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- A demolition reveals that the Galaxy S25 Ultra still has the layout for a Bluetooth S pen, but the actual components are missing.
- This follows the discovery that the phone contains a charging coil for the S pen, even if it is not driven.
- Samsung may have originally planned to keep Bluetooth functionality or abandoned the door open to a future Premium S pen.
There was a lot of disappointment about the revelation that Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra S Pen Does not have Bluetooth functionality as its predecessor. Not so many people used it, but it still feels like a downward adjustment on a premium-priced model, and the price of the accessories is unchanged. There was any hope that Samsung could reverse that decision at some point after a demolition of Android -Phone showed a charging coil that only a Bluetooth s pen would need. Now we learn that the S -pen itself has the same circuit board as its predecessor. Unfortunately, it’s empty.
Posts on xIFIXIT showed a comparison of side by side of the internal components of the S-pen for the Galaxy S24 Ultra and S25 Ultra. Oddly enough, the S25 Ultra S pen has the same design and even a printed circuit board to match the S24 Ultra model. What is missing is all the components.
In its own Galaxy S25 degradation of YouTube, the Ifixit program manager explains that the company used Lumafield’s Nepture CT scanner to see in the two generations of the accessories. Not only is the circuit board not populated, but the capacitor that will charge the unit is missing.
This discovery raises further questions about Samsung’s decisions. If the company had already designed the layout to accommodate a Bluetooth-activated P-PEN, why remove the actual functionality? One possibility is that Samsung originally planned to retain the function, but scraped it late in development, either for cost-saving reasons or due to low user engagement with Bluetooth-dependent functions such as air actions.
Another explanation is that Samsung wanted to leave the door open to a premium Bluetooth’s PEN – accessory down the line – one that it could sell separately to users who still want these features. However, this theory is complicated by Samsung’s previous statement that the Galaxy S25 Ultra does not support a Bluetooth-enabled S pen at all.
In any case, it is still unclear whether Samsung can reintroduce Bluetooth functionality in the future. The presence of a charging coil and an unused circuit board suggests that the phone’s design is not completely incompatible with a driven stylus, but if Samsung will change courses remains to be seen.
Currently, S Pen users will have to settle for a more basic experience -one that feels like a step backwards for the Ultra series. At least the sp of the year Still smelling the same.