Samsung and Google Unveil New Galaxy S25 AI Features

Samsung and Google Unveil New Galaxy S25 AI Features

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The future of mobile productivity is getting even smarter with the Galaxy S25 series. Samsung and Google took center stage at the Galaxy AI Future Lab held at the BGC Amphitheater, revealing the game-changing features of the Galaxy S25 series. This exclusive fireside chat featured Ben Ting-Martin, Google APAC Lead for Android, and Jun Guevara, Samsung PH Head of Product Marketing for Mobile Experience. Moderated by Gian Viterbo, Founder and Managing Director of Gadget Pilipinas, the conversation delved into how Galaxy AI and Gemini are redefining efficiency and making the Galaxy S25 series the ultimate AI companion.

Context-Aware Intelligence: Your New AI Companion

The Galaxy S25 series takes productivity to new heights with AI that adapts intuitively to users’ needs. Unlike other AI assistants that act solely on predefined commands, Galaxy AI learns from patterns, locations, and behavior to anticipate tasks and offer smarter, proactive, and more natural responses. It does this by integrating human-like agents that understand context.

Gemini Live on the Galaxy S25 acts as a real-time assistant, understanding natural speech and visual inputs. It enables seamless multi-step tasks across apps with a single voice or text command. For example, saying, “Find a café nearby and message my wife the location,” completes both actions instantly.

When asked how AI enhances efficiency for busy professionals, Guevara highlighted Now Brief, an AI-powered feature that streamlines daily planning by providing real-time insights on sleep, weather, schedules, and reminders to start the day productively. “It helps busy professionals because it helps with scheduling; you have less time planning and more time executing. The Now Brief is AI-based, and it actually gets better the more you use it. It recognizes your usage patterns, it recognizes your routines,” Guevara explained.

Ting-Martin emphasized the personalization achieved by Gemini and Galaxy AI working together: “This collaboration is going to make you more productive and efficient in what you do. It’s not just about using a phone, it’s about having a phone that is actually smart and can work for you,” he reiterated.

Redefining Smartphone Productivity

With Galaxy AI becoming more seamless, natural, and context-aware, the features on the Galaxy S25 series act with greater efficiency and functionality, making tasks easier for users.

The Live Translate feature remains popular with travelers. Ting-Martin shared, “It can translate things like signboards, menus, and messages in over 100 languages. This removes a lot of language barriers and travel anxieties, letting you connect more easily and efficiently wherever you are.”

Google’s upgraded Circle to Search further enhances efficiency with faster, contextual screen searches for actions like calling or visiting websites. It recognizes numbers, URLs, emails, and can now search music. The Galaxy S25 series also has enhanced in-app search that understands the context of users’ prompts.

Guevara also talked about AI Select, a function that understands what happens on your screen and provides suggestions on what you can do with it. “Say you have a video playing. If you use AI Select, it can give you the option to turn that video into a GIF. If you have a photo, it can give you an option to edit or change it into one of the images you want to make. If you have text, it can summarize it for you or help you edit it,” Guevara explained.

Top-Notch Security for a Top-Tier Phone

With the rise of AI-driven personalization, security remains a top priority for both Google and Samsung. Ting-Martin mentioned, “We understand it’s top of mind for many users. Both Samsung and Google use end-to-end encryption for communications, and we follow strict privacy policies. Users also have more granular control over their data privacy through easy-to-access settings.”

Guevara highlighted Samsung’s approach to ensuring user privacy: “We make sure that users have a choice of what they want to share. Sensitive information is processed on-device, and we don’t keep it for long if the output has already been achieved. The information and data you share are not used for improving large models.”

Pre-Order and Exclusive Offers

As Samsung and Google continue to push the boundaries of AI in mobile technology, the Galaxy S25 series represents a major step toward a future where smartphones become truly intelligent companions. With context-aware features, advanced productivity tools, and cutting-edge security, the Galaxy S25 is more than just a smartphone—it’s a smarter way to live and work.

Pre-order the Galaxy S25 series until February 13, 2025, to save up to PHP 48,000. Enjoy a free double-storage upgrade from 256GB to 512GB, worth PHP 9,000, a 30% discount on select Galaxy Watch or Buds, and 50% off a 1-year Samsung Care+ plan, worth up to PHP 1,999. Additionally, Samsung is offering discounts of up to PHP 12,000 if you trade in your older devices.