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The TechRadar Podcast team discusses the evolving landscape of foldable phones, focusing on the surprising twist of stylus support. While Samsung has moved away from S Pen support on its foldables, rumors suggest Apple might embrace the Apple Pencil for its own 'iPad phone' concept.

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00:00This is being treated as the iPad phone, effectively.
00:03On that note, it's got stylus support.
00:07And that is something that Samsung does not have anymore.
00:10I always find it funny, and Graham Barlow, our AI editor, wrote in a story today
00:15that Steve Jobs once said that, who wants a stylus in an iPhone?
00:19Well, now we are right back around to that.
00:21Samsung foldables don't support the stylus anymore.
00:23No, they dropped it a while ago.
00:25Really?
00:26Yes.
00:26When things went ultra thin, they couldn't fit the layer in that would be responsive to it.
00:30I think it's also the S Pen, which I think has like, I don't know,
00:33the iPhone stylus is a bit chunky, so it might have more tech in it
00:36that would allow them to get away without so many layers in the actual phone.
00:39And they're not worried about embedding it in the phone at all either.
00:42Yeah, I think that's the other things.
00:43Samsung, you're so used to it being like the S26 Ultra, you put it in the phone.
00:48There's nowhere to put it in there.
00:49You can buy third-party styluses that work in terms of navigating the display,
00:53but it doesn't have that functionality of the S Pen.
00:54No more like Nintendo DSing.
00:57When this will be exclusively the USB-C model of the Apple Pencil as well.
01:02?
01:02So,

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