There is no need to be salty.
You bought the S23 with the promise of 5 years of security updates and 4 generations of OS updates. That's what you signed up and paid for.
Someone else buying a different product and getting something better should not be seen as a "fuck you" to you. I think it is a very bad mentality to get mad at others who buy later products getting a better thing than what you got. I see this with things like CPUs and GPUs as well and it never made any sense to me. You almost always get something better if you wait and buy the next generation.
It's not like your purchase got worse just because someone else got something better. It just comes across as someone being salty and whiney because someone else got something better for waiting.
Some of the AI features will come to the S23 too. It remains to be see which ones will come and which ones won't. My guess is that all the ones that use Gemini Pro will be available since that's done on Google's servers. When it comes to the on-device AI features I think it will a mixed bag. If I had to guess I'll say that the detection of different speakers will arrive on the S23 too, but the generative fill-in images and videos won't. They require a lot of processing and even if the s8gen2 is capable of doing it, it would be pretty slow and probably not a good experience.
When Qualcomm demoed Stable Diffusion on the Snapdragon 8 gen 2 it took them "less than 15 seconds" to generate a 512x512 image.
When they demoed it on the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 they did it in under 1 second.
Just because the s8gen2 was faster than the s8gen1 does not mean it is fast enough to do all the things the s8gen3 can do.
Again, you bought what you bought. Don't be mad at Samsung and others just because their latest product is better than the previous one, and you happen to own the model from last year.
Just to be clear, Samsung never said the S23 was incapable of AI. They expressively said the exact opposite because they said they would bring some features to the S23 too.
Yeah, how dare they improve their products year after year! They should just stop making phones better so that the ones who own the previous generation phones won't feel like they don't have the best anymore.
No, I was sick as shit and came in 2 hours late. Migraines suck enough already but mine always twist my guts up in knots and foul up my digestion, basically a lot of my autonomic functions go haywire. Body temp regulation, digestion, blood pressure, to an extent pulse rate. If I move too fast I get dizzy or light headed, my balance is really bad, I can't think very fast, etc. I had to wait for it to calm down enough and meds to work enough to be safe to drive. I still felt bad at lunch time so I relaxed for a couple minutes then went back at it since I came in late.
I'm going to do it tomorrow. There's no ign switched fuses in the cabin, anything ign switched is under hood. There's no clean place to get wiring through into the cabin, the single pass through is taped up really tight and in a bad location to access one end of it in the engine bay since it hangs low. Some rando YT vid claims there's a white wire at the BCM that's ign switched so I'm going to check that tomorrow to make sure and see what's powering it to make sure it's safe to use. Assuming it is then I'll route everything and splice in my wiring and be done forgetting. Already forgot when I got home.
I once started my car to go somewhere, locked the door with my spare key to go inside and go to the bathroom, got distracted, got side tracked, got distracted again, forgot I was going to go somewhere, and about 2 hours later remembered I was supposed to go somewhere to get something I'd need later, couldn't find my keys, looked all over for like another 40 minutes, got my spare out of my wallet and went out to go drive with the spare key to find my car locked and running, THEN remembered I had already started it. Thankfully I haven't been that bad in a long time, life is much less distracting now than it used to be.
I'm a few days away from building in the torrent, but I will say this:
There's nothing weird about the PSU placement in the torrent; in fact if anything it's the standard prior to to 2010 when they started placing them at the bottom for custom PC's. Many OEM pre builts still put them at the top for example.
That being said, you may find that you need to route the PCI-E cables for your GPU either in awkward or unaesthetic ways due to the length requirements needed. You can get a cable extension, or get custom cables (the route I'm taking).
Lancool 3 was also on my short list of cases due to the mechanical features and stellar performance. The Antec case honestly feels like a second-rate Torrent in terms of aesthetics and theoretical performance (180x38mm > 140x30mm)
Who's an idiot? I'm an idiot! I forgot to unplug my dash cam from the cig socket, the socket is live all the time direct to battery unlike my previous and other current car, so it ran all weekend and killed my battery so low it froze solid. I forgot to unplug it because I've been lazy and haven't installed the hardwire kit. I'm going to do that tomorrow on lunch, honest. Battery is currently in the bathroom on the counter in front of the heater with the 1.25a slow charger on it slowly coming back to life. I'm really considering sucking it up and ditching the flooded for AGM. Any compelling, besides cost, reasons not to?
It's that time again!
Samsung is holding its annual Unpacked event where it will present its new products. Samsung has slowly been moving the event forward every year and this is probably the first time they are holding it in January.
Last year they announced the Galaxy S23 lineup as well as some new laptops.
We already know that they will announce the S24 lineup because Samsung accidentally listed it on their website earlier today (and took it down), but we don't know if they will announce something else.
It seems like Samsung will put a lot of focus on AI this year. We will see what that actually means during the event, but so far it seems to be photo editing and live translation.
Quotes
Sources
https://www.samsung.com/unpacked/
This spoiler is for the stuff written during the keynote. Please ignore it and read the stuff below the spoiler for proper writing:
Hardware:
Here are some comparisons for those who want to see the specs:
Galaxy S22 vs S23 vs S24
Galaxy S22+ vs S23+ vs S24+
Galaxy S22 Ultra vs S23 Ultra vs S24 Ultra
Galaxy S24 vs S24+ vs S24 Ultra
Overall, I'd say the S24 is the smallest upgrade over the S23.
Then the S24+ is a more significant upgrade over the S23+.
The S24 Ultra also gets some big bumps, but it actually seems like the S24+ is the big "winner" this generation.
Some highlights and things worth noting:
It seems like all phones will keep the camera sensors as the year before, except the Ultra model which seems to have gotten a new, larger sensor in the periscope telephoto camera. The pixels are 1.6x times larger than the previous model.
There are some changes to the lenses of the phones. All phones have their telephoto lens (x3) slightly altered. They are going from a 70mm equivalent lens to a 67mm equivalent lens. The Ultra also has its x10 zoom lens (230mm equivalent) replaced with a x5 (111mm equivalent) zoom lens. This might seem like a downgrade, but according to Samsung and rumors, the larger sensor and more software tweaking will be able to provide similar if not better pictures even at 10x zoom levels, despite the lens providing less optical zoom. If that's true or not remains to be seen.
The Ultra model also has better optical image stabilization in the 5x telephoto camera, making things more stable.
The Ultra phone gets a new type of Corning glass called "Gorilla Armor" which is said to be stronger, more scratch-resistant, and less reflective than Gorilla Glass Victus 2. The S24 and S24+ still get the same Victus 2 glass found on the S23 lineup.
All phones now have LTPO displays, which used to be something exclusive to the Ultra model. This lets them dynamically change the refresh rate from 1Hz to 120Hz.
All phones can now boost up to 2600 nits of peak brightness. The S23 lineup had a peak brightness of 1750.
All phones now have a flat display. A lot of people seem to really like this change as it allows screen protectors to be easier to install. It also avoids the slight distortions at the rounded part of the screen.
All bezels are now uniform all around the phones. On the older phones some sides had slightly larger bezels, like the bottom bezel being maybe a millimeter larger. Doesn't matter to me but it's a nice touch.
The S24+ had its resolution upgraded from 1080x2340 to 1440x3088. The S24 and S24 ultra retain their old resolutions of 1080x2340 and 1440x3088 respectively.
In the US all models will get the new Snapdragon 8 gen 3 (for Galaxy) chip. In Europe and some other parts of the world the S24 and S24+ will get the Exynos 2400 and the Ultra will get the Snapdragon 8 gen 3. Not sure how I feel about this, but I will keep an open mind until benchmarks and power testing from people like Geekerwan is out. Maybe the Exynos 2400 is competitive with the S8g3?
The S24 Ultra gets Wi-Fi 7 support, but the other phones will "only" have Wi-FI 6E support.
The S24 Ultra also gets a titanium frame although judging by the weights it doesn't seem like it will be any lighter than the S23 Ultra.
The RAM has been bumped up on the S24+ and S24 Ultra on the 256GB storage models. They used to get 8GB of RAM and now they got 12GB of RAM, just like the higher storage tiers.
The S24 and S24+ have gotten a slight bump in battery capacity. 100mAh and 200mAh bumps respectively.
The rest of the designs are more or less the same as the previous year. Just slight differences here and there.
The Ultra (and presumably non-ultra as well) have a much upgraded thermal management system. Among the changes, they have increased the size of the vapor chamber by 90%.
The S24 lineup seems to be the first non-Pixel Android phone that supports having multiple eSIMs active at the same time. Not sure how much that will actually matter to people but it's a nice bonus.
Here are the starting prices:
Galaxy S24:
US - $799
Europe - €899
UK - £799
Galaxy S24+:
US - $999
Europe - €1149
UK - £999
Galaxy S24 Ultra:
US - $1299
Europe - €1449
UK - £1249
This seems to be slightly cheaper than the S23 lineup at launch.
Samsung also has a promo right now that if you order before January 30 you can get the higher storage model for the same price. So the 256GB model costs like the 128GB model, the 512GB model costs like the 256GB model, and so on.
Software:
First thing first, all of these new devices get a promised 7 years of security updates and 7 generations of OS upgrades. So if Samsung delivers on this promise the S24 that launches today with Android 14 will get upgraded to Android 21 in the year 2031.
I personally don't think this is a huge deal since so much in Android get updated outside of "OS updates", but it's still nice to have. I'd rather have 7 years of promised updates than 5 years of promised updates, even if I think people in general puts too much focus on it. Android is not like iOS. Updates aren't as important in general because we have other ways of updating stuff. iOS generally don't.
Samsung is also adding "Super HDR" to their camera and gallery app. This has been confirmed to be the "HDR Ultra" feature that Google has created. Personally I would have liked to just see JPEG XL get adopted instead, but it seems like Google really don't like that format for some reason and will do everything they can go not support it...
We can now also add widgets to the home screen (again).
A big focus of this event was "Galaxy AI". The amount of times Samsung brought up AI was quite insane.
Samsung has partnered with Google to integrate AI into several services. A lot of these services are based on Gemini Mini, a slimmed-down version of Google's Gemini model that can run locally on your device.
Some features will require connecting to the Internet (will use Gemini Pro), but Samsung has added an option to disable these features if you want to. If you choose to disable them, you will still have access to all the AI features that can run locally, like live translation. But more on that later. Anyway, I think it's a nice addition to be able to disable these potentially privacy-intrusive features for those who just want everything processed locally.
Here are some of the AI-powered features that you can use:
AI wallpaper - You can have your wallpaper be an AI-generated one. Seems to be powered by Imagen 2 (Google's answer to DALL-E 2).
Live translation - These features let you translate voice and text in real-time on-device. If you for example speak to a Japanese speaker and only know English, it will take your English words, translate them to Japanese, and send that to the one you're calling using a generated voice, and vice versa. It can also translate text. Some apps will have this feature built in like the Messages app, but if you want to use the text translation feature in other apps it will be available through the Samsung keyboard.
The Samsung keyboard (and presumably some apps like Messages) will also support stylizing and changing the tone of your text too. So for example, if you notice that you used a very casual tone while writing a message to your boss, you can have the phone stylize it so that it becomes more professional sounding.
The voice recorder can transcribe audio, and label who said what. It will be able to differentiate between multiple people and label who said what in the transcript. It can also summarize the recording into a list of bullet points. I am kind of tempted to use this during some presentations and see how well it works.
At launch, it will support these 13 languages at launch:
Chinese, English, French, German
Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean
Polish, Portuguese, Thai, Spanish, Vietnamese
The note-taking app gets a few different Ai-powered features.
It can summarize notes you have taken into a pullet-point list similar to the audio recorder app.
If you use the handwriting feature it will be able to straighten out your handwriting.
The camera software is also getting an AI-injection, to make images better. This seems to be mostly more of the same as Samsung already does.
What is new however is that Instagram and Snapchat have added in support for taking better advantage of the phones cameras. Things like night mode and HDR are now supported inside these apps. On most (all?) other Android phones you will get far better images from the native camera app than the camera modes inside these apps. That is not the case on these new Samsung phones (and some old ones as well).
The gallery app gets a bunch of AI features too that relies on generative image creation. What it can do is things like:
Suggest things to "fix" in an image, like removing reflections and shadows.
Move objects around, and it automatically fills in the gaps.
If you rotate an image it will automatically fill in the edges that would otherwise be empty.
If you use these images the gallery app will add a watermark in the corner and in the metadata, so that it is detected.
The gallery app can also turn normal speed video into slo-mo video by generating new in-between frames to fill out the video.
Google was also on stage talking about two new features that will presumably come to more Android-devices later, but seem to be launching on the S24 lineup first.
Circle to Search - If you have this feature enabled and press down on the home button, you will trigger a view where you can draw on the screen. If you circle something (or tap on a specific thing), let's say a hat inside a video, then an AI will identify the object and then search for it. It can also do things like highlight text and search for that. This will work with anything you see on the screen and won't be limited to a few select apps. See a nice handbag in a TikTok? It will work on that. See the Eifel tower in a locally stored video? You can tap on that and search for it. Have something written down in your Notes app? It will work on that. You get the point.
Android Auto will be able to summarize messages and conversations for you, and also suggest responses. So if someone sends you a a long message that basically boils down to "when will you arrive", it will just tell you something along the lines of "person X wonders when you will arrive, should I tell them you will arrive in 5 minutes?".
Some of these AI features will be coming to older Samsung devices too such as the S23 series as well. Which ones and how well they will will remain to be seen.
The same fine print also suggested that some of these features will cost money in the future. The slide stated that Galaxy AI is free to use until the next of 2025. What happens after that date will remain to be seen. But considering some features are using Google's Gemini Pro AI model chances are it will require a subscription to use that, and Samsung and Google have partnered to give Galaxy phone users access to it for free in a limited time.
Surprise teaser:
Samsung also teased their "Galaxy Ring", which seems to be a fitness-oriented ring. However, they didn't say anything about it other than show a tease that was a few seconds long, and say the name "Galaxy Ring". No price, no date, no feature set, nothing.
I'm a few days away from building in the torrent, but I will say this:
There's nothing weird about the PSU placement in the torrent; in fact if anything it's the standard prior to to 2010 when they started placing them at the bottom for custom PC's. Many OEM pre builts still put them at the top for example.
That being said, you may find that you need to route the PCI-E cables for your GPU either in awkward or unaesthetic ways due to the length requirements needed. You can get a cable extension, or get custom cables (the route I'm taking).
Lancool 3 was also on my short list of cases due to the mechanical features and stellar performance. The Antec case honestly feels like a second-rate Torrent in terms of aesthetics and theoretical performance (180x38mm > 140x30mm)
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