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TL;DR A smartphone leaker recently posted about upcoming plans for a “multi-spectral” stylus.
That’s not a term we’re familiar with from existing stylus hardware, and have seen a few different theories about its possible meaning.
Our most likely interpretation, however, suggests this probably isn’t anything worth getting excited about.
Tips about upcoming smartphones can turn up anywhere, and as we try to sort through all the rumors and theories surrounding upcoming devices, that can often mean looking at tips that don’t originate in a language we natively speak. For as good as translation tools have become, sometimes we’re still left scratching our heads a little bit at their output — and that’s exactly what’s going on now for smartphones fans trying to make sense of a recent folding-phone rumor.
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We’re looking at a message posted to Weibo over the weekend from tipster Smart Pikachu. And as you’d expect from a Weibo post, the content is in Chinese. There, Smart Pikachu offers some insight into plans for the Honor Magic V6 and OPPO Find N6. And that post wraps up with the note (emphasis ours): One boasts a slim design and a large 7K battery, while the other features a multi-spectral stylus. What the heck is a multi-spectral stylus supposed to be? We ran the original text through several different translation engines, and keep getting pretty much that same output.
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Sites like GSM Arena have posted speculation that this could be about advanced sensor tech, pressure sensitivity, latency reduction, or pretty much any other stylus upgrade you could imagine. And while we suppose that any of that’s possible, none of that really makes any sense to our ears when we’re talking “multi-spectral.”
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