Samsung Galaxy Fold 5 Will Not Have an S Pen Slot, however Might Proceed to Supply Assist: Report

Samsung’s S Pen was a staple of the Galaxy Be aware lineup, which appears to be no extra, after the corporate selected integrating its S Pen with its top-end Galaxy S Extremely mannequin. The primary machine to take action was final 12 months’s Galaxy S22 Extremely, which got here with its personal S-Pen slot that holds the S Pen securely contained in the machine when it isn’t in use. Whereas there have been rumours and studies about Samsung integrating its S Pen stylus into its Galaxy Z Fold mannequin, there’s now a brand new report which seems to place an finish to these claims, stating that Samsung tried to combine the stylus into the upcoming Galaxy Fold 5, however needed to cancel the concept because of area and design restrictions.

A earlier report round November final 12 months, claimed that Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 5 will include an S Pen slot. Now a brand new report by ETNews (in Korean) states that Samsung tried, however needed to drop the concept after operating into issues with securing sufficient inner area for the stylus.

The report claims that Samsung Electronics internally pushed for correct S Pen integration because it was requested by many. It additionally made higher sense to have an built-in S Pen as customers may merely pull it out and draw on the bigger tablet-like show. Whereas Samsung reportedly managed to efficiently combine the S Pen within the foldable, it ended up making the machine very thick when folded, which conflicted with the bottom thought {that a} foldable must get thinner (or extra pocketable) when folded.

Samsung additionally reportedly tried to make a thinner S Pen, nevertheless it ended up lowering the writing really feel as it isn’t snug to carry a stylus that is too skinny. The price of integrating a standard S Pen into the Fold was additionally fairly excessive.

The corporate is at the moment making an attempt to enhance the writing really feel whereas making the S Pen thinner, however will solely launch it when Samsung believes it’s as efficient because the common stylus, the report states. Including to Samsung’s issues is the brand new hinge design, which the corporate is anticipated to debut with the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 5. An unnamed official advised ETNews that the brand new construction for the foldable’s hinge has modified, which makes it very troublesome to mount the S Pen. On a aspect notice, Samsung may additionally go together with the Microsoft Floor Duo 2’s design which lets the flatter Floor Slim Pen 2 magnetically snap on the machine.