- Samsung might need an all-new S Pen up its sleeve
- An organization exec revealed Samsung is growing a brand new S Pen
- It is going to solely return when the gadget is excellent, and if sufficient individuals need it
The S Pen is lifeless, lengthy reside the S Pen? Sure, whereas Samsung’s stylus has skipped the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, it may not be goodbye perpetually – be {that a} return in future generations or a return for the Z Fold 7 itself.
That’s in line with feedback made by Samsung’s personal Kang Min-seok – its head of smartphone product planning – to Korean outlet ETNews. He defined that Samsung is “researching and growing thinner and modern applied sciences for the S Pen” (machine translated from Korean).
Including that the S Pen will doubtlessly return “when the extent of perfection will increase and there may be shopper demand.”
This might align with Samsung’s HiDeep partnership. The pair is claimed to be engaged on an S Pen which doesn’t require a digitizer or an inner battery – combining the most effective of each the batteryless S Pen and the digitizer-less Apple Pencil (through SamMobile).
A brand new stylus design might clarify why Samsung eliminated the digitizer from its Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7. If it hoped to have the next-gen S Pen prepared for the Z Fold 7’s launch, then why wouldn’t it burden its foldable with a soon-to-be-useless part?
The truth that it isn’t right here but suggests the stylus might need been delayed, or it may very well be that Samsung is solely holding off till its S26 Extremely launch to introduce a brand new S Pen to the world. Nonetheless, that leaves a irritating 6-month or so lengthy hole for Z Fold 7 customers to endure and not using a stylus.
Alternatively, tying into the opposite facet of Samsung’s remark, it might merely be that the S Pen wasn’t common sufficient with the Z Fold line to warrant continued assist. And whereas I’ve by no means felt the necessity to use a stylus, that appears as a lot Samsung’s resolution as it’s mine.
Samsung doomed the S Pen
If commenters on-line are to be believed, the Z Fold 7’s great fake pas is sufficient to kill the foldable outright, however as an avid Z Fold 6 consumer, I believe reviews of the Z Fold 7’s dying are drastically exaggerated.
I by no means felt the necessity to use an S Pen, and I don’t anticipate I’ll miss it now.
If I ever wanted to scribble notes or annotate, I might use my index finger, which was all the time fast and correct sufficient for brief annotations. Alternatively, I might kind out my annotation – both in full, utilizing swipe to kind, or speech-to-text to hurry issues up.
Maybe this wasn’t wholly my resolution, nonetheless, as a result of the principle consider my S Pen utilization resolution isn’t that I do not need to use one, it’s that I don’t personal one.
The Z Fold line didn’t include an S Pen like Samsung’s Extremely telephones, which means you had to purchase the stylus individually. Furthermore, you’d want to seek out your individual storage answer for the S Pen, and in line with consumer evaluations on Samsung’s web site, its official S Pen Z Fold 6 case is past horrible.
So if S Pen utilization is low on Samsung’s foldables, I’m hardly shocked.
It’s not possible to know the way common the rumored revamped S Pen will likely be. Whereas many are dissatisfied by the Z Fold 7’s lack of a stylus, what number of of them have been ever actually planning to purchase the foldable, and would a brand new and improved stylus change their resolution?
I’ll by no means say no to a revamp, however the actual change I need to see is Samsung’s subsequent foldable dropping with the stylus within the field. That may make it a real Extremely equal as Samsung has promised for the Z Fold 7.
