With ultra-full-screen and lightweight smartphones becoming the mainstream, how can users achieve precise and efficient writing and creative capabilities without sacrificing screen visibility and tactile feel? As a leading global provider of digital drawing and writing solutions, UGEE offers an innovative approach to this need with its independently developed EMR Mini electromagnetic pen solution.
UGEE has partnered with TCL to integrate this cutting-edge miniaturized electromagnetic induction technology into the slim design of TCL's new NXTPAPER 60 Ultra smartphone, delivering a natural writing experience and ushering in a new era of borderless smartphone interaction.
I. Miniaturization Breakthrough: Overcoming the Challenges of Handwriting Integration in Mobile Devices
Smartphone form factor innovation has reached its physical limits, while the demand for mobile office work and instant creation has become increasingly commonplace. Users' expectations for efficient and accurate handwriting input on their devices are growing stronger. However, for smartphone manufacturers, integrated stylus functionality has long faced multiple difficult trade-offs.
Thin and light bodies make it difficult to accommodate traditional modules.
Full-screen and lightweight designs have become mainstream trends in mobile phone design, resulting in increasingly compact internal layouts. Traditional electromagnetic stylus solutions, due to their bulky modules, often require wider bezels or dedicated pen slots. This not only impacts the device's aesthetic integration but also potentially reduces battery capacity, creating a dilemma between aesthetic design and functionality.
Traditional solutions suffer from an imbalance between user experience and convenience.
Traditional handwriting solutions struggle to balance practicality: active styluses require frequent charging and are prone to interruption due to battery depletion during use, causing users to experience battery anxiety. While passive capacitive styluses don't require charging, they lack pressure sensitivity, making them inadequate for professional writing and light drawing.
A homogeneous market calls for innovative breakthroughs.
The current mobile phone market is facing intensifying competition, with narrowing differences in core specifications like screens and processors. Manufacturers urgently need handwriting solutions that balance design and professional experience. This will create a unique selling point, attract core user groups like mobile office workers and creative designers, and achieve differentiation.
To address these pain points, ugee, leveraging its 27 years of experience in EMR electromagnetic induction technology, independently developed the EMR Mini electromagnetic pen solution. This solution utilizes an innovative ultra-micro antenna board design and advanced signal processing algorithms to successfully integrate a complete, high-precision electromagnetic induction system into the ultra-narrow bezel of a mobile phone, addressing the technical challenges of achieving accurate sensing within a limited space.
II. Core Technology: EMR Mini's Four Core Competitive Advantages
The EMR Mini is more than a simple technological reduction; rather, it achieves innovative breakthroughs in multiple dimensions, including convenience, integration, user experience, and intelligence, providing a fully optimized solution for handwriting functions on mobile devices.
Passive Drive, Ultimate Convenience
Inheriting the core essence of EMR technology, the EMR Mini electromagnetic pen requires no internal battery. Instead, it draws power from the phone's sensor module through electromagnetic resonance, delivering a truly zero-burden "ready-to-use, never-ending" experience. Users can use the pen whenever they need it, taking notes in meetings or scribbling inspiration, eliminating the battery life concerns associated with active pens. Furthermore, the battery-free design reduces the need for consumables, aligning with environmentally friendly design principles.
Miniature Module, Seamless Integration
The innovative, ultra-precise micro-antenna board design is the key to the EMR Mini's breakthrough in space limitations. This module achieves extreme miniaturization, perfectly concealing itself within the compact design of a phone's ultra-narrow bezels. This eliminates the need for a separate stylus slot, widened bezels, or reduced battery capacity. This means phone manufacturers no longer have to compromise between thin and light design and handwriting functionality, enabling a perfect balance of functionality and aesthetics.
Precise Perception, Writing with the Feel of Paper
To address the industry challenge of performance compromises due to miniaturization, the EMR Mini electromagnetic pen is equipped with proprietary advanced electromagnetic signal processing algorithms. This effectively suppresses interference and ensures stable signal transmission, even in the complex electromagnetic environment inside a phone. The solution supports high-precision pressure sensitivity and ultra-low latency, accurately capturing changes in pen tip pressure, providing users with a natural and smooth writing experience comparable to that of a real pen on paper.
AI-Powered, Intelligent Recognition
The EMR Mini solution utilizes a combination of hardware and software, along with powerful AI algorithms, to intelligently recognize and deeply process handwriting, delivering an intelligent experience that transcends traditional writing. For example, it can recognize handwritten notes as editable text and generate meeting minutes and to-do lists with a single click. It can even recognize mathematical formulas and functions, transforming your phone into a truly portable intelligent creation and productivity tool.
II. From Technological Breakthroughs to Scenario Verification: Enabling an Upgraded Mobile Device Experience
Since 2023, ugee has entered into a deep strategic partnership with TCL, a globally renowned technology company, to jointly develop the digital handwriting smart terminal market. Currently, the two parties have further collaborated to successfully implement the EMR Mini on the new TCL NXTPAPER 60 Ultra mobile phone. This product debuted at the 2025 IFA in Berlin, receiving widespread attention and positive feedback from attendees and industry media.
This not only marks the transition of the "thin body + professional handwriting" concept from a technical concept to a mature mass-production reality, but also, through practical implementation, clearly demonstrates the technology's practical value in optimizing user experience, enabling manufacturer innovation, and providing industry-leading insights. It has become a leading example of the implementation of handwriting functionality on mobile devices.
Users: A refreshing experience, turning your phone into a "workbench."
EMR Mini empowers the TCL NXTPAPER 60 Ultra with value beyond just a communication tool: Business professionals can take notes on meetings and annotate PDFs in their original handwriting while commuting, eliminating the need for a separate notebook. Creatives can quickly sketch when inspiration strikes, with precise pressure sensitivity recreating the feel of a brush. And with no need to charge, it's instantly usable, significantly lowering the barrier to entry and making efficient writing accessible at any time.
Manufacturers: Reduce costs, improve efficiency, and create a differentiated advantage.
For manufacturers like TCL, this solution offers integrated "module + algorithm + adaptation" service support, eliminating the need to develop electromagnetic induction technology from scratch, significantly shortening R&D cycles and reducing technology costs. Furthermore, it delivers a professional handwriting experience without sacrificing a slim design or battery life, making the device stand out in the high-end market. This unique selling point is particularly evident in the office phone and creative tablet categories, helping to attract core users.
Industry: Setting a benchmark, enabling innovation and upgrading.
The EMR Mini electromagnetic pen solution provides a new path for collaborative innovation in functionality and design for the mobile device industry. This not only breaks the industry's inherent perception that handwriting on mobile devices necessarily sacrifices user experience or design, but also inspires more manufacturers to explore new possibilities in human-computer interaction, driving innovation and upgrades across the entire mobile and portable creative device industry.
Overall, the EMR Mini is just one corner of Hanvon ugee's technology ecosystem. As a specialist in EMR handwriting solutions, ugee leverages its extensive technical expertise to establish a leading position in the industry's handwriting module market. It provides intelligent handwriting solutions for numerous renowned global brands, including Xiaomi, iFlytek, and GuaGuaLong.
The company's EMR handwriting solutions cover a wide range of scenarios—from consumer electronics such as mobile phones, tablets, and digital displays, to smart education terminals, government and financial approval equipment, and even business office environments. ugee offers mature, reliable, and rapidly integrated customized technical solutions tailored to the core needs of various industries.
Looking ahead, ugee looks forward to cooperating with more mobile phone and smart device manufacturers, taking mature and innovative EMR technology solutions as the core, continuously empowering innovation in terminal application scenarios, and jointly exploring new forms of more natural and efficient human-computer interaction, creating a writing experience and scene value that exceeds users' expectations.
