instead of activating Samsung’s own Bixby assistant by default, you’ll get Google Gemini. This is probably a good thing. Bixby was never a very good virtual assistant — Samsung originally ...

They start with the side button that on previous Galaxy phones activated Samsung’s Bixby assistant, then on later models invoked Google Assistant. On the S25, that button brings up Google’s Gemini AI, ...

Samsung is invested enough in Gemini to give it Bixby's coveted default spot, and it could be the way the AI gets more popular on phones.

Bar resurrects some of the best parts of Google Now, but it feels far more instinctive on the Galaxy S25 series.

However, just because Google’s software is prominent doesn’t mean you can ignore all your Samsung apps. If you ask the AI assistant to make a calendar event for you based on a screencap ...

The AI assistant can search for information and send it to a friend or share it to your calendar all at once.

Google’s chatty Gemini Live conversational AI will now make sense of photos, files, and YouTube videos. The chatbot will also be able to perform tasks across multiple services with a single prompt.

Project Astra uses your phone camera or camera-equipped glasses to see the world around it and analyze what it sees.

In the coming months, Samsung will launch Project Astra capabilities, which is Google’s real-time, multimodal AI assistant. The new additions include screen sharing and live video streaming.

The S25 series ships with a new set of software features headlined by Gemini, Google’s AI assistant. It has replaced Samsung’s Bixby chatbot as the default option, but the latter service will remain ...

The Galaxy S25 phones lets you pick your default voice assistant. Gemini is now enabled by default instead of Bixby. Bixby is still around for the people who want it. Update, January 22, 2024 (03: ...