Do you have a Galaxy Note 2 and went green with envy when Samsung showed off the slick new functionality of the Galaxy Note 3's S Pen? Some of the cool new features of Samsung's latest phablet have been ported to its phablet star of last year.
A member of the popular xda-developers forum, going by the tag titooo7 has managed to port some of the features which were announced by Samsung on the Galaxy Note 3. This port is completely unofficial and has nothing to do with Samsung.
The ported features include Air Command, S Note, Sketchbook, S Planner and Gallery among other things. Most of these features are working well enough to not cause any deal breaking problems. A few minor issues persist like you still can't use one hand operation on all apps and the Air View feature appears twice in settings. The issues are mostly very minor and would likely not hamper the overall experience a lot.
We can expect Samsung to officially port the features to its older phablet with the next major update that is pushed to the Galaxy Note 2. The update might come with Android 4.3 package for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Reports have so far suggested that the Android 4.3 update is going to be available only after late November or early December.
But if you can't wait a couple of months to experience the new features, you can go ahead and give the unofficial port a try. Flashing custom ROMs is a moderately risky process and to ensure you don't cause any long-term damage to your device, please follow the instructions on the xda-developers post. We encourage you to wait for a couple of months for the official update but for the curious ones out there, you can try it out right now.
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