Is 2020 the year of the pencil? Back in January Samsung unveiled its first budget phone, the Galaxy Note 10 Lite, and shortly after Motorola released its first smartphone in years, the Moto G Stylus, and now it looks like Google might work on a Pixel phone with stylus integration. also. A Google patent published earlier this month and discovered by Patently Mobile shows a Pixel phone used with a stylus. The proprietary phone appears to use a radar field, similar to the Soli radar on the Pixel 4 that enabled Motion Sense gesture control, to add functionality to the stylus even when you're not physically touching the phone's screen. So it looks like Google is working on a pen phone, which would put it in direct competition with the Samsung Galaxy Note 20, which is likely to be the most popular pen phone of 2020 due to the prominence of the lineup between these devices. . . Samsung Galaxy Note 10 phones used S Pen functionality even when you weren't drawing on the screen, with gesture commands to take remote selfies and more, and it looks like Google is trying to emulate that, using the radar field indicated on the screen. patent. On the Google Pixel 4, the Soli radar enabled basic hands-free gesture commands like swiping to skip music tracks, and while rumors suggest the functionality should be discontinued for the Pixel 5, this patent indicates Google can't. Be prepared to completely abandon your technology at this point. The main complaint about Motion Sense on the Pixel 4 was that it just didn't work as expected, so Google will have to improve the technology for any future devices, and adding a stylus could help with that. It looks like the Google Pixel's proprietary stylus phone could tell where you're holding the stylus in relation to the phone, and also what orientation or angle it's at, depending on stylus signals, which is probably more accurate than sensing gestures with the stylus. hands. Just because a patent has been filed and published doesn't mean future Google phones will have a stylus; patents simply show that the company is working on an idea, not that it is safe to use it. And even if Google does plan a pen phone, it probably won't be the Pixel 5, as the company is likely past the patent phase of planning this phone, but instead could be for the Pixel 6, or to a line of completely different devices.