Current:Home > ScamsSamsung debuts Galaxy S24 smartphones with built-in AI tools -NextWave Wealth Hub
Samsung debuts Galaxy S24 smartphones with built-in AI tools
View
Date:2025-04-14 17:33:11
Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its latest lineup of Galaxy smartphones featuring a suite of baked-in AI tools, as it aims to widen the appeal of its Android devices and win back its spot as the world's biggest phone seller from Apple.
The company debuted the devices during its annual product launch in San Jose, California, emphasizing the new AI integrations, including smart translation and interpretation services and in-app image searches. The focus on AI marks a shift in the tech giant's previous hardware-heavy approach to developing and marketing its smartphones.
The next-generation lineup includes three phones:
- The Galaxy S24, which retails for $799.99
- The Galaxy S24 Plus, which costs $999.99
- The Galaxy S24 Ultra, which is priced at $1,299.99
The Galaxy S24 Ultra's price represents a price hike of $100, or an 8% increase, from last year's comparable model. The increase mirrors what Apple did with its fanciest model, the iPhone 15 Pro Max, released in September.
Customers can preorder the devices starting Wednesday. The new phones will begin shipping on January 31.
Here's what to expect from Samsung's next-generation Galaxy smartphones.
Live foreign language interpretations
The new phone will allow users to access a function that enables foreign language interpretation during calls. The feature will support 13 languages and 17 dialects, and it will be accessible for calls to and from any type of smartphones as well as landlines.
The feature saves users' preferred language settings, in addition to collecting data on which languages are used on each of the users' phone calls.
In-app image searches
Google will offer "Circle To Search" on the newest Galaxy smartphones, allowing users to circle snippets of text, parts of photos or videos to get instant search results about whatever has been highlighted.
The new Galaxy phones will also enable quick and easy ways to manipulate the appearance and placement of specific parts of pictures taken on the devices' camera. It's a feature that could help people refine their photos, but could also make it easier to create misleading images.
AI-powered photo editing tools
The new smartphones will come with a range of AI-powered photo editing tools. With the generative edit tool, users can erase or modify the position of objects in their images, in addition to filling in images' borders to correct a crooked photo frame.
Galaxy's AI will also offer an edit suggestion option, allowing users to receive automated feedback on how to optimize and tweak their photos.
How does this compare with Apple's iPhones?
Apple is expected to put more AI into its next generation of iPhones in September, but now Samsung has a head start toward gaining the upper hand in making the technology more ubiquitous, Forrester Research analyst Thomas Husson said.
It's a competitive edge that Samsung could use, having ceded its longstanding mantle as the world's largest seller of smartphones to Apple last year, according to the market research firm International Data Corp.
"Samsung's marketing challenge is precisely to make the technology transparent to impress consumers with magic and invisible experiences," Husson said.
—With reporting by the Associated Press.
- In:
- Smartphone
- AI
Elizabeth Napolitano is a freelance reporter at CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and technology news. She also writes for CoinDesk. Before joining CBS, she interned at NBC News' BizTech Unit and worked on The Associated Press' web scraping team.
veryGood! (59653)
Related
- Nevada attorney general revives 2020 fake electors case
- Zoinks! We're Revealing 22 Secrets About Scooby-Doo
- Crews search for missing worker after Phoenix, Arizona warehouse partial roof collapse
- Prosecutors urge judge not to toss out Trump’s hush money conviction, pushing back on immunity claim
- US appeals court rejects Nasdaq’s diversity rules for company boards
- Katie Ledecky can do something only Michael Phelps has achieved at Olympics
- Truck driver faces manslaughter charges after 5 killed in I-95 crash, North Carolina officials say
- Olympic soccer gets off to violent and chaotic start as Morocco fans rush the field vs Argentina
- SFO's new sensory room helps neurodivergent travelers fight flying jitters
- Dylan Cease throws second no-hitter in San Diego Padres history, 3-0 win over Washington Nationals
Ranking
- Grammy nominee Teddy Swims on love, growth and embracing change
- Allergic reaction sends Filipino gymnast to ER less than week before she competes
- Wayne Brady Shares He Privately Welcomed a Son With His Ex-Girlfriend
- Captivating drone footage shows whale enjoying feast of fish off New York coast
- Travis Hunter, the 2
- Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns
- 10 to watch: USWNT star Naomi Girma represents best of America, on and off field
- Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns
Recommendation
Trump suggestion that Egypt, Jordan absorb Palestinians from Gaza draws rejections, confusion
Maine attorney general files complaint against couple for racist harassment of neighbors
House Republicans vote to rebuke Kamala Harris over administration’s handling of border policy
3 arrested in death of Alexa Stakely, Ohio mom killed trying to save son in carjacking
Romantasy reigns on spicy BookTok: Recommendations from the internet’s favorite genre
Biden signs bill strengthening oversight of crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons
Khloe Kardashian Is Ranked No. 7 in the World for Aging Slowly
Kit Harington Makes Surprise Return to Game of Thrones Universe