{"id":90483,"date":"2025-02-03T01:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T01:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/is-samsung-thinking-of-ditching-the-s-pen-in-future-galaxy-s-ultras\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T01:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T01:13:54","slug":"is-samsung-thinking-of-ditching-the-s-pen-in-future-galaxy-s-ultras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/is-samsung-thinking-of-ditching-the-s-pen-in-future-galaxy-s-ultras\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Samsung thinking of ditching the S Pen in future Galaxy S Ultras?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>Samsung is the king of the smartphone stylus &#8211; not only does it have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/results.php3?sFreeText=stylus&amp;sMakers=9\">most models that support one<\/a>, but the S Pen is deeply integrated into its Galaxies. And it&#8217;s nowhere better than in the Galaxy S Ultra flagships. That&#8217;s because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_s22_ultra_5g-11251.php\">Galaxy S22 Ultra<\/a> was the spiritual successor to the last Galaxy Note, essentially merging the Note and S Ultra lineups together.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/25\/01\/is-samsung-ditching-the-s-pen-questionmark\/-1200w5\/gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Is Samsung thinking of ditching the S Pen in future Galaxy S Ulras?\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But Samsung removed the Bluetooth and gyroscope from the S Pen for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_galaxy_s25_ultra-13322.php\">Galaxy S25 Ultra<\/a> &#8211; features it added in 2018 &#8211; which signals that the S Pen may be on its way out.<\/p>\n<p>Citing its own survey, Samsung says that only 1% of Galaxy owners use those features of the S Pen. That&#8217;s a bad argument for a few reasons. First, 1% of all S Pen users is a lot of people &#8211; hundreds of thousands. Second, the S Pen was the ultimate remote shutter for your Galaxy phone (Samsung would like you to use your Galaxy Watch for that now).  Third, Samsung didn&#8217;t add anything to compensate for the lack of Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p>Bluetooth aside, the S Pen is still a capable stylus. It still has 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity and it still opens up a world of productivity possibilities on your phone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/25\/01\/is-samsung-ditching-the-s-pen-questionmark\/-1200w5\/gsmarena_004.jpg\" alt=\"Is Samsung thinking of ditching the S Pen in future Galaxy S Ulras?\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But the dumbing down of the S Pen, sadly, almost universally signals its upcoming complete removal from phones. We hope we&#8217;re wrong about this, but it&#8217;s never a good sign when features are removed.<\/p>\n<p>And it can happen as early as next year. We could be looking at a S Pen-less Galaxy S26 Ultra. Samsung may use a bigger battery or inner component optimization as arguments for this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/25\/01\/is-samsung-ditching-the-s-pen-questionmark\/-1200w5\/gsmarena_002.jpg\" alt=\"Is Samsung thinking of ditching the S Pen in future Galaxy S Ulras?\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Samsung could be working on a new standalone S Pen that will work with more phones &#8211; this opens up the possibility for fancy new cases with S Pen holsters for more phones, which will lead to improved profitability. It&#8217;s a winning strategy, even if we Bluetooth-enabled S Pen holdouts will be salty about it.<\/p>\n<h4>Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/is_samsung_thinking_of_ditching_the_s_pen_in_future_galaxy_s_ultras-news-66273.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung is the king of the smartphone stylus &#8211; not only does it have the most models that support one, but the S Pen is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}