It’s January and that means Samsung just announced a lot of new Android phones the Galaxy S24 the S24 . We’ll start with some small spec changes with the regular S24 and the S24 Plus.
Galaxy S24 has a slightly bigger screen going up to 6.2 inches compared to 6.1 inches on the S23 last year.
The Galaxy S24 Plus also goes to 6.7 in compared to the 6.6 in screen you got on the S23 Plus in
2023 the S24 Plus also gets a nice resolution bump going to a Quad HD resolution as opposed to full HD last year Samsung’s also increasing the battery sizes for both phones the Galaxy S24 now has a 4,000 mamp battery while the Galaxy S24 Plus has a 4900 Mah hour battery that’s an increase of 100. Milah hours and 200 Milah hours respectively which means you should get better battery life than you did in last year’s phones no matter which phone you get you’re also getting some shared specs.
Galaxy S24 Series Specs
Across the entire S24 series all three phones get the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 gen 3 processor you get 2600 nits of peak screen brightness and all three S24 phones have 120 HZ refresh rates. and similar to the Google Pixel 8 series from October all three Galaxy S24 phones are getting seven years of security patches and Android OS upgrades one of the biggest design changes you’re going to see
Galaxy S24 Ultra
Galaxy S24 Ultra Render Design
This year is with the Galaxy S24 Ultra similar to what Apple did with the iPhone 15 Pro Series the
S24 Ultra now has a titanium frame now it feels good in person but since the S23 Ultra already
had aluminum you’re not going to feel as big of a weight difference like it was going from stainless steel on the 14 Pro to Titanium on the 15 Pro it feels good but don’t expect anything too crazy there now as far as camera specs go the Galaxy S24 Ultra is kind of interesting a lot of them are pretty similar you get the same 200 megapixel main Camera 12 megapixel ultrawide camera and the 10 megapix 3x optical zoom telephoto camera however the 10 megapixel 10x optical zoom telephoto camera from the S23 Ultra that’s been replaced by 50 map 5X optical zoom camera there’s an increase in resolution but that is half the optical zoom range but Samsung says you should see similar if not better telephoto results that you got last year that’s obviously something we’ll need to test for ourselves to see what it looks like but it’s something to keep an eye out for now we can talk specifications all day but the big draw to all three Galaxy S24 phones is.
Galaxy AI
Samsung’s Galaxy AI
Galaxy AI now this is Samsung’s branding for a load of AI features it’s throwing into the S24 series and you’re going to find that in the phone app photo editor and a lot more now I’m not going to run through every single one because we really don’t have time for that but these are a few of the highlights that really stood out to me the most one of my personal favorite features is called Circle to search and it works just like you’d expect when you’re using the Galaxy S24 you press and hold the home button and then you circle on your phone with your finger whatever you want to look up.
Now in some of the examples we’ve tried we circled famous landmarks in Italy and France
and circle to search gave us a full Google search result of exactly what we were looking at and the really cool part is that for certain things you Circle you’ll get recommended follow-up questions
about whatever you found you also get a lot of AI tools with how you edit photos one of the main things are automatic edit suggestions depending on the type of photo you took when you’re looking at it in the gallery app the Galaxy S24 will recommend things like removing Shadows Reflections and more and the cool part is the more you use these features the better those recommendations get to hopefully tailor those edits to the type of photos you like to take when we got to see these edits for ourselves they actually worked pretty well these recommended edits happen locally on device meaning you don’t need an internet connection they happen pretty quickly and the results honestly look really good.
The other AI assisted photo editing experience you’re going to find is called generative edit now this is basically the magic editor you get on the pixel 8 series where you can instantly remove objects move the subject of your photo.
And a lot more now this experience does require an internet connection as it’s using the cloud to help those edits happen but once again the results we saw looked really promising the other big experience where Galaxy AI comes into play is with translation features live translate is probably the coolest one and it’s essentially having live translation two ways on a live phone call in the demo I tried I pretended to call a Korean restaurant where the person on the other end of the call was speaking.
Korean while I was speaking English when you press the live translate button after entering a phone call the experience is pretty cool the person speaking in their language it comes across on the phone in your language translated in real time and the same way works for you vice versa
now there is a bit of a pause and a 4 beat you have to wait for the whole thing to work but if you’re not in a hurry and you speak clearly it’s pretty impressive once again just how well these
features work in a similar vein there’s also an interpreter app that helps you do two-way translation if you’re talking to someone in a different language in person The Interpreter mode
works kind of how you’d expect you say something press a button and the Galaxy S24 reads it out loud in the other person’s language they do the same for you and just like live translate for the phone calls the results worked quite well there were a couple of instances where some words got jumbled.
But again this was an early preview and something like this can only get better as time goes on now the live translate features for phone calls that is obviously going to require a cellular and a data connection but The Interpreter mode is happening all on device meaning you don’t need Wi-Fi cellular data or anything like that now let’s talk price the Samsung Galaxy S24 is
Pricing
Going to retail for $800 while the Galaxy S24 Plus is 1,000 if you remember the S23 and the S23 plus those prices are exactly the same as last year now with the Galaxy S24 Ultra that is going to now start for $1,300 which is a $100 price increase compared to the S23 Ultra this isn’t all that surprising considering Apple just did something similar last year with the iPhone 15 Pro Max but another $100 for a phone that was already very expensive it’s not going to be the thing you want to see here we expect pre-orders for the Galaxy S24 series to start very soon and the minute we get our hands on them you can expect reviews and a lot more Hands-On coverage until then I’ve been Joe Mario with Digital Trends and I’ll see you in the next one.
