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Allison Johnson

Allison Johnson

Allison reviews smartphones and covers wireless carriers for The Verge. Previously, she wrote about digital cameras and mobile photography at DPReview. She's a small phone enthusiast, home barista in training, and a roller derby retiree. You can find her on Threads most hours of the day at @allisonjo1.

Galaxy AI cometh.

Samsung’s One UI 6.1 update arrives this Thursday, bringing AI features to last year’s devices including the S23 series, S23 FE, Z Flip 5, Z Fold 5, and the Tab S9 series. They’ll get the full suite of AI features announced with the Galaxy S24 series, including Circle to Search and live language translation for phone calls.

It’s all free of charge — at least for now.


Samsung “Galaxy AI” promo image with phones and tablets that will receive the One UI 6.1 update.
“Galaxy AI is here”
Image: Samsung
Oh snap, another midrange smartphone chip just dropped.

Qualcomm just announced the Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3, sitting just below the also recently announced 8S Gen 3. It can run Llama 2 and Gemini Nano on-device and supports Wi-Fi 7. It’ll start appearing in phones in the next few months, and OnePlus says it will use the chipset in a device — my money’s on this guy.


Rendering of the Snapdragon 7 Plus mobile chipset.
Image: Qualcomm

These toddler games for iPad are actually good — and that’s all too rare

Sago Mini’s adorable games don’t make me want to throw my toddler’s tablet into the sea.