Galaxy Unpacked highlights: Samsung announces AI-powered S24 series phones

At its Galaxy Unpacked event on January 17, Samsung announced the Galaxy S24 Ultra, Galaxy S24 Plus, and Galaxy S24 smartphones packed with AI features and more

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Galaxy Unpacked 2024 concludes

Samsung concludes the Galaxy S24 series launch event by teasing the upcoming Galaxy Ring with AI-powered features

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Samsung announces Galaxy ring for Galaxy Health

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Samsung Galaxy S24: Specifications

Display: 6.2-inch fullHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X, 1Hz-120Hz refresh rate, Vision booster

RAM: 8GB

Storage: 128GB, 256GB and 512GB

Rear Camera: 50MP (OIS) + 12MP ultra-wide-angle + 10MP telephoto 3x

Front Camera: 12MP

Battery: 4,000 mAh

Construction: Aluminum Armor frame

Protection: IP68

Weight: 167g

Thickness: 7.6mm

Colours: Onyx Black, Marble Gray, Cobalt Violet and Amber Yellow

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Samsung Galaxy S24 Plus: Specifications

Display: 6.7-inch QHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X, 1Hz-120Hz refresh rate, Vision booster

RAM: 12GB

Storage: 256GB and 512GB

Rear Camera: 50MP (OIS) + 12MP ultra-wide-angle + 10MP telephoto 3x

Front Camera: 12MP

Battery: 4,900 mAh

Construction: Aluminum Armor frame

Protection: IP68

Weight: 196g

Thickness: 7.7mm

Colours: Onyx Black, Marble Gray, Cobalt Violet and Amber Yellow

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Galaxy S24+ and Galaxy S24: What’s new

The other models of the series, featuring a 6.7-inch QHD+ display and a 6.2-inch FHD+ display respectively, a triple camera system with 3x optical zoom, and a One-mass design with recycled materials.

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Samsung Galaxy S24 series: Pricing

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Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: Specifications

Display: 6.8-inch QHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X, 1Hz-120Hz refresh rate, Vision booster
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy
RAM:12GB
Storage: 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB
Rear Camera:200MP (OIS) + 12MP ultra-wide-angle + 50MP telephoto 5x (OIS) + 10MP telephoto 3x (OIS)
Front Camera: 12MP
Battery:5,000 mAh
Construction: Titanium frame
Protection: Gorilla Glass Armor, IP68
Weight: 232g
Thickness: 8.6mm
Colours: Titanium Gray, Titanium Black, Titanium Violet and Titanium Yellow
 

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Galaxy S24 Ultra: What’s new

The most premium model of the series, featuring a titanium frame, a 6.8-inch QHD+ display, a Quad Tele System with 5x optical zoom and 100x enhanced digital zoom, and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform for Galaxy.
 

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Samsung Galaxy AI: Features

Circle to Search, powered by Google: Long press home button and circle on the object you want to make search about and generative overview about the object will appear on the screen. Supports follow up question
AI Live Translate: Available on phone and messages app. Real-time two-way call translation on native phone app. Creates a text translation that you can refer to either within the call or post it.
Chat Assist: Live translate supported on WhatsApp and Instagram, suggests smart replies.
Note Assist (Ultra exclusive): Auto align and spacing. Auto create headers and subsections to help you organize notes. Generate cover to help you identify content in notes app.
Transcript Assist: Transcribe, translate, and summarise
Browsing Assist: No more reading long articles. Helps summarise web articles and suggests highlights for you to focus on without distractions

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Generative editing

Fill the background while straightening images

AI Photo edit feature

Super HDR: Shows HDR effect in preview. Brighten up highlights, enhanced the HDR effect

AI Slow Motion: AI generated additional frames (interpolation) and smoothly slow motion videos by long pressing on the videos, even those that are not natively recorded in slow motion

Digital ND Filter for day and low-light shots

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Galaxy AI Creativity

The Galaxy S24 series features ProVisual Engine, a set of AI-powered tools that transform image capturing and editing abilities, such as Adaptive Pixel Sensor, Nightography, Edit Suggestion, Generative Edit and Super HDR
 

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Galaxy AI Search

Galaxy S24 series debuts Circle to Search with Google, a gesture-driven search feature that lets users circle, highlight, scribble on, or tap anything on the screen to see helpful, high-quality search results.

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AI Photomojis

Samsung will let you convert your stickers and photos into “Photomojis" using AI-tools based on Google Gemini AI language model

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Galaxy AI features

The Galaxy S24 series offers Live Translate, Interpreter, Chat Assist, Note Assist and Transcript Assist to enable barrier-free communication with real-time voice and text translations, tone suggestions, AI-generated summaries and more.

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Galaxy S24 Series

Samsung introduces its latest flagship smartphones with Galaxy AI, a comprehensive suite of AI-powered features that enhance communication, creativity, search and performance.

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Samsung extends its software support to seven years

Samsung extends its software support, committing to providing seven years of software updates and security updates with Galaxy S24-series

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Samsung kicks off Galaxy Unpacked 2024

TM Roh on stage to kick off Galaxy Unpacked 2024

 

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Samsung Galaxy S24: Expected specifications

Display: 6.2-inch fullHD+ Dynamic AMOLED, 120Hz

Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy

RAM: up to 8GB

Storage: up to 256GB

Camera: 50MP primary sensor, telephoto with 3x optical zoom, up to 8K video recording

Battery: 4,000mAh

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Samsung Galaxy S24 Plus: Expected specifications

Display: 6.7-inch QHD+ Dynamic AMOLED, 120Hz

Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy

RAM: up to 8GB

Storage: up to 256GB

Camera: 50MP primary sensor, telephoto with 3x optical zoom, up to 8K video recording

Battery: 4,900mAh

 

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Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: Expected specifications

Display: 6.8-inch flat QHD+ Dynamic AMOLED, 120Hz

Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy

RAM: up to 12GB

Storage: up to 512GB

Camera: 200MP primary sensor, telephoto with 10x digital zoom, up to 8K video recording

Battery: 5,000mAh

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Titanium body

Maintaining the design language of its predecessors, the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus are expected to feature squared-off edges with a flat display, while the Galaxy S24 Ultra will retain its contoured edge design but with a flat display this time.

 

Notably, recent reports suggest that the Galaxy S24 Ultra model will incorporate a titanium frame, contributing to a reduction in overall weight. The anticipated colour options for the Galaxy S24 Ultra include Titanium Gray, Titanium Violet, and Titanium Yellow, while the vanilla models are expected to retain the aluminium chassis seen in the previous generation models.

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Extended software support

In alignment with Google's strategy, Samsung is likely to extend its software support, committing to providing up to seven years of software updates. Currently supporting four years of major OS updates and five years of security updates, this extension aims to enhance the longevity of the Galaxy S24 series smartphones, aligning with industry standards.

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Circle to Search, powered by Google

A notable feature likely to debut with the Samsung Galaxy S24-series is the "Circle to Search", powered by Google. This feature would enable users to search images, videos, or text displayed on the smartphone by simply circling, highlighting, or tapping on the subject, eliminating the need to capture a screenshot.

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Samsung Galaxy AI

"Galaxy AI is coming," declares Samsung as it sets out to unveil the S24-series smartphones, which are set to be infused with advanced AI-powered functionalities. Reports indicate that the forthcoming Galaxy S24-series will introduce generative AI-based photo editing tools, empowering users to extend images beyond their original borders and manipulate subjects within the images.

 

The integration of GenAI capabilities is anticipated to facilitate users in responding to messages and summarising documents. Samsung has already confirmed the introduction of the AI Live Translate feature, offering real-time audio and text translations during phone calls. The event is expected to showcase various AI features, leveraging Samsung's Gauss model.

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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2024: Watch livestream