--- title: 'Now You Know...' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=0pXrDVfe8A4' video_id: '0pXrDVfe8A4' date: 2026-08-28 duration_sec: 172 channel: 'JerryRigEverything' --- # Now You Know... > Source: [Now You Know...](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0pXrDVfe8A4) ## Summary This video explores the Motorola Stylus, a budget-friendly alternative to Samsung's S26 Ultra, highlighting its unique features, durability, and value proposition. The presenter compares the two phones' specifications, including the stylus capabilities, screen quality, and build materials, while also demonstrating the device's structural integrity through a bend test. ### Key Points - **Origin of Motorola name** [00:01] — Motorola's name originated from its 1930s focus on car radios, combining 'motor' with the popular suffix 'ola' meaning sound. - **Price comparison** [00:16] — The Motorola Stylus is priced at $500, significantly cheaper than Samsung's S26 Ultra at $1,100, offering a stylus at a fraction of the cost. - **Stylus features** [00:30] — The stylus can magnify the screen, convert handwriting to text, and complete hand-drawn math equations, though it made an error on a number, highlighting AI limitations. - **Stylus build quality** [00:57] — The pen housing is made of metal, making it more durable than Samsung's S Pen, with the battery housed in the upper half and protected by a metal exterior. - **Screen specifications** [01:23] — Motorola has a 6.7-inch screen with 444 pixels per inch, while Samsung has a 6.9-inch screen with 500 PPI, plus anti-glare coating and privacy mode that Motorola lacks. - **Expandable storage** [01:39] — The SIM card tray includes an SD card slot supporting up to 1 TB, offering storage expansion freedom. - **Camera and charging** [01:54] — Features a 32-megapixel front-facing hole-punch camera and a 68-watt turbo power USB-C port, which is faster than Samsung's 60 watts. - **Back panel material** [02:09] — The back panel is made of a rubbery silicone polymer, which the presenter prefers over glass due to its shatter resistance. - **Bend test results** [02:21] — The Motorola Stylus shows minimal flex and no cracks or permanent kinks when bent from the front and back, proving its structural strength. ### Conclusion The Motorola Stylus offers impressive value at $500, with durable build quality and unique stylus features, though it compromises on screen specs and lacks some premium features found in Samsung's flagship. Overall, it's a strong budget contender for stylus enthusiasts. ## Transcript does the name Motorola even come from?" And you might be surprised that back in the 1930s, Motorola's whole stick was putting radios into cars. Hence the name motor ola. Ola was a popular suffix back in the day signifying sound, like the radiola home radio or the griffindola phonograph. Motorola just stuck, even though they don't make car radios anymore. Motorola, however, just made a Samsung S26 Ultra competitor with an internal stylus at a fraction of the cost. 500 bucks versus 1,100. The stylus can do a few things. It can act as a magnifier for the screen, kind of nifty. It can also convert writing to text, just like Samsung, and it can even complete your hand-drawn mathematical equations. However, it looks like the computer brain missed one of the ones at the beginning of my number, which means probably a lesson in there somewhere about letting AI do your thinking for lesson is. Surprisingly, the pen housing is made from metal, making it quite a bit more durable than Samsung's S Pen. The battery, as you can tell, is very durably housed in the upper half of the stylus, as you can see from the coils of electrodes wound up tight inside of the metal exterior housing. Don't try this at home. Shorted batteries have a very distinctive smell of burnt Skittles. You can take a look at the screen. The Motorola stylus is using a 6.7-in screen, while Samsung uses a 6.9-in. Samsung also has 500 pixels per inch, where Motorola has 444. And Motorola doesn't have the anti-glare coating nor the privacy mode. Take a look at this SIM card tray, a blast from the past. We get the freedom to expand our storage with an SD card slot, up to 1 TB. Amazing. There is a front-facing 32-megapixel hole-punch camera under the glass with a very thin earpiece slit between the glass and the jack sits right next to the 68 watt turbo power USB-C port, which is faster than Samsung's 60 watts. The back panel is made from a very rubbery silicone polymer type material, which in my opinion is far better than glass, which is bound to shatter at some point. Samsung's have never wavered in their structural rigidity, so let's see if this Motorola can hang. When it's bent the top end, right below that camera plateau, but no cracks or permanent kinks. When bent from the front, we get the same amount of minimal flex, but the Motorola Stylus is still surprisingly strong even without the stylus helping out from the inside. At $500 so far, the Motorola is holding its own against Samsung, but let's pop it open and see what's really under the hood. Make sure you're subscribed if you like seeing cool tech from the inside.