The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra could be the S Pen’s last dance – here's why
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra could be the S Pen’s last dance – here's why
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The writing is on the wall for this once mighty stylus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The S Pen has been a feature of every Samsung Galaxy Ultra model since the Galaxy S22 Ultra, and that trend continues with the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. However, this feels like the final time we’ll see the S Pen in a Samsung phone.
![[The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 with its stylus half inserted in the slot]](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jviJR4sgBZVCXTyVnfVXfc-320-80.jpg)
At Samsung’s latest Galaxy Unpacked launch event, Galaxy AI was front and center, yet the S Pen wasn’t even a side note. It wasn’t mentioned. Like, at all. Give Samsung’s official press release a read – which, admittedly, covers three new S25 devices – and you’ll notice that the S Pen gets one solitary mention in the small print clarifying the S25 Ultra’s IP68 water resistance credentials.
![[An image of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra from a hands-on event]](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iYpQEtPLPietW4ENbaLocN-320-80.jpg)
It’s a sorry state of affairs for a stylus that Samsung claimed, only a few years ago, was “rewriting the rules for mobile.". The S Pen was once an important point of differentiation for Samsung, not only against its competitors but within its own range of phones; the accessory drew a clear line in the sand between the Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series.
![[John McCann]](https://vanilla.futurecdn.net/cyclingnews/media/img/missing-image.svg)
Introduced with the first Samsung Galaxy Note handset in 2011, the S Pen (or Pen S, as a former colleague of mine once termed it) arrived inside the phone itself. It was a slender stylus you could slide out of the phone’s body and use on the then-massive 5.3-inch display.
Over the years, Samsung refined and improved the S Pen, increasing the levels of pressure sensitivity, fine-tuning the design, and adding more functionality. For creatives and productivity lovers, the S Pen was a must-have accessory for working and sketching on the go.
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