The idea appears to be that Bixby will be able to complete most tasks on a Galaxy S25 with natural language requests. “Anything that can be done by touch can be done [with your voice] by Bixby,” Lee Dinham, mobile experience product specialist at Samsung told me.

Samsung Galaxy S24 owners frustrated by the repeated delays to the One UI 7 release potentially have some good news. According to the leaker Tarun Vats, the Samsung Galaxy S25’s best new AI feature is likely to be added to last year’s handset as part of the stable One UI 7 release when it finally emerges.

Samsung offers an AI Drawing Assist feature that's available virtually everywhere in One UI 7 on the Galaxy S25 — here's how to use it.

All this to say the Galaxy S25 ($800), Galaxy S25+ ($1,000), and Galaxy S25 Ultra ($1,300) are powerful, reliable, and well-equipped smartphones. They're excellent upgrades if you're coming from a three or four-year-old device. They're just not otherwise interesting or exciting.

Last month, Samsung unpacked its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S25 series. The company sent me two: the midrange S25+ and the top-tier S25 Ultra, while AT&T loaned me an Ultra on their network. (The Samsung models are on T-Mobile.)

Samsung’s Galaxy S-series is in its software era. Maybe the whole smartphone industry is, too, save for a few phones with hinges (Samsung’s included). But overall, we have exited the hardware-driven innovation cycle and are firmly in the midst of a software-based one.

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is the current champion in Samsung's lineup, but it's a pricey option. We're looking at some more affordable alternatives.

Now, the February 2025 update is reaching the Galaxy A73, Galaxy S24 FE, and the Galaxy S21 series. The Galaxy A73 was the last member in the now-defunct A7x lineup. These devices offered a few extras compared to their Galaxy A5x counterpart.

There’s some good news on the horizon for the Galaxy S24 series owners. Despite recent disappointment over older Galaxy phones missing out on some AI features in One UI 7 due to hardware limits, it seems owners of the Galaxy S24,