Samsung has been shipping the S Pen stylus with Galaxy devices. The company has been doing that for over 15 years now. Since then, the S Pen has relied on the same Electromagnetic Resonance (EMR) technology.
According to the rumours of some months ago, it’s likely that Samsung will move to a newer S Pen technology with the Galaxy S27 Ultra, but that may not happen.
ETNews reports reveal that Samsung tested a new type of stylus for the Galaxy S27 Ultra but decided not to use it. EMR requires a digitizer to be embedded in the display. AES, another stylus technology, doesn’t depend on a digitizer. Rather, it uses a stylus with a built-in battery as well as an internal power system. It also relies on the capacitive touchscreen to register input. This process thickens the stylus.
More reports show that Samsung developed a new stylus technology. It combines the advantages of both AES and EMR, thereby eliminating the need for a battery or a digitizer. The company has postponed the adoption of this technology, and the report doesn’t explain the cause for the delay.
Samsung might probably end up moving away from EMR, as the Qi2 wireless charging standard requires neodymium magnets to be placed inside smartphones, which can interfere with the EMR-based S Pen.
It may be that Samsung is waiting for its new technology to mature before introducing it in future Galaxy S Ultra devices.
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