It has been officially confirmed that the AI functions that older phones eligible to upgrade to One UI 6.1 will receive will be very few.
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Yesterday it was officially confirmed that both the Samsung Galaxy S21 and S22, as well as the Z Fold 4, Z Fold 3, Z Flip 4 and Z Flip 3 were updating to One UI 6.1. With this update came many of the new functions introduced with Galaxy AI. Among them we found a wallpaper generated through user prompts and AI (very similar to the capabilities of DALL-E, which is already more than an image generator), AI assistance in chats and even in image editing .
Of all the devices eligible to upgrade to One UI 6.1 that we talked about yesterday, the Galaxy S21, Z Fold 3, and Z Flip 3 were expected to receive very few AI features. And it has already been confirmed that these devices They have come out very badly in the distributionas we read in SAMMobile.
A single Galaxy AI feature for older devices
According to the post, the only Galaxy AI feature that has made its way to versions of One UI 6.1 intended for older Galaxy devices has been Circle to Search. This function, which we will also see in the Pixel 8, allows us to search the Internet for information about any element on which we draw a circle on our phone screen.
To activate drawing on the screen you must long press the home button or navigation bar. Once we have activated the drawing on the screen, we can search for what we consider appropriate. Samsung, by the way, has placed a lot of emphasis on the fact that it will not be necessary to have a stylus like the S-Pen to take advantage of the function.
Why hasn’t Samsung provided more AI functions to these terminals? The answer is much simpler than it seems. On the one hand, both the Galaxy S21, as well as the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 series, have limitations in processing capacity and memory that prevent integrating more AI functions into their version of One UI. On the other hand, Samsung said that It would not include all these functions in hardware before 2022.
So, if you have one of these devices and are excitedly waiting for the new Galaxy AI features, we recommend that you temper your enthusiasm. The update to One UI of these terminals will be, for the most part, something cosmetic.
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