Samsung didn’t talk much about the S Pen of the Galaxy S26 Ultra during the launch conference, fueling rumors of its cancellation. Well, Samsung MX COO confirmed that S Pen is here to stay and a major upgrade is already in the works.

MX Business COO Won Joon Choi says the S Pen remains a “core technology,” and more importantly, he teased a genuine Samsung S Pen Upgrade.

His exact words: “We’re working on a more advanced technology within S-Pen to come up with a new structure of display, so the penalty of having S-Pen is diminished.”

Revamped stylus in the works

Inside the Galaxy S Ultra chassis, the stylus silo eats into precious internal volume. That space could otherwise house a larger battery, improved cooling, or even more advanced camera hardware.

That phrase, the penalty of having S Pen, is doing a lot of heavy lifting. The “penalty” likely refers to two things: battery capacity and display stack complexity.

On foldables, S Pen support has required a digitizer layer. On slab phones, the internal silo constrains battery growth. If Samsung is talking about a “new structure of display,” it suggests a deeper hardware-level rethink.

One working theory is a more integrated digitizer solution baked directly into the OLED stack, reducing layering overhead. Another possibility is improved resonance technology that needs fewer internal components.

Rumors around the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and the so-called Wide Fold suggest a larger canvas and a different internal layout. If Samsung can reduce the display “penalty,” that opens the door for more seamless S Pen integration.

Source – Samsung Mobile Press

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