Samsung Galaxy S24

Gesture navigation became an option in Android a few years ago, but since the classic three-button layout had its advantages, Google kept it around. Samsung, though, offered three different forms of navigation Galaxy devices for a long time, with a custom version of gesture navigation. On the Galaxy S24 series, that custom version has been removed, but it lives on if you put the work in.

Samsung makes killer displays for its Galaxy phones, but for a while now they’ve been a bit behind on one lesser-known, but important metric. But, finally, on the Galaxy S24 series, Samsung has boosted the PWM refresh rate of the display.

The Galaxy S24 series boasts small changes over the previous generation, with a couple of material exceptions. However, one large change is Samsung’s softer approach to camera processing on the Galaxy S24, resulting in images that look much better this time around.

It’s only been a couple of weeks, but AI is absolutely the big buzzword of 2024, and Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series is betting big on the tech. And, somewhat shockingly, the Galaxy AI suite is really quite good, but the problem I’m facing so far is that the Samsung apps they’re tied to are not ones I want to use.

Samsung’s AI-heavy One UI 6.1 update debuted on the Galaxy S24 series, and it’ll bring some cool features to a few other devices.

With the launch of the Galaxy S24 series, Samsung announced a slew of new features that will eventually come to the rest of the company’s latest phones. One of those features was the Galaxy S24’s Super HDR, and with it, the ability for social apps to pull in Samsung-applied AI camera features.

The Galaxy S24 series has arrived and, with that, Samsung’s usual pre-order perks and bonuses. Trade-ins have become an ever-more-important way to save on a new phone, and if you’re still holding on to a Galaxy Note, the time may have arrived to make the switch, as Samsung’s Galaxy S24 offers are actually pretty compelling for those devices.

Apple took ages to adopt the always-on display on iPhone, but when it did the company adopted a new idea in showing your wallpaper in color. Now, Samsung is doing the same thing with the always-on display on the Galaxy S24 series.

With the Galaxy S24 series running One UI 6.1, a new AI labs feature has popped up that allows your Galaxy phone to change the look of your wallpaper depending on ambient time and weather.

Qi2 was announced over a year ago now as the next big thing in wireless charging, bringing the same array of magnets used for Apple’s wildly popular MagSafe to any other device as an industry standard. But we haven’t see it debut in any hardware yet, and Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 series isn’t changing that as all three devices lack support for Qi2.

The Galaxy S24 series is officially available for pre-order, but you have a few different options. This quick guide will bring you through a breakdown of each way you can pre-order the new Galaxy S24, S24+, or S24 Ultra and get the best deal.

After years of customer complaints about its Exynos chips, Samsung went all-in on Qualcomm Snapdragon with last year’s Galaxy S23 series globally. But, just a year later, Exynos is back in the Galaxy S24 series.

The Galaxy S24 and S24+ take on a slightly different design this year, with flat edges and a few tempting colors. Inside is a new gauntlet of AI features, and the overall price hasn’t changed, unlike the S24 Ultra. These phones may actually be a better purchase overall.

In case you hadn’t heard, AI is the big selling point Samsung is betting on for its new Galaxy S24 series. “Galaxy AI” is a suite of features powered by Samsung and Google, and they seem to be integrated quite well based on our hands-on time. Here’s a full list of Samsung’s new Galaxy AI features.

Long-term updates have been a struggle on Android phones for a while, but Google broke new ground last year with the Pixel 8 series getting an industry-leading 7 years of major updates – that beats even the iPhone. Now, Samsung is matching that with 7 years of updates on the Galaxy S24 series.

Google is following “Now on Tap,” “What’s on my screen?” in Assistant, and later “Search screen” with a new “Circle to Search” feature debuting on the Pixel 8 and Samsung Galaxy S24 series. 

Samsung is now announcing the Galaxy S24 series, starting with the familiar yet different S24 and ending with the S24 Ultra. The Galaxy S24 and S24+ bring a slightly refreshed design and offer some exciting AI features under the hood, all for the same price.

AI features are a big part of the Samsung Galaxy S24 series and Google’s Gemini models are directly powering many of the new capabilities.

AI is dominating the conversation going into 2024, and there’s potentially no better example of that than the Galaxy S24 series. Samsung’s new phones are apparently filled to the brim with AI features, and that’s the entire marketing campaign around them too. But, apparently, you might have to pay for them.