Samsung Is Rolling Out A Smartphone Subscription Next Month

It looks for illustration Samsung is yet caller to rotation retired a paid subscription for its AI-powered smartphones, but it mightiness not look for illustration what we were expecting.

According to ETNews, Samsung Electronics vice president Han Jong-hee has confirmed that nan company’s AI Subscription Club, which launched past December for immoderate of Samsung’s location appliances successful South Korea, will soon rotation retired to immoderate Galaxy phones and nan upcoming Ballie AI robot.

“We will usage nan subscription activity to Galaxy smartphones starting adjacent month,” he says. “Ballie will beryllium introduced first successful Korea and nan US, and we strategy to proviso it arsenic a subscription successful Korea.”

The AI Subscription Club isn’t a petition to entree nan Galaxy AI features connected Samsung’s phones and different devices, which nan institution has antecedently said will enactment free to users astatine slightest until nan extremity of 2025, pinch plans beyond that constituent unconfirmed.

The exemplary presently gives Korean consumers nan expertise to mobility up to a monthly subscription for their AI-powered TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, and more, including optional repair and attraction services, for nan liking of a small upfront cost.

It’s not clear if nan subscription exemplary will turn beyond South Korea, but there’s a chance we’ll find retired overmuch soon. Samsung has a Galaxy Unpacked arena successful San Jose scheduled for January 22nd, erstwhile it is expected to unveil nan Galaxy S25 series.