- Samsung is reportedly contemplating an Apple Pencil-like S Pen for the Galaxy Z Fold 7
- This could be thicker than present S Pens however permit the telephone itself to be thinner, as a result of lack of a digitizer
- It would additionally imply the pen wants charging
Samsung might be planning some substantial adjustments for the Galaxy Z Fold 7, each to the system itself and the S Pen you should use with it.
This is in keeping with a report on ET News (through @Jukanlosreve), which states that Samsung is contemplating a special sort of expertise for the S Pen – one which doesn’t require a digitizer.
With the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, there’s a digitizer, which is a layer on the display screen that registers enter from a stylus. Without it, you wouldn’t be capable of use Samsung’s present S Pen on Samsung telephones – that is why the S Pen doesn’t work with the South Korea-only Samsung Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition, as Samsung eliminated the digitizer to make the telephone thinner.
According to this report, although, Samsung might change to an Apple Pencil-like expertise for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7’s S Pen, which might permit it to work and not using a digitizer. The advantages listed below are apparent – the telephone might be slimmer whereas nonetheless permitting you to make use of a stylus.
There are, nevertheless, some downsides to this method too, as whereas this expertise permits for the telephone to be thinner, it makes the pen thicker, because the pen quite than the show has to generate the electrical present that enables it to work together with the display screen. That additionally means it wants a battery and desires charging.
Technically, a few of Samsung’s S Pens may be charged already, however that is solely required for his or her Bluetooth options – fundamental interactions with the display screen may be carried out even and not using a cost.
Weighing it up
According to this report, Samsung remains to be deciding whether or not these trade-offs are worthwhile, and can finalize its resolution early subsequent yr, so it’s nonetheless attainable that nothing will change within the firm’s S Pen method.
If it does undertake this new system, although, then the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is likely to be round 1.5mm thinner than it will in any other case be, as that’s how a lot slimmer the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition is than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6.
If it matches the Special Edition, it is going to be 10.6mm thick when folded and 4.9mm when unfolded, although in fact different variations might additionally have an effect on the thickness.
However, since this is able to make the stylus thicker, it’s not a change we think about Samsung making for the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra the next yr; Samsung’s Ultra telephones have a slot in them for the stylus, and that slot would then have to be made bigger, so the telephone in all probability would not find yourself any thinner total.
