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Google and Samsung Worked Together For Galaxy S24’s AI features: Is It Worth For Pixel Devices?
Google, at the Unpacked event in San Jose, shared how Google AI is creating new possibilities on Android with its long-standing partner, Samsung. The latest Galaxy S24 flagship series is using Gemini to power the next generation of AI capabilities.
The Galaxy S24 series has arrived with a luggage of some exclusive AI features, plus some of the features that are new for the Galaxy family but are already available on Pixel phones, such as live transcription in the recording app. However, in Pixel phones, there are some limitations, but Samsung has overcome them.
In the end, Google and Samsung have worked together to enhance the experience of the fan community by introducing some exclusive features on the Galaxy S24 series. Interestingly, some of the features are literally exclusive and not even available on Google’s Pixel 8 series.
The new partnership between Samsung and Google in the tech town has resulted in the latest generative AI features such as Circle to search, point and search with Google Lens, Live Translate, Magic Compose, and Android Auto integration. The fact is somewhere that the Galaxy S24 series places reliance on Gemini AI.
Gemini is a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that has the power to understand and talk intelligently about almost any kind of prompt—pictures, text, speech, music, computer code, and whatnot. A multimodal model is the name given to this type of AI system.
The Galaxy S24 series integrates Google’s latest Gemini AI model, which has three variants, which include Gemini Pro, Gemini Ultra, and Gemini Nano, across a number of default apps available on smartphones. Particularly, the utilization of Gemini Pro enhances the interactions with Samsung applications on the Galaxy S24 series, which provides summarizations as well as translation features in applications such as Samsung Notes, Voice Recorder, and Keyboard. Noticeably, Imagen 2, available on the Galaxy S24 lineup, permits users to access generative editing features within the Samsung Gallery application.
A question is twerking the Pixel users’ minds: Is Google playing a fair game with Pixel smartphones?
Neither yes nor no. It appears that Google, by partnering with Korean giants to load AI smarts into Galaxy smartphones that are already leading the tech industry, is underestimating its own Pixel phones.
As a positive prospect, Google, by offering its Gemini AI and Imagen 2 features to Samsung for its Galaxy S24 series smartphones, is extending the reach of these exclusive features. In a way, Google plays a mind game, since by offering these features already to its Pixel devices, it could have given an amount of boasting rights to the company, and these features would not then have been available to a vast range of users worldwide. Whereas Samsung is also planning to roll out these features to its old Galaxy S23 series flagship smartphone device.
Moving on to the comparison, after launching the Galaxy S23 Ultra, Samsung got more than 2.5 lakh pre-orders in India, whereas 11.63 million units of its predecessor Galaxy S23 Ultra smartphone were sold in 2023. On the other side, Google sold a total of 10 million units of both the Pixel 8 series, which includes the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, in India.
It has also come to be known that Google is casting a wider net, unlocking new lucrative revenue streams through future partnerships while also fueling the continuous refinement of its AI technology, which is utterly advantageous to not just Pixe users but also the overall Android ecosystem.
The actual fact is that generative AI tools work properly and fluently when they get used by more users. It is expected that Samsung might also ask for charges to use the Galaxy AI features by 2026, just as OpenAI launched a paid version of the AI Chatbot, ChatGPT Plus.
Circle to Search, or you can call it in your so-cold language. Circle and Search both refer to a facility that lets you search anything directly from the screen by just circling text or image. Let’s count the smartphone devices that support Google Circle and Search right now.
The Circle to Search by Google feature gained its fandom after Samsung introduced it on the Galaxy S24 series as a part of Galaxy AI. Later, Google introduced over the last few weeks the Circle and Search feature along with the support of Google Lens, which lets you integrate Google search in a completely new way as compared to previous times.
Circle to Search is a Google AI tool that permits users to search for queries on their smartphones using gestures such as circling or tapping without even switching between the apps. The major fact about this novelty is that it prevents wasting time switching between two apps just to search for something. Google and Samsung have already made this convenient novelty available on their smartphones. Check out the list mentioned below:
Google Pixel Device list that supports Circle and Search
- Pixel 6a
- Pixel 6
- Pixel 6 Pro
- Pixel 7a
- Pixel 7
- Pixel 7 Pro
- Pixel 8a
- Pixel 8
- Pixel 8 Pro
- Pixel Fold
Samsung Galaxy Device List that Supports Cirlce to Search
Galaxy S series
- Galaxy S24
- Galaxy S24+
- Galaxy S24 Ultra
- Galaxy S23
- Galaxy S23+
- Galaxy S23 Ultra
- Galaxy S23 FE
- Galaxy S22
- Galaxy S22+
- Galaxy S22 Ultra
- Galaxy S21
- Galaxy S21+
- Galaxy S21 Ultra
Galaxy Z Series (foldable)
- Galaxy Z Fold 5
- Galaxy Z Flip 5
- Galaxy Z Fold 4
- Galaxy Z Flip 4
- Galaxy Z Fold 3
- Galaxy Z Flip 3
Galaxy Tab Seires
- Galaxy Tab S9
- Galaxy Tab S9+
- Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra
Officially, this feature is only available for Android devices, but the Circle to Search feature is available on Apple iPhones via the Lens shortcut.
Samsung is busily setting up to expand the Galaxy foldable series by debuting a sixth-generation foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold 6, which is expected to arrive with a wider outer display with sharper corners.
Fans are awaiting the forthcoming Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 foldable phones, and leaks and rumors are increasing their curiosity among them. Now, recent leaks have revealed that this time Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 6’s wider outer display could ditch rounded corners.
Usually, the Galaxy Z Fold series follows the same basic design language of a super narrow and tall outer display that unfolds into a large, almost square inner display. The size ratio has changed slightly over time, but the fact is that it’s thinner as compared to the rest of the foldables on the market.
Finally, it appears that Samsung could come up with a new design idea for the forthcoming Galaxy Z Fold 6.
A reliable tipster on X is reporting that the external screen of the Galaxy Z Fold 6 is 60.2mm, whereas its predecessor series, the Galaxy Z Fold 5,’s external display is 57.4mm. If this report comes, then you will get a wider external screen, which will surely enhance the experience, but not too wide.
The corners of the display also seem to be markedly sharper. This time, they are not rounded, as was the design in previous generations. Samsung is expected to debut the sixth-generation foldables, the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6, and maybe the Galaxy Z Fold 6 FE, at the Galaxy Unpacked event, which is supposed to be held on July 10th in Paris.
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The Samsung Galaxy S25 series is next in line to expand the flagship S series, is supposed to be scheduled for early 2025, and is expected to be powered by the in-house Exynos in the Galaxy S25 Ultra model as well.
Samsung usually announces its latest S series smartphone early in the first quarter of the year; for instance, the Galaxy S24 debuted in January this year and the Galaxy S23 debuted in February 2023. According to these schedules, the Galaxy S25 is expected to debut sometime between January and February.
Now the reports are unveiling that this time Samsung could ditch the Snapdragon chipset for its in-house Exynos 2500 to power the Galaxy S25 Ultra model. This is being reported by a tipster on X by sharing a post. He mentioned that internally at Samsung, it’s determined that the Exynos 2500 does not hang back behind the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 in all prospects, such as quality.
Meanwhile, it’s not clear yet whether this is because the Nuvia cores of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 are not good, making the Exynos 2500 relatively better, or if the Exynos 2500 itself is better.
From the two-generation Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S24, Samsung relies on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset for the Ultra variant, but now it appears that Samsung could use the Exynos 2500 chipset for the forthcoming Galaxy S25 Ultra smartphone. However, Samsung has not officially unveiled anything regarding this report yet.