From CNET: Samsung's $650 Galaxy S24 FE offers newer AI features at a lower price than the standard $800 Galaxy S24. The phone was revealed Thursday during a launch event at the company's Samsung 837 store in New York. It will be available to order on Oct. 3.
The phone includes many of the features found on earlier Galaxy S24 phones, including Galaxy AI features such as Live Translation, Circle to Search, Generative Edit for removing unwanted objects from photos and Note Assist for formatting, translating and summarizing notes. It'll come with seven years of software updates along with security updates like the S24, further signaling how Samsung is bridging the gap between its more budget-friendly and high-end devices. Samsung's emphasis on Galaxy AI also underscores that it sees the technology as being a critical part of its mobile devices moving forward, coming after Apple touted Apple Intelligence as being a key feature in the iPhone 16.
The Galaxy S24 FE has a 6.7-inch AMOLED display and a 4,700-mAh battery. Its design felt similar to last year's Galaxy S23 FE during my brief hands-on with the phone. Placing the S23 FE -- which has a 6.4-inch display -- next to the new phone, you can see the S24 FE's body is slightly taller to accommodate the larger display. I'm also hopeful the S24 FE's larger 4,700mAh battery -- up from the S23 FE's 4,500mAh -- will help it last longer. I had found last year's phone drained faster than I had expected, often ending my testing days with 12% to 20% of battery life.
The S24 FE has a 50-megapixel main camera, an 8-megapixel telephoto lens with a 3x optical zoom and a 12-megapixel ultrawide lens, which on paper sounds similar to the Galaxy S24's camera setup and is nearly identical to the S23 FE.
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