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Samsung’s S25 and S25 Plus offer more of the same

This year’s new Galaxy S phones are all about AI. Again.

Plenty of them have been here since last year, like Google’s Circle to Search or generative photo editing tools that let you draw elements into photographs or remove distracting people and objects. Take AI Select, accessed from Samsung’s Edge Panel, which gives “suggested actions” like cropping and sharing screenshots, creating GIFs from videos, or adding events to your calendar. Meanwhile, the Now Bar is Samsung’s answer to Apple’s Dynamic Island: a lockscreen element that can show sports scores and Google Maps navigation instructions or tell you what song is playing.

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