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- A teardown reveals that the Galaxy S25 Ultra still has the setup 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 though it isn’t powered.
- Samsung may have originally planned to keep Bluetooth functionality or left the door open for a future premium S Pen accessory.
There was a lot of disappointment at the revelation that the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra S Pen does not have Bluetooth functionality like its predecessor. Not that many people used it, but it still feels like a downgrade on a premium-priced model, and the price of the accessory is unchanged. There was some hope that Samsung might reverse that decision at some point after a teardown of the Android phone showed a charging coil that only a Bluetooth S Pen would need. Now we’re learning that the S Pen itself has the same circuit board as its predecessor. Unfortunately, it’s empty.
Posting on X, iFixit showed a side-by-side comparison of the internal components of the S Pen for the Galaxy S24 Ultra and S25 Ultra. Strangely, the S25 Ultra S Pen has the same layout and even a printed circuit board to match the S24 Ultra model. What’s missing is all of the components.
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