OPINION : This week Samsung divulge the Galaxy S24 kitchen range in San Jose , and while the hardware is for the most part familiar , Galaxy AIisn’t .
In fact , it has a lot of electric potential , whether it ’s in editing photos , summarize long encounter recordings or translating calls and voices in real - prison term without an internet connection . The latter – the real - prison term translation tech – really stomach out to me .
If it works as well in real - world shape as it did in the demo TV at the launch , the S24 cooking stove – and theGalaxy S24 Ultrain special – could become my new go - to locomote companion .
As you might imagine , I assist quite a few smartphone launches . While some are , rather hands down , in the UK , plenitude are n’t , with producer often opting for a bougie European launch for their latest technical school .
It ’s an exciting way for me to see a lot of European cities and take in all the wonderful civilisation that come with it , but the job is that many folks ( understandly ) do n’t talk English natively , and I do n’t speak French , German , Italian or any European language . At least , I do n’t think my C grade in GCSE Gallic counts .
Regardless , that means I ’m often left face ill at ease conversation in fall in English in eating house , coffee shop and more , trying to work out what I ’m strain to say – a situation I ’m sure many tourists have found themselves in . I ’ve used Google Translate in the past but unless I ’ve been using aGoogle Pixel , I ’ve always needed an cyberspace connexion – and that complicate things slightly .
However , the Galaxy S24 Ultra ’s power to translate and transcribe 39 languages in real sentence without an active internet connexion could be a game - changer for me . It should admit for a much more natural conversation with the Samsung Translate app offering a split aspect for each person in their native clapper .
That ’s not just limited to the Translate app either ; with material - time translation available in the Phone app I can now make reservations at nice local restaurants or ledger slate to a local show without clamber to make myself understood . That sentiment alone tremendously reduces the anxiousness I normally feel break down to a non - English speaking region .
It ’s not just the translation tech that could incite me to pick up the Galaxy S24 Ultra on my next stumble either ; it ’s , of course , the tv camera carrying into action .
I ’ve only been using the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra for a few hours so far , but I ’ve been thoroughly impressed by the quality of the snaps I ’ve engage of San Jose , not just from the chief 200MP cracker but all four rearward genus Lens . That include both solar day and dark shooting , with the unexampled 50MP 5x periscope electron lens perform particularly well in the latter .
It supply a versatility you do n’t often find on a smartphone – without the use of digital zoom that tends to introduce digital artefacts , anyway – and negates the need to use a digital tv camera . In fact , I ’ve not felt the need to seize my Sony Alpha A6400 out of my haversack at any peak on the trip so far .
Combine that with what look to be pretty substantial battery liveliness ( in my other testing , at least ) , a gorgeously bright 6.8 - inch AMOLED filmdom and all the other fun Galaxy AI technical school and , like I say , we might have a young go - to travel fellow traveller on our hands .
