A new rumor claims that the location of the S Pen stylus on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 has been abandoned. However, it is a long-awaited novelty, especially since the format of this folding smartphone offers a large panel to perform the best use of it. The reasons would be mainly technical: adding an S Pen to the body of the phone would make it too thick when it’s already thick enough.
Last year in our review of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, one of the negatives we raised was the lack of storage for the S Pen stylus. This greatly reduces the interest of the accessory, which cannot be unsheathed as easily as with the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, which allows it to be stored indoors, for example. A location that would still not be available on its successor, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5, if we are to believe the media. ET News – through mobile syrup.
Still no S Pen slot on the Galaxy Z Fold 5
The Korean site reports that Samsung has decided not to add storage for its stylus in the next version of its full-size foldable smartphone. He says he knows the manufacturer tried to do it, but eventually abandoned the idea, due to lack of space on the high-end smartphone. Information from an industrial report dated February 19, when it was the will of the brand and such a location was part of previous rumors.
A source familiar with the matter said ET News that “The hinge structure of the next generation of folding products has changed, and the structure of the internal space has also changed, making it difficult to mount the S Pen » . The source added that it is difficult to fit a stylus next to a battery. Although the autonomy of the Galaxy Z Fold 4 is comfortable, if we use the large internal screen too much, it tends to decrease considerably.
In reality, the technical hurdles would still be too great. Technically, it would be possible to integrate the stylus, but this would make the foldable smartphone thicker, despite the fact that the thickness of the Galaxy Z Fold 4 is 14.2mm in the folded position (up to 15.8mm if you have it in the folded position). count the block of photos), which is already equivalent to the thickness of about two smartphones.
This reduces the compactness of the device and makes it more difficult to transport, which is the philosophical antithesis of the foldable smartphone. In addition, this could have caused a price increase, although the economic context is forcing Samsung to increase its prices (this happened with the arrival of the S23 series, more expensive than last year’s S22).
The Galaxy Z Fold could one day carry an S Pen
However, all is not lost: according to ET News always, ” Samsung is working on technology that will make the stylus thinner while improving the writing experience. In other words, it is not the smartphone that would become thicker, but the stylus that would become thinner. For the media, Samsung would be far from abandoning the idea of a stylus in book-format folding smartphones and would like to improve the experience.
As with the Galaxy Z Fold 4, we can expect the Galaxy Z Fold 5 to launch next August, alongside the Galaxy Z Flip 5.
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