Is Samsung thinking of ditching the S Pen in future Galaxy S Ultras?

02 February 2025
We hope not but it sure looks like it.

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  • Anonymous
  • K1I
  • 03 Feb 2025

Introducing a feature only to remove it later, and that's Samsung. Should be their new tagline.

    SPen is the biggest reason why I am buying Samsung phones. The shutter was a great feature. In my opinion, a Plus size with SPen would be perfect phone.

    SPen is also great for presentations. You can connect the phone to a TV or projector, and SPen helps you with sliding through photos or PowerPoint slides.

      So many possibilities.

      1.) They could have cases that could have an S Pen as an alternative.

      2.) They could just ditch it on Ultras altogether either for a unified S Pen experience on the Folds and Ultras somehow, perhaps through the case S Pens being the same, OR they could just ditch it entirely with little to no other camera/battery improvements, thus only saving space and massively saving costs.

      3.) They could also use this justification to bring a hardware upgrade, but a minor one, for example in the S27 series they could bring Si/C batteries but remove the S Pen and act like the bigger battery demanded it, as a result of this they could have space left in the future for adding bigger cameras so future R&D Costs will be lower alongside the production costs.


      Whatever the case, the future looks gloomy. Consumers who defend Samsung now will continue defending them in the future, nothing will change now as there's a loyal fanbase/the average person somehow likes anti-consumer practices, so we'll all get the worst possible phones for the highest prices they can charge.

        I don't use S-Pen, but knowing it's there and available to you is the point of it. I had two occasions where I needed to sign a document and there is no way you can do it well with finger. So I could sign it right there and send it over on the spot.

        Also I have Galaxy Watch, but I also wear regular mechanical watches and then you have no remote function because Samsung wants to be cheap and keep removing functions from their god damn flagship phone.

          from the creators of:

          no microSD: no purchase

          no jack 3.5: no purchase

          it comes to us.... no S Pen: no purchase.

          🤣

          Samsung eliminated charging adapters years ago, so it can eliminate the S Pen. greed = Apple = Samsung

            So we are going to have ugly 5 camera setup with no s-pen...lol, all the cheap chinese phone will suddenly become more attractive..even Oneplus will be much better option compared to future S ultras..who would dare to pay extra 400$ for oneplus lookalike:)))

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              • Anonymous
              • 7kk
              • 03 Feb 2025

              Samsung Tablets sitting in the corner crying, waiting for their turn. 😢😢😢

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                • arifsakib
                • X%K
                • 03 Feb 2025

                I use s-pen for the last 4 years. For me, S-Pen is the only thing that makes me use samsung! I dont use diaries anymore at my office. I am fully dependent on S-pen for notes, drawing, listing and more. If they ditch S-Pen, I will stop using Samsung in coming days.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 0xQ
                  • 03 Feb 2025

                  Calling S pen a "remote shutter" always makes me laugh. How can you take remove a shutter from the phone and use it remotely? S Pen is (was) a remote shutter control, or remote triger.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • R4S
                    • 03 Feb 2025

                    why is Samsung so determined to be a western ripoff brand lol . . Just wish Vivo got the same exposure for a more-premium product line.

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                      • 1989
                      • CbI
                      • 03 Feb 2025

                      Samsung is always trying to follow apple. Its a miracle the s pen held out this long.

                        but half the appeal of Spen was being inside your phone,if i have to carry a separate case or have a bulky case with my phone just to accommodate the spen ,is a big no from me

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                          • IL2
                          • 03 Feb 2025

                          The Chinese brands are not prominent here in the USA. So ditching Samsung is not really an option for us if we want to use Android regardless if they remove the S-Pen. And Samsung is already well established here among Android OEMs.

                          Similar to Apple, Samsung's ecosystem is very hard to leave. The ones saying they will ditch Samsung will probably end up going back to them in a few years after they get bored with Apple or another Android OEM. Or be a ping-pong ball between Apple or Samsung.

                          Good luck finding aftermarket support with your Chinese brands here in the States. Americans are pretty much stuck with a duolopy. Nobody here really wants Pixels. Their resale value is awful. Google trying to sell us a midrange Exynos SoC named as Tensor for flagship prices.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • PEq
                            • 03 Feb 2025

                            No no i dont wanna let this happen

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                              • Krjal
                              • yEe
                              • 03 Feb 2025

                              If Samsung removes the EMR digitiser I will finally abandon Samsung. It's the last thing keeping me using their unimpressive ex-Note flagships.

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                                • astolfo
                                • GBh
                                • 03 Feb 2025

                                Knowing how dumb TM Roh & Samsung fanatics are, they probably want to sell you a "pro" S-pen like Apple does.

                                That or they plan on "launching" the Note series again to grab more sales in front of the iPhone, since their foldables are going nowhere

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • wrc
                                  • 03 Feb 2025

                                  If it's a yeah, well we are cooked.

                                    If they ditch the S pen, then no more Samsung for me.

                                      Jon8652, 03 Feb 2025It's the only real advantage they have over their Chin... moreIt's already over for them. They are competing over three things only. Display, OneUI, availability. Rest things have gone from their hands. There is no looking back now. This year with OnePlus 13, software and display has gone in favour of OnePlus 13.

                                        Anonymous, 03 Feb 2025If they can promise and prove that all of the extra spaced ... moreIt's of no use as OnePlus 14 is coming with 7000-7500Mah battery. Imagine that with 8 Elite 2 chipset.

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