The Samsung Galaxy S24 series launched last week with several AI-powered features, and we now know that a select group of existing Samsung devices, including the Galaxy S23, Galaxy Z Fold 5, and Galaxy Z Flip 5, will benefit from Galaxy AI. updates in the coming months. But what about the Samsung Galaxy S22 line?
The Samsung Galaxy S22, Samsung Galaxy S22 Plus, and Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra are all less than two years old, but according to Samsung customer experience director Patrick Chomet, none of the company's 2022 devices are expected to benefit. of its cutting-edge Galaxy. AI features, at least not in the short term.
Speaking to TechRadar after Galaxy Unpacked 2024, Chomet told us: “First of all, get [these features] There was a lot of work in the Galaxy S24 series. I'm tired. And in fact, TM Roh [President of Samsung’s mobile division] I wanted to announce [at Unpacked] that we can support Galaxy S23 devices with Galaxy AI, which we will do [now be doing] within the first half of the year.
“We want to ensure that, over time, our AI experiences can be supported by [mobile] performance, which leads to CPU and GPU capacity,” Chomet continued. “For now, we are learning; Let's go step by step. We know that Galaxy AI works well on the Galaxy S24 series and we know that it will work well on [the Galaxy S23 series]. But we don't know what the intensity of AI usage will be for the average customer, and [therefore how that] The intensity will affect device resources and cloud resources.
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“First of all, we want to guarantee the quality and performance of what we implement. Then we will learn how people use [these features] and fine-tune the performance. Number two, we will deploy [Galaxy AI] on a second set of devices, specifically, S23, S23 FE, Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5 and Tab S9, to see how it works.”
When asked about chipset uniformity between the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE and Samsung Galaxy S22 (both phones use Samsung's Exynos 2200 chipset), Chomet acknowledged the fact but added: “For now, we are limiting Galaxy AI to devices from Last generation”.
In all likelihood, Samsung's new Galaxy AI features will be added to the aforementioned 2023 phones (S23, S23 FE, Z Fold 5, etc.) via the One UI 6.1 update. But it looks like phones in the Galaxy S22 line (and earlier) won't get the same treatment, even though they also qualify for a One UI 6.1 update.
Chomet was careful to use language like “for now” and “step by step” when discussing future support for Galaxy AI, but given that Samsung sees its new features as part of the “Galaxy flagship experience,” we think it's unlikely that The Galaxy S22 will receive more attention later, especially when even more Samsung products will be announced in 2024.
