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Samsung Launches New Galaxy S24 Smartphone Lineup

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Samsung today announced the launch of the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra, its new flagship smartphones that are designed to compete with the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max.


Artificial intelligence is the focus of Samsung's new S24 devices, with all three offering Galaxy AI. Galaxy AI supports Live Translate for two-way real-time voice and text translation in phone calls, and an Interpreter function translates live conversations on a split-view so two people can converse in different languages.

Chat Assist can help users perfect conversational tones, and AI built into the Samsung Keyboard can translate messages in real-time in 13 languages. Android Auto is able to summarize incoming messages and suggest relevant replies, Transcript Assist uses AI to transcribe, summarize, and translate recordings, and a Note Assist feature in Samsung Notes offers AI-generated summaries and templates. Samsung also partnered with Google to offer "Circle to Search," an option that lets S24 users circle, highlight, scribble on, or tap items on the S24 display to see search results.

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Samsung's high-end Galaxy S24 Ultra pairs AI with camera improvements. Samsung has done away with its 10x zoom lens, opting instead for a Quad Tele System with a 50-megapixel 5x optical zoom lens, which is the optical zoom level that Apple settled on.

The S24 Ultra has a larger pixel size and an improved optical image stabilization system to cut down on hand-shake for reduced blur, plus the ProVisual Engine AI system allows for enhanced digital zoom, more light capture in dim conditions, and better noise reduction when recording video. Galaxy AI editing tools allow for edits like erase, recompose, and remaster, and Edit Suggestions suggests tweaks for each photo. Generative Edit can fill in parts of an image background with generative AI when removing an object or correcting a crooked image.

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The Galaxy S24 Ultra is equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon Gen 3 Mobile Platform, which Samsung says has been optimized for AI processing and requires enhanced thermal control. All three models support 1 to 120Hz adaptive refresh rates for the displays, with the Ultra offering the brightest Galaxy display to date at 2,600 nits peak brightness. Samsung is using Corning's Gorilla Armor for improved durability and scratch resistance on the Ultra, along with reduced reflection. Like Apple's A17 Pro, Samsung's latest chips support ray tracing for gaming.

Samsung tweaked the design of the Ultra and it now offers a 6.8-inch flat display that's optimized for viewing, while the Galaxy S24 now measures in at 6.2 inches and the S24+ measures in at 6.7 inches. The screen size enhancements have been made through reductions in bezel size to keep the device size about the same.

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Samsung copied Apple's iPhone 15 Pro lineup and the S24 Ultra is available with a titanium frame in gray, black, violet, yellow, green, blue, and orange.

The Galaxy S24 Ultra is priced starting at $1,300, the S24+ is priced starting at $1,000, and the S24 is priced starting at $800.

Samsung's Galaxy S24 lineup is available for pre-order as of today, and Samsung is offering several deals. For the S24 Ultra, customers can get up to $750 off with a trade-in, along with an exclusive $50 Samsung credit, a free storage upgrade (doubling storage at no cost), and a $100 eCertificate, plus students can get a 15 percent discount.

For the S24+, up to a $650 trade-in credit is available with a $50 Samsung credit, storage upgrade, $75 eCertificate, and a 7.5 percent student discount. For the S24, up to a $550 trade-in credit is available, along with a $50 Samsung credit, a storage upgrade, a $25 eCertificate, and a five percent discount for students.

Customers can also receive 20 percent off Samsung Care+ with Theft and Loss with the purchase of any Galaxy S24 series device.

Best Buy is offering up to $870 off the S24 series with trade-in and pre-order, with a storage upgrade and up to a $150 Best Buy gift card.

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Starting price is $1,300. Yikes.

Here we are thinking the Fold line prices will decrease year to year…guess a higher price is incoming for the Fold6.
 
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Absolutely look like incredible phones.
But I still don’t see regular consumers caring much about AI and the more and more companies go on about it the less and less consumers seem to care.
All the “non-techy” people I know, whenever you even mention AI, just say they want it to “GO AWAY”.

There was a reason that Apple never uttered those letters once at last years WWDC keynote, despite introducing several features clearly using it.
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
Absolutely look like incredible phones.
But I still don’t see regular consumers caring much about AI
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Did you see the AI-based photo-editing features in the video? Consumers very much care about those. Also the “make my email sound more professional”.

Consumers may have some skepticism about AI in general (for good reasons), but they certainly find such features cool and handy.
 
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Are the AI features done on device? I’m assuming we will eventually see similar features in iOS but they’ll be on device and private.
 
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I can’t appreciate or support a company that sells 3 different processors with 3 different performances and struggles to deliver timely software updates, and when it does, it’s limited to only one model.

PS: Avoid buying any product that has AI next to its name.
 
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decypher44 said:
If I wasn’t so heavily locked into Apple’s ecosystem. Everything I have is Apple, but I’d love to switch phones to the Ultra. I wish there was real interoperability.
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It's not going to happen without Apple being dragged into an antitrust case. And to date they've been way sneakier / more agile than that - but it is a nice pipedream.

I really don't care for the OS or in some cases the phones, but at the same time it's mostly good enough and at this point I can't live without iMessage, Facetime and the H1. And I'm sure Apple will come up with yet more to keep me firmly rooted in the ecosystem.
 
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