TechPhonesAndroid PhonesThe Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 won’t have a key feature. And I don’t think you’ll mindSamsung seems to have abandoned its plans to make the Z Fold 5 more like the Samsung Galaxy S23 UltraWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesAndroid PhonesThe Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 won’t have a key feature. And I don’t think you’ll mindSamsung seems to have abandoned its plans to make the Z Fold 5 more like the Samsung Galaxy S23 UltraWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Samsung seems to have abandoned its plans to make the Z Fold 5 more like the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
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Samsung’sGalaxy Z Fold 4is without a doubt one of thebest folding phonesyou can buy, and while admittedly that’s a small field right now – rivals such as theOppo Find N2 Flip, while brilliant, are targeted more at theGalaxy Z Flip 4– the Fold is one of thebest Android phonesof any shape or size. But it seems that some Samsung fans will be unhappy with the next version, theSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 5.
That’s according to Samsung news siteSamMobile, which reports that Samsung has tried putting an S Pen slot into its flagship folding phone – and that it’s decided not to, at least in the next generation.
I really don’t think this is a big deal for many people.
When it comes to folding phones, size matters
The thing about S Pen storage is that you need it to be big enough for an S Pen. And in a folding phone, much more so than in a standard phone, size really matters. It’s safe to say that if there were any extra room inside the Z Fold 4, Samsung would have made it smaller already; I can only assume that its experiments with adding an S Pen slot to its prototypes created more bulk than Samsung was happy with.
As much as I rate the S Pen, which I know many Samsung fans love, I’m not sure the people who buy folding phones are planning to use it as a journalist-style notepad for stylus-based scribbling. And while I’m sure that there are a small group of people who do want to use it for just that, Samsung does cater for them already: the Z Fold 3 and Z Fold 4 have S Pen support. They just don’t have a built-in storage slot for it.
If you’re the kind of person who really, really, really likes the S Pen but refuses to buy a phone that doesn’t have a space to put it, Samsung already has the solution: theSamsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. It’s one of thebest phonesyou can buy full stop, and while it doesn’t fold that really shouldn’t be a deal-breaker.
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