Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra’s iPhone-like design means the S Pen is changing too

I like the return of the camera modules. I'm not fond of the rounded corners.

I've been daily driving the snot out of my note 20 ultra since it came out Aug 2020 - just over 5 years.

I use a case so slim that you can't tell there's a case at all. I've dropped it over a hundred times, from every height onto every surface imaginable, including face down on sharp pebbles on the pavement from 6 feet high. Never cracked or chipped the front or back.

I i use S-pen & charge phone daily and the battery still lasts almost all day, after 2,000 cycles and no additional software.

I killed bloatware apps when new, then ran slingshot extreme. It was the single highest score ever recorded in the app at the time - over 7800.

Copy/paste everything i just said about the Note 8 i had before this phone.

Battery, efficiency, construction, hardware, software and especially materials have all been upgraded.

Why would slight design changes even be factored in? Especially if you're using a case

This is basically the only indestructible phone, that's not designed with any planned obsolescence baked in, aside from 7 years of software support. If you keep trading in, you're paying around $100 a year for top tier phone and no headaches, repairs or surprises.