Samsung said on Wednesday that the Galaxy S24’s artificial intelligence features are more advanced than last year’s phones (including folding ones) and tablets at the end of March. Engadget’s Sam Rutherford reported on it in January The AI suite will be available soon above Galaxy S23 series, Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5 and Tab S9. Today’s announcement makes that device list official, adding a more specific arrival window of late March 2024.
That group of 2,023 devices will receive the firmware update next month AI features from the S24 series. These include communication-based AI tricks like Chat Assist (adjusts message tone and translates messages), Live Translate (real-time voice and text translations), and Translator (split-screen translation for private conversations).
They will also get productivity-based AI features Circular to search (search for anything on your screen by dragging a ring around it), Note Assist (note formatting, summaries and translations), View Assist (news summaries) and Transcript Assist (write and summarize meeting notes).
Finally, image-based AI features coming to these devices include Generative Editing (reframe footage, move or delete and replace objects), Motion Edit (recommended image adjustments), and Instant Slow-Mo (create additional frames to convert standard video) . to slow motion).
The full list of devices receiving the update starting in March includes the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+Galaxy S23 Ultra, Galaxy S23 FE, Galaxy Z Fold 5Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Galaxy Tab S9. But Samsung says more devices can be expected to join them later. “This is just the beginning of Galaxy AI as we plan to bring the experience to more than 100 million Galaxy users in 2024 and continue to innovate ways to harness the limitless capabilities of mobile AI,” Samsung president TM Roh wrote in a press release.
We were mostly impressed by our AI features Galaxy S24 Ultra review. Engadget’s Sam Rutherford wrote in January: “While the use of AI isn’t a particularly exciting development at a time when everyone and their grandmother is trying to fit it into everything, it makes the S24 Ultra a more powerful and well-rounded phone.”
While he saw a few hiccups in the AI tools at launch, he found most of them to be a really useful complement to the phone’s high-end hardware. “Samsung has finally responded to the sophisticated features that were previously only available in the Pixel family,” he said. “Sure, S24’s tools aren’t as polished as Google’s offerings, but they get you 80-90 percent of the way.”
