Samsung said Wednesday that the Galaxy S24's AI features will come to last year's phones (including foldable) and tablets at the end of March. In January, Engadget's Sam Rutherford reported that the AI suite would be available soon on the Galaxy S23 series, Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5 and Tab S9. Today's announcement formalizes this list of devices while adding the more specific arrival window of late March 2024.
This group of 2023 devices will receive a software update next month with the S24 Series AI Features. These include communication-based AI tricks such as Chat Assist (adjusts message tone and translates messages), Live Translate (real-time voice and text translations), and Interpreter (split-screen translation for conversations). in person).
They will also benefit from productivity-based AI features Circle to search (search for anything on your screen by drawing a ring around it), Note Assist (formatting, summaries and translations of notes), Browsing Assist (news article summaries) and Transcript Assist (transcribe and summarize meeting recordings) .
Finally, the image-based AI features offered on these devices include Generative Editing (cropping shots, moving subjects or deleting and replacing them), Suggested Editing (recommended image adjustments ) and instant slow motion (generate additional frames to transform a standard video). in 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 you can expect more devices to join them later. “This is just the beginning for Galaxy AI, as we plan to bring the experience to more than 100 million Galaxy users by 2024 and continue to innovate to unlock the limitless possibilities of mobile AI “, wrote Samsung President TM Roh in a press release.
We were most impressed by the AI features of our Galaxy S24 Ultra review. “While leveraging AI might not be a very exciting development now that everyone and their grandma is trying to integrate it into everything, it does make the S24 Ultra a more powerful and well-rounded handset ” wrote Engadget's Sam Rutherford in January.
Although he noticed a few hiccups in the AI tools at launch, he found most of them to be a genuinely useful addition to the phone's high-end hardware. “Samsung finally has an answer to sophisticated features that were previously only available in the Pixel family,” he wrote. “Sure, S24's tools aren't as sophisticated as Google's offerings, but they get you 80-90% of the way there.”