{"id":53632,"date":"2025-07-10T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53632\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:23:16","slug":"samsungs-new-foldables-give-the-keys-to-google-ai-and-say-here-you-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53632\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s New Foldables Give the Keys to Google AI and Say, ‘Here, You Drive.’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung\u2019s newest generation of Fold and Flip folding phones is here, and this year, it has quite a bit to parade around. The Galaxy Fold 7<\/a>, for example, is hella thin and almost as slim as a Galaxy S25 Ultra<\/a> when it\u2019s folded up, while the Galaxy Z Flip 7<\/a> has a bigger front-facing screen that spans 4.1 inches. However much the foldables have going on in the hardware department, there\u2019s even more going on inside with AI. The only difference is that Samsung has almost nothing to do with those AI developments.<\/p>\n

See Galaxy Z Fold 7 at Samsung.com<\/a><\/p>\n

See Galaxy Z Flip 7 at Samsung.com<\/a><\/p>\n

This year, the inside part\u2014in particular AI\u2014is all about Google and its many, many, Gemini features<\/a>. In fact, during Samsung\u2019s keynote for the foldables<\/a>, Senior Vice President of Devices and Services at Google, Rick Osterloh, even took the stage to announce just how deep its Gemini integration is. First, everyone\u2019s favorite AI feature (or at least the most useful), Circle to Search<\/a>, is getting a dose of Google\u2019s AI Mode<\/a>. This will help Circle to Search\u2019s multimodal capabilities, paving the way for more nuanced answers to questions about images and products. I\u2019ve had a little time with Google\u2019s AI Mode<\/a>, and I think that whether it\u2019s actually better at searching is up for debate, but more nuance is certainly what Google is aiming at here, and it\u2019s definitely moving the amount of AI in the Z Fold 7 forward.<\/p>\n

\"CameraGemini Live can use computer vision and the Z Fold 7\u2019s camera to create calendar events from event information on a poster. \u00a9 Google<\/p>\n

Google also announced that, starting with Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Z Fold 7, you\u2019ll be able to long-press the power button and have Gemini take a gander at your screen while you\u2019re scrolling. With live access to what you\u2019re looking at, you can ask Gemini for help on stuff like product comparisons. Per Google:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSay you\u2019re deciding which suitcase to buy for your upcoming trip: Open Gemini Live, share your screen, scroll through the different products you\u2019re considering, and ask, \u2018which one should I choose based on material quality?’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And the applications don\u2019t stop there. Google says you can also wield Gemini Live on your camera to do stuff like coach you through cutting your bangs or styling a pair of glasses. Whether you want AI to do that type of thing for you is entirely up to you, but again, it\u2019s certainly a much deeper integration of Gemini into Samsung\u2019s foldable experience\u2014one that\u2019s extending to native Samsung apps. Gemini Live is also being unleashed on Calendar, Reminder, and Notes, according to Google, which feels like a very\u00a0deep partnership. In fact, partnership may not even be the word, actually. At this point Samsung\u2019s foldables feel like they\u2019re just as much Google phones as they are Samsung ones.<\/p>\n

\"Screen\u00a9 Google<\/p>\n

I\u2019m less sure about what that means for Samsung, but for Google, the prospect of being able to put Gemini features in front of that many eyeballs must be very enticing. Google, as you may have noticed this past I\/O<\/a> has been pouring resources into expanding Gemini with several new models and even AI subscriptions that group Google\u2019s latest AI tools into one monthly fee<\/a>. Google is offering Galaxy Z Fold 7 users that subscription for free, by the way\u2014at least for the first six months. After that it\u2019ll cost $20 per month, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

But even if Google\u2019s AI features are\u00a0more advanced than the competition, and even if they are actually useful, Google still needs to find an audience, and that\u2019s exactly what Samsung can offer it. The biggest hurdle for AI features in phones is still getting people to actually adopt them, and to do that, you need to get them in front of people, which Pixel phones aren\u2019t really doing<\/a>. To actually take off, those features also have to be useful, and that remains to be seen. We have our Galaxy Fold 7 in hand, so we\u2019ll have more to say on that soon, but until then, Samsung\u2019s newest foldables feel like a big win for Google.<\/p>\n

See Galaxy Z Fold 7 at Samsung.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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