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Rumors that Samsung will release the upcoming Galaxy S24 a little earlier than normal are piling up.
A new report from the Korean publication The Elect (via SamMobile) claims that Samsung’s next flagship will be announced on January 17, 2024, with the range of devices available for pre-order the following day. The Galaxy unpacked event will also be held in San Jose, California.
The report states that the thought process behind an earlier launch date is to improve sales in the first half of next year. As expected, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S24, S24 Plus and Galaxy S24 Ultra at the launch event.
This isn’t the first news that suggests it will be released in January. Last month, sources spoke to SamMobile claimed that the new device will be unveiled in “early to mid-January,” which was backed up by tipster Ice Universe, who said the Galaxy S24 series had entered mass production.
The last flagship Galaxy S phone to land this early was the S21, which was announced on the 14th and released on the 29th of January. The Elect claims that buyers could launch their S24 as early as January 26, which would be one of the first releases in Samsung’s recent history. The S22 series landed in February last year, while the Galaxy S20 was announced in February and was available for purchase on March 6. The Galaxy S10 had a similar release schedule, launching on March 8, 2019.
We’ll know if that date and location are accurate in the coming weeks, but given the number of recent leaks, it seems likely that Samsung is targeting an earlier version. The company is also trying to add new AI skills to the Galaxy S24 series.
A new feature called “Live Translate Call”, which appears to be destined for the Galaxy S24, will automatically translate calls, in real-time, directly through the native phone app. Samsung has also developed its own AI production model, called Gauss, which can process and generate images, summarize documents and act as a coding assistant.
How this all translates into user-friendly functionality remains to be seen. However, Samsung seems to be thinking about exactly how to build advanced AI tools into everyday apps, with Live Translate Call being a solid example of bridging that gap. If the company has more of these up its sleeve, it will solve a long-standing feature problem with its phones and challenge Google’s AI-powered Pixel 8.
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