Quite impressive that Samsung have fully adaptive 120 hz refresh screens across their whole S24 line up. One day, hopefully Apple will follow suit and offer the same for their 'regular' iPhones, which is shamefully well overdue.
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Samsung Launches New Galaxy S24 Smartphone Lineup
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So the machine will try to make us sound more correctly human?
I saw a lot of “This feature requires a wifi or cellular connection” caveats when I checked out the new Galaxy phones on Samsung’s website. Makes me wonder why the phones are being sold as the fancy new AI destination and not the software.
Nonsense. Also Samsung introduced circe on anything on the screen to search. Tap on text to select was a Google Lense features way before Apple copied it.
You do know the first to introduce Ray Tracing on mobile were Samsung with their custom RDNA Mobil GPU? By your logic APPLE COPIED SAMSUNG 😂
Also Samsung is not allowed to develop a VR Headset now? absolutely ridiculous.
And what "technical innovations" has Apple introduced with iphones in recent years? I'm really curious.
This! Took me a year to get used to when switching from Samsung to iPhone and every time I use another phone with universal back swipe it reminds me how much less intuitive the Apple version is. Alas. Can't have everything I guess.
So, let's sum it up. S24/24+ design goes 1 to 1 with the iPhones. The titanium chasys on S24 Ultra copies the material used on 15 Pro Models. Flat Screens, live stickers, "Samsung" Care+, optional Portrait Mode after the photo is taken... Heck, they've even downgraded their optical zoom to 5x just to match that on 15PM. How much more pathetic they can be?
Read the fine print. The “titanium” frame is just a coating. The buttons aren’t even coated. 🚮
The frames are not the same. Samsung doesn’t mention anything about 6ai-4v. Which means it’s definitely a lessor grade. Not to mention it’s just a plating or coating. They don’t even plate the buttons 🤣🤣🤣
Apple is so far behind AI – unless there are really big advancements announced at WWDC – that I fear AI could be to Apple what iPhone was to Nokia.
Siri is so basic compared to this. We need a better personal assistant.
The AI is not on device, it's all done on google servers and will only be free for the first 2 years. Samsung has to pay for it.
Cool, but will it survive a 16k foot fall from an airplane?
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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Interestingly upgrading the S23 Ultra to the S24 Ultra with their equivalent care package (512 Gb) is about $650. When I went from the 14 Pro Max to 15 Pro Max with Apple Care+, the cost was nearly $1000 (if I used Apple's trade in). Samsung really make it worth your while to upgrade and costs are way less than Apple. Apple simply do not care.
It’s not that Apple don’t care . Apple knows people are gonna flock to there new devices regardless so why not shaft the customers 🤓😬👦🤷🏽
No, that would be Apple copying Samsung. Remember, Macrumors is against companies copying eachother.
Regarding the Galaxy AI features, it's probably worth noting that they may only be included for free until 2025. According to the fine print on the Samsung website, "Galaxy AI features will be provided for free until the end of 2025 on supported Samsung Galaxy devices. Different terms may apply for AI features provided by third parties."
They are. During the presentation Samsung made it a point to show that in the settings you can opt in or out of web based computations for the ProVisual Engine on Galaxy S24 Series.