In final week’s ballot, we mentioned that Samsung in all probability checked out utilization statistics earlier than deciding to axe the distant management performance from the S Pen on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely – effectively, possibly they need to have had one other look. Admittedly, our readers are extra tech savvy than common smartphone homeowners and extra prone to be energy customers. With that in thoughts, a worrying variety of voters within the ballot are going to overlook the distant options.
Studying by the feedback, many think about the distant shutter operate one thing that is useful occasionally. Others really feel extra strongly about it, saying that this Bluetooth-based performance is what made the S Pen particular (different styluses normally restrict themselves to stress sensitivity and an eraser operate).
Both manner, it’s clear that two-thirds of voters use the S Pen distant features at the least generally and can miss them in the event that they improve to an S25 Extremely.
Once more, voters right here usually tend to be energy customers, however if you happen to model a tool as “Extremely”, you shouldn’t be stunned when folks count on it to be a best-of-the-best, no-compromises cellphone. Particularly when mentioned cellphone carries a $1,300/€1,470 price ticket.
Samsung could also be pondering of eradicating the S Pen completely – that was at all times extra of a Galaxy Observe characteristic than a Galaxy S one. Alas, the Observe collection is not any extra. Anyway, eradicating the S Pen might deliver some upsides, e.g. a bigger battery. However solely eradicating the distant management options is a strict downgrade and that might harm the Galaxy S25 Extremely in the long term.
That mentioned, the S25 collection is off to a robust begin and, in South Korea at the least, extra folks ordered the Extremely than those that obtained an S25 and S25+ put collectively. We’ll see if that momentum holds after the pre-order interval.
