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Audio Eraser, Nightography Video on the Samsung Galaxy S25 series

Plus other content creation things

Published

January 23, 2025

Rodneil Quiteles

The AI capabilities of the Samsung Galaxy S25 series extends even to content creation. Two standout features are Audio Eraser and Nightography Video.

Audio Eraser

Perhaps one of the most impressive additions to the Galaxy S25 series’ content creation suite, Audio Eraser lets you take any of your videos and adjust the audio levels to your liking.

The tool doesn’t just reduce noise. It gives you a pretty granular control of the sound present in your video.

You can adjust the volume levels of Speaker, Music, Wind, Nature, and Crowd. This could prove to be one of their most useful and powerful tools for content creation. Audio Eraser might just be one of the most powerful and most useful addition to Galaxy AI.

Nightography video

Gotta hand it to Samsung for sticking with “nightography.” Now, it extends to video performance. With their “Next Gen ProVisual Engine”, the Samsung Galaxy S25 series is able to capture better video in night and low light scenarios.

With it, they are promising less noise and more details. It performs double-analysis noise removal to make sure your low light videos come out as crisp as possible. This analysis happens in real-time.

There’s also what they call the Custom STF (Spatio-Temporal Filter) that distinguishes between moving and stationary objects and applies noise reduction as needed.

It even supports 10-bit HDR for a wider dynamic range for your videos.

New 50MP Ultra Wide camera

New on the Galaxy S25 series is the 50MP Ultra Wide camera. It promises increased resolution and brightness range, better performance under different lighting conditions, and four times better detail than the Galaxy S24 Series.

It’s also the same camera that Samsung utilizes for macro shots. Those are for when you want to get really up close to tinier subjects.

Galaxy Log/ Virtual Aperture

Onto more shooting tools, the Galaxy S25 series has Galaxy Log and Virtual Aperture.

Galaxy Log will spot overexposed areas of your shot during preview. While recording, it promises to deliver Dynamic range for vibrant, true to life videos.

And while editing, you can apply color correction with exclusive LUTs (Look Up Tables) for control precision.

Visual Aperture, meanwhile, is an AI-powered tool that mimics the function of adjusting your aperture to adjust the look of your shot as you tinker with the aperture values presented. This helps in achieving what many call a “cinematic look” which is achieving some depth of field on your shot.

Generative Edit & Portrait Studio

Generative edit and Portrait Studio are both features introduced in the Galaxy S24 series. For the Galaxy S25 series, they have been refined.

Generative edit is now more accurate whether that’s applying magic erase or extending your image.

Meanwhile, Portrait Studio will now provide more realistic portraits. They are promising accurate and natural tones along with true-to-life-facial expressions.

Hardware and Performance

The entire Galaxy S25 line is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC that’s especially tuned for Galaxy.

As for hardware changes, the Galaxy S25 series is slimmer and lighter compared to the Galaxy S24 series. The corners and edges have also been rounded for a better grip. For durability, there’s improved titanium and Corning Gorilla Armor 2.

Colorways

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Series come in various color options:

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra:

Titanium Silverblue, Titanium Whitesilver, Titanium Gray, Titanium Black. With online exclusives being the following: Titanium Blackgold, Titanium Jetblack, Titanium Jadegreen.

Meanwhile, the Galaxy S25+ and Galaxy S25 share the following color options:

Navy, Icyblue, Mint, and Silver Shadow. Online exclusives are: Blueblack, Coralred, and Pinkgold.

Smart now accepts pre-orders for the Samsung Galaxy S25 Series

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Next year’s iPhone might have a curved Liquid Glass screen

A lot of plans are in store for the iPhone’s 20th anniversary.

Published

April 29, 2026

Luigi Leonardo

Apple’s Liquid Glass design marked a return to the three-dimensional aesthetic of Windows Vista. Not content with letting the new design thrive solely on the software side, Apple is reportedly bringing “Liquid Glass” to the iPhone’s hardware.

Next year is important to the history of the iPhone as the ubiquitous phone will celebrate its 20^th anniversary. Apple will definitely have major plans to herald the milestone.

According to rumors (via Ice Universe on X), the 20^th anniversary iPhone will have a “curved display,” much like the aesthetics of Liquid Glass. However, the device will not be “anything like the curved screen solutions we have seen on Android phones over the years.”

Instead, the iPhone’s curve will be subtle and will rely on “optical refraction” to produce the illusion of a truly curved screen. The ultimate goal is to reduce the bezel as much as possible, creating an all-screen iPhone.

Naturally, such a form factor comes with questions. For example, where will Apple store the Dynamic Island and its hardware underneath? How will cases work if there are no bezels?

It’s still very early in the news cycle of next year’s iPhone. In fact, reports about the iPhone 18 series are just getting started. As with all rumors this early on, take it with a grain of salt. However, if anything, incorporating “Liquid Glass” into the iPhone’s hardware feels poetic.

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Foldable iPhone might be called the iPhone Ultra

Goodbye, iPhone Fold.

Published

April 29, 2026

Luigi Leonardo

With so many rumors coming out as of late, it’s fair to assume that the first foldable iPhone is really coming this year. Right now, there’s still so much time before its projected launch date in the fall, meaning a lot of chances for more rumors to pop out. Case in point, today sees the rumored name for this upcoming device show up: the iPhone Ultra.

We’ve been calling the foldable iPhone as the iPhone Fold for a while now. After all, what else would you call a foldable in a world dominated by the Galaxy Z Fold and Flip series?

According to a new rumor from Macworld, Apple will resurrect the Ultra moniker, which last made an appearance in the Apple Watch Ultra series, for its upcoming premium iPhone model. The foldable iPhone will be called, very simply, the iPhone Ultra.

Much like the iPhone Air, the iPhone Ultra will not have a number in its name, making it distinct from the upcoming iPhone 18 series. As a foldable, it makes sense for Apple to establish its own series for the form factor.

Additionally, Apple will reportedly use the same Ultra naming convention for a new series of MacBooks with a touchscreen OLED display. The MacBook Ultra might come out next year.

Both the iPhone Ultra and the MacBook Ultra will likely occupy top spots in Apple’s gallery of devices. Apple has even reportedly pushed the regular iPhone 18 duo’s launch to next year, clearing the room for the Pro duo and the Ultra for this fall’s event.

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This rumored iPhone 18 color will make you switch phones

The rumored Dark Cherry color looks so premium.

Published

April 27, 2026

Luigi Leonardo

Image source: Macworld

(Cosmic) orange is the new black. With the iPhone 17 series, Apple introduced the color as the next fashion statement for the ubiquitous phone. If you see an orange phone today, chances are that it’s an all-new iPhone 17 Pro Max. This year, the series might get another new statement color: Dark Cherry.

Though the usual suspects of colors will always be there, Apple often leaves a bit of room for more experimental options for those who want to stand out with their new phone. As you can probably tell from the ongoing deluge of orange, the strategy is working well for Apple.

According to Macworld, Apple is working on a Dark Cherry option for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.

Red isn’t a color foreign to the iPhone. In the past, several generations included a limited red colorway option. If the reports are true, red might be a standard option, rather than a limited edition.

But, of course, Dark Cherry is different from the red that we’re used to. Instead of the bright red, the new option will be more similar to the color of wine.

Besides Dark Cherry, the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will also have Light Blue, Dark Gray, and Silver as options. Though Light Blue also looks great, the wine-like color looks like a personal highlight for me. I didn’t know I wanted a wine-colored iPhone until I saw the renders for this.