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Ryan Haines \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
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Modern smartphones may have the PDAs of yesteryear in their DNA, but over the past couple decades we\u2019ve seen advancement after advancement take this hardware to a level all its own. But even in an era of folding screens, a few companies have held on tenaciously to a few of those PDA features, and there\u2019s probably none more prominent than the input stylus. Motorola and its Moto G Stylus<\/a> represent an affordable option there, but for stylus fans who want flagship quality, the conversation has really begun and ended with Samsung.<\/p>\n Even with the Galaxy Note family retired, Samsung\u2019s commitment to its S Pen stylus has endured, but that doesn\u2019t mean it can just keep on coasting like always. We\u2019ve already heard that Samsung could be seriously changing up its approach to the S Pen with this summer\u2019s upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 7<\/a>, and now a new report claims the Galaxy S26 Ultra could be in for the very same fate \u2014 albeit with a possible silver lining.<\/p>\n We\u2019re looking a rumor shared today by leaker PandaFlash<\/a> on X, claiming that Samsung is removing its traditional digitizer from the S26 Ultra.<\/p>\n There are a number of ways to implement a stylus input system, and the one that Samsung favored with the S Pen involves an unpowered stylus that interacts with a field produced by a digitizer panel embedded in the phone\u2019s display package. And while that\u2019s very convenient, resulting in a tiny stylus that\u2019s easy to store, it\u2019s not without its trade-offs.<\/p>\n In further replies, the leaker attempts to confirm that Samsung would instead switch to the same tech it\u2019s employing on the Z Fold 7 for the S26 Ultra. The key difference there is that it would be an active, powered pen, which makes it unlikely it would pop out of a built-in slot on the phone, and instead would have to be carried separately, as is already the case for Samsung\u2019s foldables.<\/p>\n PandaFlash identifies reducing phone thickness as the priority here, which would be a consequence of removing the need for that digitizer layer. Now, we\u2019re not sure if this last part here is based on evidence, is a rumor, or could just be speculation, but it\u2019s maybe the most exciting part of this report.<\/p>\n Supposedly, this change could empower Samsung to build the S26 Ultra with the sort of embedded magnetic ring that supports Qi2 wireless charging<\/a>. With the S25 series, users have been stuck turning to third-party cases<\/a> to implement the needed magnets, and baking those in to the S26 Ultra itself would be a big step forward. We\u2019re just not at all sure yet how serious we should be taking it. Samsung has warned about magnets interfering with the S Pen<\/a>, so we can at least see the roots of where this theory makes sense.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve still got months to go before we\u2019re likely to know anything concrete about Samsung Galaxy S26 plans<\/a>, but between this and rumors of an advanced new SoC<\/a>, there\u2019s already good reason to be excited.<\/p>\n