Samsung recently announced the Galaxy S24 series which consists of three phones - the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24 Plus and the Galaxy S24 Ultra. The company's latest flagship lineup comes with notable hardware upgrades and several new AI-backed features powered by Galaxy AI, which is built on top of Google Gemini Nano. Here's a quick look at all the AI features which will be available on the Galaxy S24 series. Chat Assist Integrated into the Samsung Keyboard app, Chat Assist is an AI-powered feature that offers several functionalities. Using Chat Translation, Samsung claims users will be able to translate chats in any app. If you have written a text. the Writing Style feature can help you expand and rewrite text and even change the tonality of the text. Circle to Search While this is not a Samsung-exclusive feature, the Galaxy S24 series will be the first one to get the functionality. As the name suggests, Google's Circle to Search feature lets users circle anything on the screen to get more information about it. It can be triggered by long pressing the home button or the gesture bar. Generative Edit and Edit Suggestions Generative Edit is a new AI-powered editor that can be accessed from the Samsung Gallery app. The functionality lets you highlight or move objects in an image, resize them or remove them similar to Magic Eraser. The new feature works pretty similar to Magic Editor and requires an active internet connection to work. The Edit Suggestions feature can be triggered by tapping the info button and works by analyzing photos in the Samsung Gallery app and offers editing suggestions that be made to improve the image. Live Translate As the name suggests, the Live Translate feature uses AI to translate phone calls in real time. Handled by OneUI's default dialer app, users will be able to enable the feature by simply tapping the 'Call Assist' button that appears on the screen when they are on a call. Interpreter Similar to Google Translate, Samsung's Interpreter feature will help users translate languages. Before the conversation, users will have to pick two languages following which the screen will be split in two, with one part showing the translated text to you with the other half of the screen flipped to enable the other person to read. Samsung says that the feature supports multiple languages and that the processing happens on the device itself. Once enabled, Live Translate will automatically start translating anything you say to the caller's language and even translate their reply to your preferred language. Note Assist Samsung's Notes app also got some AI treatment. The 'Note Assist' feature can interact with anything you write in the app and format the text or generate a summary of what's written. The AI-powered feature can also help automatically align handwritten text. Transcript Assist Similar to the voice recorder app on Pixel devices, Samsung voice recorder's Transcript Assist feature can automatically transcribe a recording into text and even identity speakers. You can then translate the transcription to another language or generate a summary of the recording on the device itself. However, it cannot be used to transcribe audio in real-time. Samsung says all Galaxy AI features will be available for free on eligible devices till the end of 2025, after which users may have to pay according to features provided by third parties, and some of these features might come to the previous generation Galaxy S/Z series smartphones.
