Samsung Unpacked 2024: Galaxy S24 includes Google’s generative AI

At the Samsung Unpacked event on Wednesday, the mobile phone giant showed off the Samsung Galaxy S24 series’ generative AI-powered note-taking tool and real-time translation. Samsung’s newest smartphone series will support Google’s Gemini Nano and Gemini Pro generative AI and Imagen 2 image maker on Google’s Vertex AI via the cloud.

Google introduces Gemini Pro and other AI capabilities in Samsung Galaxy S24

As with other Google-powered generative AI features, Google’s Gemini Nano runs generative AI on the device.

Real-time language translation could make international business trips easier

Samsung demonstrated the feature of real-time translation between languages ​​over text or phone calls with Live Translate; the Live Translate feature can be used while traveling or talking to international colleagues during a business trip.

Samsung adds generative AI features for meetings and image editing

Gemini Pro on Vertex AI for Samsung offers generative AI features for business use, such as summarizing meeting notes and automatically categorizing voice recordings (Figure A,

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These services are one of the first implementations of Google’s Gemini Ultra Large Language Model. Meanwhile, Imagen 2 on Vertex AI provides photo editing capabilities for personal or business social media and marketing use.

See: Here’s everything you need to know about artificial intelligence. (TechRepublic)

In the Samsung Galaxy S24 series, Google has enabled the Circle to Search function, which lets you circle an image or word on the screen to see Google search results for that topic without leaving your current app.

Samsung is aware that there are concerns about the privacy of data exposed to generative AI, especially if it is proprietary business data. Samsung Galaxy S24 users can use Advanced Intelligence settings to turn off online processing of data for generative AI features.

Samsung Galaxy S24 series: Availability, pricing and security

The Galaxy S24 Ultra, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 will be available globally on Samsung.com, Samsung Experience Stores, and major mobile carriers and retailers on January 31. All three versions run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform for Galaxy.

The phones in the series are differentiated in the following ways:

• The Galaxy S24 starts at $799.99 and comes with a choice of 128GB or 256GB of storage.
• The Galaxy S24+ starts at $999.99 and is available in 256GB or 512GB storage options.
• The Galaxy S24 Ultra starts at $1,299.99 and comes in 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB of storage. Galaxy S24 Ultra has additional thermal controlTroll, with a larger vapor chamber than the Galaxy S23 Ultra.

Samsung guarantees seven generations of operating system upgrades and seven years of security updates for the Galaxy S24 series devices.

The series is protected by Samsung’s Knox security.

Samsung increases use of recycled materials

Samsung took the following environmental measures in the manufacture of the Galaxy S24 series, which were not applied to the Galaxy S23 series:

• The Galaxy S24 Ultra’s battery uses a minimum of 50% recycled cobalt.
• The Galaxy S24 Ultra’s side and volume keys use a minimum of 10% pre-consumer recycled TPU.
• The Galaxy S24 Ultra’s speakers use 100% recycled rare earth elements and a minimum of 40% recycled steel.
• The Galaxy S24 series uses recycled steel and thermoplastic polyurethane.
• Packaging for the Galaxy S24 line is made from 100% recycled paper.

Competitors of the Samsung Galaxy S24

The Samsung Galaxy S24 competes with Apple’s current-generation iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro. Google has incorporated AI image editing in its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, which compete to deliver contemporary smartphone features. However, Google’s phones won’t crack the top five in global smartphone sales in 2023, according to IDC.