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At long last, Samsung revealed the official launch date for the Galaxy A55 earlier today. It also teased some of the standout features the smartphone will offer, and it may also have let slip that its next premium mid-range phone will not come with any of the AI functionality that makes the Galaxy S24 stand out from every other phone on the market. The company hasn't actually said the A55 won't have the Galaxy S24's AI features, but the fact that there is no mention of AI in its Galaxy A55 teasers is a dead giveaway.…

Artificial intelligence is a major part of the user experience on the Galaxy S24. Samsung's latest flagship smartphone lineup is loaded with several AI features, some of which have been designed by the Korean giant and some by Google. In the latter camp falls the Circle to Search feature. Circle to Search lets you quickly find information about whatever it is you're seeing on the screen by long-pressing the home button and highlighting the item of interest. As the name of the feature suggests, you can draw a circle…

For every few great new features and changes in One UI 6.1, there's one that makes me wonder what Samsung was thinking. Don't get me wrong, I love the Galaxy S24+ and One UI 6.1 so far, but some aspects go against my idea of improvement. As I pointed out before, one such issue has to do with the Notification Categories feature, which One UI 6.1 hides behind a new and arguably useless menu that only serves to make this incredibly useful and streamlined tool unnecessarily obscure. Especially for new users who may not know…

Last week, Samsung started rolling out a big firmware update for the Galaxy S24 series. It not only improved the camera experience but also addressed the vividness, or lack thereof, of the Galaxy S24 series' displays. You probably know the backstory already. Samsung calibrated the Galaxy S24 screens differently, resulting in a somewhat washed-out vivid color profile on day-one. People complained, and last week, Samsung addressed the issue through a new firmware release. However, with this update, the company didn't just…

After an initial release in its homeland, South Korea, Samsung is now rolling out the first software update for the Galaxy S24 series in more markets. The much-awaited update is available in Australia, Europe, India, and the US. A global availability should be just around the corner. Samsung brings Galaxy S24’s first update to more markets Last week, the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra finally picked up their first software update. However, Samsung limited the rollout to South Korea. It has now expanded the…

Samsung is expanding the availability of the first software update for the Galaxy S24 series this week, following the update's debut in South Korea a few days back. The update is rolling out in European countries with firmware version S92xBXXU1AXB5 and a download size of 746.5MB. It should arrive in many more markets over the coming days. This update is an important one, as it addresses some of the issues customers had with the out-of-the-box experience. Samsung has fixed a major complaint about the new displays on the…

Kerry Wan/ZDNETThe trickling of Samsung's latest Galaxy AI features will begin as soon as late March, the company confirmed today. With the latest One UI 6.1 update, older Samsung devices including last year's Galaxy S23 series, Z Flip and Fold 5, Tab S9 series, and more will gain access to key Galaxy AI features, such as Circle to Search, Chat Assist, and Generative Edit.Also: Galaxy AI features, including Live Translation, are headed to Galaxy Buds"Our goal with Galaxy AI is not only to pioneer a new era of mobile…

Upgrading to a new flagship phone every year has never made financial sense, and it's especially true right now given how flagship phones no longer bring a lot of major hardware upgrades. Smartphone manufacturers are putting more of a focus on the software experience, and for the Galaxy S24 series, Samsung's entire marketing campaign is based on Galaxy AI, a suite of AI features that enhance your productivity and make tasks like photo editing more useful and fun. But as we said in our Galaxy S24 Ultra review, the AI…

As you may have heard a thousand times already, the displays on the Galaxy S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra are not as vibrant as Samsung fans have come to expect from Galaxy smartphones over the years. To be more precise, the vivid display mode on the S24 series doesn't do what it should do: make colors pop and increase the saturation of on-screen content. Instead, it behaves virtually the same as the natural mode, which, as the name suggests, is tuned to make content look more realistic. In fact, Samsung has put a huge…

Samsung Galaxy S24 series launched with several unique features, one of which was Instant Slow-Mo. The feature allows users to watch recorded videos in slow motion just by long pressing onto it, without any need to record it in slow motion or edit the effect manually. So far, the feature was exclusive to the newly launched Galaxy S24 series including the vanilla Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and the Galaxy S24 Ultra. But now, Samsung is expanding it to older phones as well.In the official South Korean community forum of…