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TL;DR A screenshot detailing a handful of new AI features in One UI 8.5 has surfaced.
Most of the previously unseen features repackage existing functionality into new tools.
An existing feature called Social composer will apparently now generate product reviews.
We’ve been seeing a lot of Samsung’s upcoming One UI 8.5 lately. Based on a leaked build of the forthcoming update, we’re expecting changes like an iOS-flavored visual refresh — and of course, plenty of new AI-powered features.
Early this morning, Twitter user nirmalsri7 shared a screenshot detailing a handful of these new AI tools (via SammyGuru). Based on the descriptions in the screenshot, there are still questions about what exactly the features will do, but the overarching theme is that One UI 8.5 will be using AI to take action on your behalf in plenty of contexts — including generating online product reviews for purchases in some markets.
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A screenshot of Galaxy AI settings purportedly taken on a build of One UI 8.5 lists some previously unseen AI tools alongside ones we’ve seen before. In addition to existing capabilities like Call assist and Writing assist, it looks like One UI 8.5 will introduce a few new tools: Meeting assist, Touch assistant, Smart clipboard, and new functionality for an existing One UI feature called Social composer.
Meeting assist is meant to translate the content of “meeting conversations and presentation screens” in real time. Translating spoken conversations and still images is already possible with existing tools, so Meeting assist will presumably repackage those capabilities into a workflow tailor-made for business meetings.
Touch assistant’s description says the feature will “Improve your reading efficiency by processing the text shown on the screen.” That could mean any number of things, but given the feature’s name, it seems likely it’ll be activated by touching the text you’re reading.
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