The S24 Ultra has a titanium frame and is listed by the Korean smartphone maker at $1,300, up from last year's $1,200. Samsung's flagship weighs the same as the S23 Ultra (232 grams), making it slightly heavier than the iPhone 15 Pro Max.

The other noticeable change is the display. The S24 Ultra comes with a 6.8-inch 1440p display, just like the S23 Ultra, but it’s no longer rounded like on the Note line, instead it’s flatter. This should help reduce the chance of the S Pen slipping off the edge of the screen.

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The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra has a titanium case, a large flat screen, and uses a Qualcomm chip tuned for AI tasks. Photo: TheVerge

Another hardware upgrade is Samsung's use of a 50 megapixel rear camera with 5x zoom (compared to the 10 megapixel 10x zoom on the S23 Ultra). Although 10x is not the original focal length, because the device uses lossless crop zoom, it still easily improves zoom image quality compared to its predecessor.

The camera setup is otherwise unchanged from last year, with a trio of rear lenses: a 200-megapixel f/1.7 main camera, a 10-megapixel 3x telephoto lens, and a 12-megapixel ultra-wide lens. On the front, there's a 12-megapixel selfie camera.

The S24 Ultra, S24 Plus, and S24 all feature local and cloud-based AI capabilities, based on Google's Gemini AI platform. However, Samsung's top-of-the-line smartphone will come with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, while outside North America, the S24 Ultra's two younger siblings will only be equipped with Exynos chips.

The S24 Ultra will start at $1,300 for 256GB and ship starting January 31. Customers can pre-order starting today.

AI Phone

The S24 Ultra comes with new AI-powered photo and video editing tools, highlighted across the entire UI with a Google Bard-like star icon.

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S24 Ultra is deeply integrated with AI features: search, translation, photography. Photo: TheVerge

With Photos, users can circle objects in a photo to isolate, resize, move objects around, or remove them from the frame entirely. You can also adjust the level of the horizon in the photo and let AI fill in the edges.

Notably, users can now turn any video into a 120fps slow-motion effect, regardless of the mode, frame rate, or device it was shot in. The feature uses AI to interpolate missing frames and produce impressive results.

Other features, also available on the S24+ and S24, include Google’s new “Circle to Search.” In any app, you can simply press and hold the navigation or home button, circle whatever you want to search for on the screen, and let Google do the rest.

Translation is also a focus of Samsung's investment. The S24 Ultra can act as an interpreter when users make calls, translating content in real time and supporting up to 13 different languages. Similar to Google's Pixel, the S24 series is also capable of translating audio recordings into other languages.

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