Samsung says Galaxy S24 AI features are "free until the end of 2025."
  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    10 months ago

    No chance I am trusting old privacy-pirate Samy with AI features to spy on me with their proprietary junk. Just give me an open source bootloader, documented hardware, enough RAM for a 7B and get lost.

  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    10 months ago

    I remeber the days when samsung made great hardware (they still do) and didnt fill it with bloat i couldnt replace.

    On the pixels now with that grapheneos and now i finally own my dopamine rectangle.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      10 months ago

      Samsungs have always contained lots of bloat relative to other OEMs. Don’t you remember how god-awful Touchwiz was?

      Shit, the S4 had only 8GB space usable on a 16GB phone.

        • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          You could, and this was before banks and such blocked your device if it was rooted. Still wasn’t accessible to most, and if you had a carrier variant you were probably out of luck.

      • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        ive had 2 old touchwhiz phones, i often replace the home screen of my phone and on one of them, event the notification shade. On the old s5, featues didnt mesh well and on both the notification shade was an awful unchangable theme. I once made a touchwhiz phone un-factory-resettable

    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Why Pixel do you have? I’m considering going that route too. How do you like graphene? Any annoying pain points?

      • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        Im on the pixel 7 purly cos of size. Graphene has been great turning mic and camera on and off can get a little tediouse but u dont have to use that feature if u dont wanna bother. Accessing the same file from different apps can be a little anoying sometimes due to sandboxing but nothing too seriouse. Took me a while to set things up how i wanted custom launcher, keyboard, fdroid etc but im very happy now no issues at all, ive heard people saying some apps like bank apps etc dont work i have never encountered this issue google servuces conpat works perfecrly. Well except for android auto but a recent update suposidly fixed that i havnt tested yet. Its development seems very active u can get a rundown of updates as they come out here !grapheneos@lemmy.ml . Im never going back to a proprietery os without the security features graphene offers ever. U might wanna check out the alternatives tho ive heard good things about LineageOS as well. Only thing u might wanna watch out for with graphene is the dev/s have mad beef with practicaly everyone.

  • Dehydrated@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    10 months ago

    Samsung is getting more and more ridiculous with every generation of their shitty phones

  • wagoner@infosec.pubEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    Which means you can opt out of the AI features. Seems like a positive, so long as the device isn’t otherwise downgraded.

  • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    82·
    10 months ago

    On top of that their expensive phones are full of bloat.

    I don’t know how anyone cat this price point considered anything other than an iPhone for Pixel.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Another view is that Galaxy AI is the usual bundle of baked-in Samsung features skinned on top of Android, but with generative AI being the hot new thing, Samsung went with AI-centric branding.

    Whatever value you want to place on Samsung’s AI features, you might soon have to place an actual monetary value on them: Despite devices like the Galaxy S24 Ultra costing $1,300, Samsung might start charging for some of these AI phone features.

    This is the company that makes Bixby and the notoriously poorly coded Tizen, though, so it’s hard to imagine Galaxy AI features being worth paying for.

    The Galaxy AI features made by Samsung include “Interpreter,” which is a copy of Google Translate’s conversation mode, and Voice Recorder, a voice transcription app that is just a copy of Google Recorder (and apparently not as good).

    Like most Samsung Android features, this feels more like throwing a pile of stuff at the wall and hoping something sticks rather than a collection of killer apps.

    The first step to charging for something like this is throwing the idea out there, so Samsung is probably listening to how people will react between now and the end of 2025.

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