Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2024: Galaxy S24 series launched, Samsung bets big on Galaxy AI

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The Samsung Galaxy S24 series is here and feature a robust suite of AI enabled functions that can help you with live translations, image editing and more. Here's everything Samsung announced at the event.

Galaxy AI

Like every technology company in the past one year, Samsung has bet big on Artificial Intelligence experiences powered by Google's Gemini AI model.

The S24 series are the first smartphones that feature Google's Gemini Pro and Imagen on Vertex AI. The partnership enables unique experiences such as real-time translation.

Processed completely on device, the Galaxy phones will be able to translate voice calls in real-time using Live Translate. Interpreter can help you communicate with other people using real-time text and voice translation, and presents itself in a split screen view for easier understanding.

Chat Assist can help you translate text messages or help you generate short, catchy captions for use on social media platforms. It can also summarize incoming messages, and can suggest replies based on context.

Note Assist helps you organize your notes by tidying up your handwriting using image recognition, or creating summaries and bullet points from notes in the app. It also supports cover creation.

Transcript Assist will help summarize your voice recordings and even translate them. It can also take down notes for you during a college session or a meeting.

Circle to Search is a collaboration with Google that allows you to circle, tap, scribe, highlight or draw over anything on the Galaxy S24 screen to immediately see search results for that object. Google says it only uses the area you circled for the search.

AI powered photography and editing tools

The Galaxy S24 series uses a ProVisual engine that uses the on-board NPU to power advanced photo capturing abilities.

On the Galaxy S24 Ultra, the engine helps stabilize your video and using the new quad camera module on the S24 camera, allows you up to 10x optical zoom. The module consists of a primary 200-megapixel wide-angle camera, 12-megapixel ultra-wide lens, 10-megapixel telephoto sensor with 3x optical zoom and a 50-megapixel telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom.

The Galaxy S24 and the S24 Plus share the same triple camera module with a 50-megapixel primary wide camera, 12-megapixel ultra-wide lens, and a 10-megapixel telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom.

In conjunction with the ProVisual engine, these modules can offer advanced night time photography, and editing tools that enable users to erase, re-compose or balance colors in an image.

The rest of the specifications

The Galaxy S24 Ultra has a 6.8-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display with refresh rates up to 120Hz. It has 12GB of RAM and up to 1TB of storage. The Ultra comes with a 5000mAh battery.

The Galaxy S24 Plus has a 6.7-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display with refresh rates up to 120Hz. The Galaxy S24 has the same screen but in a smaller 6.2-inch size.

The S24 Plus will have 12GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage, while the Galaxy S24 will have 8GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage. All three phones have Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC.

The S24 Plus has a 4900 mAh battery, while the S24 has a 4000 mAh battery.

Pricing

The Indian pricing for the phones has not been announced at the time of writing, but in the US the series starts at $799 for the Galaxy S24. The S24 Plus starts at $999 and the S24 Ultra starts at $1299.

You can still pre-book the phones in India by visiting this page and paying Rs 1,999, which will give you a "Next Galaxy VIP Pass". This pass will unlock benefits worth Rs 5000 and will give you the best value for an old smartphone exchange. You can pre-book the phones here.