Samsung is Rolling Out a Smartphone Subscription Next Month

An anonymous reader shares a report: It looks like Samsung is finally ready to roll out a paid subscription for its AI-powered smartphones, but it might not look like what we were expecting.

According to ETNews, Samsung Electronics vice chair Han Jong-hee has confirmed that the company's AI Subscription Club, which launched last December for some of Samsung's home appliances in South Korea, will soon roll out to both Galaxy phones and the upcoming Ballie AI robot.

'We will apply the subscription service to Galaxy smartphones starting next month,' he says. 'Ballie will be introduced first in Korea and the US, and we plan to supply it as a subscription in Korea.'

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