With the Galaxy S24, Samsung has achieved what seemed impossible: convincing Android users to continue buying “premium” mobile phones even months after their launch. Traditionally, Android sales are largely based on the low and mid ranges, but the S24 managed to sneak into the bestsellers throughout the year. And much of the responsibility for this success lies with Galaxy AI.
Samsung's AI platform was one of the first designed for smartphones to be made public, and the pioneer in offering functions such as “Circle to search” or AI image generation. Since the launch of the S24, absolutely all major mobile phones from all manufacturers have been equipped with at least these functions as standard.
A year later, Galaxy AI will once again pioneer another innovation that the rest of the manufacturers will adopt: AI executed locally on the mobile itself. As AssembleDebug discovered in
The big problem with AI-based functions is that they require large processing power and huge databases to operate. So when we use any of these functions on our mobile, it has no choice but send our data to a “cloud” of serverswhich is the one that actually does the work and sends the result to the mobile.
The Galaxy S25, on the other hand, will already be able to perform some of these functions natively, so it won't need to send data to the “cloud”, or at least not as much. Specifically, the S25 will be capable of performing functions of Generative photo editing AI on the device itself; Therefore, it refers to functions such as the magic editor that allows you to modify, delete and add elements to the image.
This is a big step forward for several reasons. To begin with, the process should be faster, since we will not have to wait for the mobile to send our image to the server and for it to send it back to us modified. Also will greatly improve privacysince no private data should leave the device; All current AI-based features include an associated privacy notice. This also means that in theory we should be able to edit our photos with AI without having an internet connection.
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For the moment, Samsung has not confirmed all of these advances; We only have a reference in the code to Samsung apps, which were recently updated to support the upcoming Galaxy S25. This code also confirms something that was previously leaked, namely that all Galaxy S25s will use Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite processor; and this is important because this is the reason for the change in Galaxy AI.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite is not only the most powerful processor currently available for Android; It is also one of the first systems with AI processing capabilities powerful enough to allow many, but not yet all, functions to be performed locally.