My car costs multiple tens of thousands of euro and yet it's still only 24 months (people actually tried this one at a court, failed).
If you bought your Samsung phone in the EU, you will get the 24 month warranty automatically from all EU-native suppliers. Of course if you ship it from somewhere else like the US or Asia, it's very different. If it's from EU, send it in as non-functional.
There are many things that are counter-productive in the EU, this one is probably one of the smallest ones.
Here's a lawyer's take on it [1]. Although I'm not sure if its EU specific or NL specific. According to [2] [3] [4] there are some differences between NL and EU on this account. They specifically mention the car example in those sources, btw.
[1] https://blog.iusmentis.com/2018/09/27/honderden-klachten-ove...
[2] http://www.conformiteit.nl/conformiteit-conformiteitbeginsel...