Goodbye, flip charts and whiteboards! Hello, Samsung Fl!p!!!
Presentations will never be the same again! I grew up in the age of flip charts and I mean large sheets of white paper on an easel which you literally flip over to write on a new page. You only had 3 pen colors to choose from as they were the only available pentel pen colors: black, red, and blue. When you had to backtrack to a previous flip chart, it was such a pain to have to flip through them one by one to find the one you wanted (think of that when you have 20 or more flip charts).
Samsung has reinvented the flip chart and launched the Samsung Fl!p interactive digital flip chart in the Philippines last April 19. In developing the product, Samsung studied how teams would normally use flip charts, incorporated those actions in developing the Samsung Fl!p, and even added more bells and whistles.
The 55″ screen display is mounted on a portable 4-wheel stand and can be flipped from portrait to landscape orientation. A wooden pen with dual tips stores easily on a pen holder located on one side of the Fl!p. The screen is adapted to cursive writing and gives you almost the same tactile experience as writing on a paper-based flip chart. But this time, up to 4 people can simultaneously write on the screen and annotate it either with their finger or with the dual-tip pens. Write notes on the screen with the pointed tip and it acts as a pen; turn the pen around to use the thicker tip and Fl!p changes into highlighting mode. In both writing and highlighting modes, pressing the nib of the pen to the screen pops up a color menu so you can choose your color. And when you want to erase something on the Fl!p, just swipe a finger or palm over the area and it magically erases — just like we used to do with whiteboards, minus the mess that did to our hands.
Running your finger up and down scrolls the screen of the Fl!p. The Fl!p can easily handle up to 20 pages. Similar to the Powerpoint feature where you can view thumbnail slides so you could jump immediately to the slide you want, the Fl!p also allows you to do the same. Swipe the right side of the screen and the pages you created (in thumbnails) slide into view. With certain compatible devices and OS, like Windows 10, one can also import what is on one’s device into the Fl!p and annotate the images directly on the Fl!p.
Take a look at this video to see the features in action.
If you are wondering about security and protection since several users in your company could be using the same Fl!p, the Fl!p can password-protect the pages created by you and your team so only those who know the password can access them. You also have the ability to export the pages by sending them to the team via email, printing, network or USB storage.
We actually had fun trying out the Samsung Fl!p’s features. The bloggers were divided into 2 teams. Our team, called Team Manila, I’m proud to say, not only collaborated together wonderfully with every new challenge given but we really had so much fun. Each point won had us all cheering, hands up in the air.
One final challenge was to take a group selfie, post it on the Fl!p, and decorate it. Here was what we did:
And….our Team Manila won!!! What an enjoyable way to learn more about what the Samsung Fl!p could do!
The Samsung Fl!p will retail at PhP 139,990 (unit only). The stand sells for PhP 33,990. The set will cost PhP 173,980.
