Jan 23, 2025 12:25:00

Samsung's smartphone 'Galaxy S25 series' can use Google's AI functions and can perform 'tasks that use multiple apps'

Samsung's smartphone '

Galaxy S25 series ' was announced on January 23, 2025. In conjunction with this announcement, Google has announced several new AI features that will be available on the Galaxy S25 series.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Series Sets the Standard of AI Phone as a True AI Companion – Samsung Global Newsroom
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-galaxy-s25-series-sets-the-standard-of-ai-phone-as-a-true-ai-companion

New Gemini app features coming to Android devices
https://blog.google/products/gemini/new-gemini-app-updates-android/

Google announces Android updates for Samsung Galaxy S25 and more
https://blog.google/products/android/google-ai-samsung-galaxy-s25/

On the Galaxy S25 series, you can call up Google's AI 'Gemini' by pressing and holding the side button.

The Galaxy S25 series Gemini supports '

extension features ,' allowing you to respond to a single command using multiple apps. For example, if you say, 'Find an Italian restaurant that allows pets and has a terrace and send the candidates by text message,' the device will automatically execute a series of actions, such as 'Search for restaurants on Google Maps and find candidates,' and 'Summarize the candidates in a text and send them by a messaging app.'

It also supports

Gemini Live , which allows you to talk to Gemini in real time. At the same time as the announcement of the Galaxy S25 series, Gemini Live also added the ability to talk while showing images, files, and YouTube videos.

The 'feature to talk while showing images, files, and YouTube videos' is available not only on the Galaxy S25 series, but also on the Galaxy S24 series and Pixel 9 series, and more models will be supported in the coming weeks. Google DeepMind CEO and Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis has touted new features such as Gemini Live as the results of

Project Astra .

Project Astra is our vision for a universal AI assistant. Soon some of its capabilities will come to Android & Samsung Galaxy S25 devices via @GeminiApp ! Super excited to partner w/ @SamsungMobile & @Android to bring Astra features there first. More to come in the months ahead. https://t.co/XAP5FAiLlB

— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) January 22, 2025

In addition, the ' Encirclement Search ' feature, which allows you to circle an object in an image or camera footage to find out more information about it, has also been updated to automatically identify phone numbers, email addresses, and URLs on the screen.

Additionally, the Galaxy S25 series comes with a free six-month Google One AI Premium Plan , which gives you access to additional Gemini features.

Ready, press, Gemini! Long press the power button on your Samsung Galaxy device to launch your personal AI assistant. And, get 6 months of the Google One AI Premium Plan at no charge on the @SamsungMobile Galaxy S25 devices. pic.twitter.com/MmewD3XrWz

— Android (@Android) January 22, 2025

According to the overseas media Android Police, a Google representative confirmed that the Galaxy S25 series will be able to use 'local AI functions using Gemini Nano.' TechCrunch also reports that the Galaxy S25 series will support ' Content Credentials ,' which will store image editing history and allow users to distinguish AI-generated images.