Why no magnets in Galaxy S26? Samsung R&D chief explains

Why? I requested Samsung’s Won-Joon Choi, the manager in cost of both R&D and operations for Samsung’s cell enterprise. He says the added thickness of magnets is a nasty tradeoff to make, since you’re simply going to purchase a case anyhow.

“About 80 or 90 percent of people are using a case, and cases with magnets are very popular these days,” he tells me.

Samsung would slightly use that further peak to provide the telephone a bigger battery or make it thinner, he says.

That doesn’t imply Samsung isn’t trying into magnets. “We’re still doing a lot of research to make sure we don’t have any sacrifice inside the phone; when we actually achieve that, we’ll integrate,” he says.

Personally, I disagree with Choi’s premise. I need further battery and magnets, and I’m keen to sacrifice thinness to get it. Phones are skinny sufficient already, aside from those that fold.

And if Samsung took cost of the magnets like Apple, and replicated Apple’s customary sample and power, perhaps the magnet case I exploit with my Galaxy S25 would correctly and firmly maintain onto magnetic battery packs with out them rotating in place. Since there’s no magnets inside my telephone, I’m on the mercy of casemakers.

But I get it. Why make the tradeoff if somebody can pay for a case anyhow? Seems like we have to ask Apple and Google why they selected in another way.