Marques

It does have an S Pen, but it's kind of just like a... They took away the Bluetooth in the S Pen already.

It's like a bigger S26+.

I mean, my theory is like last year for Q1 2025, of all the Samsung phones sold, the S25 was the third highest selling with the two before it being the cheap phones, like the pay-as-you-go phones, which sell a crazy amount.

And so I think that they probably just want to make the Ultra more appealable to more people and seem less aggressive so that more people are content with it.

It's really interesting.

Because everyone in the United States, not everyone in the United States, but a large chunk of the United States just buys phones through carriers anyway on carrier plans.

And so most of these companies are selling the most expensive phone to the most people.

So at least in the United States.

The iPhone 16 apparently did sell more than the 16 Pro Max in the Q1 of 2025, but the Pro Max is always near the top.

So I don't know.

I'm assuming they're just trying to sort of like make it a little more simple so it appeals to more people.

Well, you know, they also narrowed the difference in price between the base phone and the Max or the Ultra.

Did they at least raise the storage?

So they did.

Because the iPhone did this too.

Yeah.

So last year, S25 was $799.

yes samsung just took away a cheaper option yeah and kind of like played it off with like well you get more storage it's like yeah but you could have gotten that same phone for the same price yeah storage so there is no storage is crazy right now it's like have the cost of the phone so there is no 128 gig version of the of the s26 at all it starts at 256 gigs okay and that phone is is nine is eight is nine hundred dollars 899 for the regular one regular s26 that's

Garbage.

So then it's 256 gig, 1100 for the S26 Plus.