Bring Back the Bluetooth S Pen – I Won’t Upgrade Until You Do

[ElGueroCarlos]

I’ve been a loyal Galaxy Ultra customer for years, and the S Pen was always one of the defining reasons I chose Samsung over every other brand.

With the Galaxy S25 Ultra, removing the Bluetooth functionality from the S Pen was a huge letdown. I relied on features like:

Remote photo capture

Air gestures

Presentation navigation

Media control from a distance

These weren’t just gimmicks — they were powerful tools that made the Ultra line feel complete. Taking them away makes this device feel like a downgrade, not a progression.

I’m willing to wait — even until the S27 — but I will not purchase another Samsung flagship until these features return. And I know I’m not alone.

Please hear your loyal base. We want the real Ultra experience back.

Thank you,

Carlos Ariel Carlos Mata

[Oxford]

You and I and a very small select group of others are part of a very tiny minority that use the S-Pen to its fullest potential. Unfortunately, it makes no sense for Samsung to keep this functionality alive for such a small group of people. This is similar to me loving a particular new flavor of coffee at Starbucks, and suddenly they pull it from the menu and you can no longer order it. What do you do, you adapt to something else!

[ElGueroCarlos]

Would you be so kind as to show me the data and sources please?

[Tom6068]

You are in a very small percentile of Galaxy phone users who care about that, like 1%. I personally do not care about the Spen one iota and it has no real use for me. I am not saying that because of my own preferences that has yours does not matter, but from a business standpoint, the Spen became a liability to valuable hardware real estate.

Other manufacturers (mostly Chinese) are way ahead of smartphone makers who control the west in sales, notably Apple and Samsung. Their hardware rarely changes on any substantial basis while Chinese phone are killing them. And in the US and Canada especially, they block these phone from import and from even working on networks because of influence form Samsung and Apple who do not want competition.

Most people buy their smartphones on the high end for their cameras and Samsung especially is lagging behind. None of the big makers use a 1" pixel sensor while there are numerous Chinese brands that do and even a bit larger. If they removed the Spen altogether, this would allow for better camera hardware and a larger battery. And I have had people say that is not true for Spen lovers. But if it actually came down to two different Samsung Ultra devices, one still having the Spen and the other with a 1" sensor featuring better camera hardware, bigger battery, believe that those Spen adherents would not reach for the Spen device.

[ElGueroCarlos]

Would you be so kind as to show me the data and sources please ?

[ToxicPoptart]

Data is from Samsungs mouth directly

[ElGueroCarlos]

Very interesting. I am sure they are not just trying to sell us more products that can use those features jajajaj. Samsung, I am so disappointed in you. You are getting close to losing me.

[ToxicPoptart]

Yeah I'm considering the move to pixel at this point for my next phone

[TipsyTrex]

There is no source behind the 1% claim beyond samsung marketing claiming it without providing metrics. We all know its bs. The S25U lost Bluetooth because samsung wants to upsell the ring/watch, which have camera control, and one way to do that is to remove alternative free ways of camera control.

The decision to pull Bluetooth was so last minute that the S-pen was not physically altered and all the hardware remains *except* the battery was removed from the S-Pen. There is a gigantic cavity in the s-pen now that creates a serious weak spot. The hardware to still exists internally to charge the S-pen and the S-pen has the same control board as the previous Bluetooth enabled ones. Briefly, samsung tried arguing the change was to make it lighter. This did not hold up when it was noticed the Bluetooth free Note8 S-pen is lighter despite having a solid core.

Theyre so insistent that you stop thinking about the S-pen as a camera shutter that you cannot pair and use a Bluetooth S-pen as a camera shutter (basic pen features will still work) from a different model to the S25U despite this working fine in prior devices. This is not a "not enough people used it" thing, its a "we want people to stop using it" thing.

[Oxford]

...and your sources for your "facts" are from where? If you need a camera shutter device, go to amazon, they have plenty of keychain Bluetooth shutter buttons under $5.