We can officially call the last seven days “Galaxy week.” Samsung dominated the headlines with the announcement of the Galaxy S24 series, although rumors and leaks spoiled most of the surprises.
Of course, the Galaxy S24 Ultra outperformed the Galaxy S24 and S24+ thanks to its new 5x camera, titanium frame and new Corning glass, and, well, the fact that it’s Samsung’s biggest flagship of the year.
Artificial intelligence was at the center of the announcement: the new Galaxies enable a myriad of AI-based features. Circle to Search is a gesture-based feature made in collaboration with Google: long-press the Home button (or the gesture suggestion bar) and you can circle anything on the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s display and get more details about it. Transcript Assist will transcribe your voice notes and can summarize and even translate them. Interpreter is an app that gives two people speaking in foreign languages the ability to communicate, while Live Translate does the same within the Phone app.
The Galaxy S24 Ultra’s cameras feature a new ProVisual Engine that optimizes images on the fly. Artificial intelligence is used to move or remove objects and photobombers from the frame and then fill the empty space. The Galaxy S24 Ultra starts at $1,300/£1,250 for the 12GB/256GB model, or €1,450 in Europe, but there for some reason you only get 8GB of RAM with 256GB of storage.
The Galaxy S24 and S24+ also made their debut. Both phones will use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in South Korea, the US and China, and Samsung’s new in-house Exynos 2400 elsewhere. The Galaxy S24+ is the larger upgrade of the two with a slightly larger and much sharper LTPO display and a 5% larger battery.
Finally, Samsung has promised 7 years of software support for the Galaxy S24 series!
Specs, price, colors, cameras, S Pen, everything.
Samsung has improved the Galaxy S24 Ultra on all fronts.
However, the Galaxy AI service may not be free in the future.
Check out the S24 Ultra in all three official launch colors.
New displays, bigger batteries, and a brand new chipset, although the latter may not be an upgrade.
Three phones are on the way, Galaxy AI and One UI 6.1.
The AI features will arrive as part of an update to One UI 6.1.
In other news, we posted brief first looks of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro, Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G, and OnePlus 12.
The LTE only version is also available from us.
Let’s do a quick unboxing of the Redmi Note 13 Pro 5G before starting the review process.
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