Samsung may start charging for certain Galaxy AI features in 2025

30 September 2024
This reiterates Samsung's previous plans to make some of its AI features paid.

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  • 6 hours ago

JoshB, 8 hours agoI don't give a crap about AI, but I care that I can us... moreThe phone IS getting 4 years of updates, what are you talking about?
Bring this up if they fail to provide the updates.

    What are the AI features in the first place ? Like circle for search is AI feature ? I didnt know that and it dont exactly make sense it to be a AI feature. It should be like copy paste text as for the computer it be anyways 101001 being in text or picture form.

    Never mind that the AI collects your info and makes money for the brands as info farming.
    We basically need AI-block like ad-block and not pay for the AI features that we dont even know what these are. All we see is AI this and that but i hardly ever see what are the specific features AI give to users on phones

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      • Anonymous
      • rJV
      • 7 hours ago

      Why to pay in addition for AI features when customers have already paid higher price while purchasing the phone. Already Samsung phones are priced on higher end.

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        • Anonymous
        • GRQ
        • 7 hours ago

        Charging for AI should be made illegal.
        It will exacerbate the gap between the haves and have nots even more.
        I hope the EU takes this up

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          • Anonymous
          • 05b
          • 7 hours ago

          Shamrock Sean, 7 hours agoApple will be charging for it as well The important differentiator here is quite, uhm, important. You can't run Apple's "intelligence" on your phone hardware even if you have a brand new iPhone 15 you bought a couple months ago. Because Apple did what Apple always do, set a long-play grift up by deliberately selling "flagship" devices with budget phone memory capacity.

          I've been reading a few writeups on various tech sites, to see how yech "journalists" reacts to or responds to Apple's claims about "compromised experiences" on non-pro iPhone 15 models, and older iPhones. Remember, Apple has bragged about industry leading neural engines and graphics processing power for almost a decade now. Not surprisingly, tech "journalists" all seem to just swallow the lies without consideration. Some are even doubling down on degrading consumers for being silly to question Apple Corporation.

          No wonder Apple didn't dare to launch the "snake oil" in Europe, as Margrethe Vestager would tear Apple a new number two, the size of tens of billions. Too bad we don't seem to have a single honest tech writer left on the internet, though.

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            • Anonymous
            • Fek
            • 7 hours ago

            Nothing new, Google is going to charge for the useful Gemini functionality, Microsoft does same with Copilot+, OpenAI does that if you want everything and Apple will prettt sure also ask money for some stuff in the end.

            Samsung will probably charge for the AI that uses the cloud, not the on device stuff and same applies for most companies I mentioned.

            Because on device AI is precisely that, but the Cloud one is not realistic to stay free, even if the user is tge product, the power those computers need is absurdly high.

            I could argue AI is not useful enough to provide to the whole planet considering how much power it needs.

            But that aside, nothing new, was to be expected.

            I don't use or need AI so I don't mind this, but people should understand why companies are going to ask money for it.

            "But chinese brands do not!", they use the free AI google provides or have some fake AI available, that's pretty much the reason why it is free.

              Thats start the end of samsung

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                • thc
                • 7 hours ago

                Companies heavily market AI in their products, only to annoy the customers into not using them.
                Just like google ads.

                Also, companies heavily put their money into this sunk-cost-fallacy project (like it's some sort of FOMO for corpo) only to not hallucinate and not function as intended.
                An eerie similarity with Sony's Concord.
                Though AI would have cost more than $400 M development money.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • q3R
                  • 7 hours ago

                  I do use AI, but not on my phone. I certainly wouldn't pay for Galaxy AI as I actually want to disable it at this time.

                    Anonymous, 7 hours agoYeah, this is just a repeat of really old news. Not sure wh... moreApple will be charging for it as well

                      IpsDisplay, 7 hours agoCharge them Samsung, Samsung fan's love paying for not... moreErm hello?? Uses same design for flagships?? Apple has used same design for their flagships for years now and their cheaper options are the same. Dumb comment

                        Charging for much of what is gimmicky features, no thanks

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                          • Anonymous
                          • YUU
                          • 7 hours ago

                          Lol 🤣 AI crap in 2024 to 2025 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

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                            • Vale
                            • pMh
                            • 7 hours ago

                            The might as well remove all the AI features from the OS and no one will even notice. Only circle to search is useful

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 05b
                              • 7 hours ago

                              Modeey, 8 hours agoThis was the news from a year ago but nobody confirmed it u... moreYeah, this is just a repeat of really old news. Not sure what the point is as we already knew this. Maybe because a new player in the mobile AI business is struggling a lot more than they feared they would?

                              You know what this means? Dirt cheap iPhones 16 phones for Black Friday! \o/

                              Just a clarification of what's going it be a subscription service on Samsung phones: Anything that'll use cloud-based processing. Which incidentally isn't a lot on most Samsung phones, as pretty much everything can be forced to run on the phone.

                              Cloud-based AI is indeed very likely a bubble that could be so bad it'll cause recession when it fails. All tech companies has spent billions on data centres for this. It's crypto all over again, times ten.

                                Charge them Samsung, Samsung fan's love paying for nothing

                                Samsung doesn't use si/c batteries, reuses the same design for flagships in their entry level A0 series, resells the same z fold over and over

                                And the fans go 🤩😍 and spend

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                                  • Nikojas
                                  • GXs
                                  • 8 hours ago

                                  I'd rather pay for an extra year if security updates if anything. Definitely not AI gimmicks.

                                    It's NOT a feature of the device that you've already paid for, if you have to pay for it separately.

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                                      • wdx
                                      • 8 hours ago

                                      don't give a damn coz the only AI feature that I used is circle to search. the others after trying out never !!! I didn't even bother to try the lastest 6.1.1 features on both my phone & tablet

                                        This was the news from a year ago but nobody confirmed it until now

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