S21 series, several rumors claimed that the company’s Galaxy Note line would be discontinued this year. Soon after the launch of the Galaxy S21 series, however, Samsung mobile chief Koh Dong-jin confirmed that the Note series isn’t going away.

According to tipster @FrontTron, the market response to the Galaxy S21 Ultra with the S Pen has been much lower than what Samsung had expected. As a result, the company is said to be “discussing” bringing back the Galaxy Note series next year. This doesn’t come as a surprise since Samsung has already announced plans to launch a new Galaxy Note in 2022.

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