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Pre-order a Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphone right now and enjoy huge savings
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Samsung just announced three versions of its new Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphones, featuring big, AI-powered advancements. The phones can create a text-based summary of a voice recording; instantly enhance your digital images or videos; perform real-time language translation and much more. So, if you’re excited to discover how AI can enhance your experience using a smartphone, you’ll want to pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+ or Galaxy S24 Ultra now.
Both Samsung and Best Buy are offering some enticing pre-order deals, including enhanced trade-in credit, a memory upgrade, plus bonus credit or an e-gift card. Even bigger savings is available to students. The new phones begin shipping Jan. 29.
Pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
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Head over to Samsung’s website right now to pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and get up to $750 in enhanced trade-in credit, a free memory upgrade and $100 in bonus Samsung credit. This deal is only available for a limited time.
The biggest innovations in of the new Galaxy S24 smartphones use artificial intelligence. Perform real-time language translation when speaking on the phone, during in-person conversations or when text messaging. Battery capacity is 5,000 mAh.
This new smartphone runs Android 14 and features a 6.8-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2x display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 3,120 x 1,440 pixel resolution. The screen also offers 2,600 nits brightness. The S23 Ultra comes bundled with 12GB of RAM and has a main rear-facing camera that offers an incredible 200MP resolution. It’s IP68 rated for water resistance.
The S24 Ultra measures 6.38 x 3.11 x 0.33 inches and weighs 8.21 ounces. It comes in a variety of colors, including titanium gray, cobalt violet, amber yellow and onyx black. Choose between 256GB, 512GB or 1TB of internal storage.
Powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform for Galaxy processor, the price of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra starts at $1,300.
Pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S24+
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Pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S24+ smartphone right now from Samsung’s website and get up to $650 in enhanced trade-in credit, a free memory upgrade and $75 in Samsung credit.
This version of the Galaxy S24+ also runs Android 14. It features a 6.7-inch AMOLED 2x display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 3,120 x 1,440 pixel resolution. It comes with 12GB of RAM and has a main rear-facing camera that offers 50MP resolution. It’s IP68 rated for water resistance.
The Galaxy S24+ measures 6.24 x 2.98 x 0.3 inches and weighs 6.94 ounces. It comes in a variety of colors, including amber yellow, onyx black, marble gray, cobalt violet. Choose between 128GB or 256GB or 512GB of internal storage. Battery capacity is 4,900 mAh.
Powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform for Galaxy processor, the Samsung Galaxy S23+ starts at $1,000.
Pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S24
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When you pre-order the base-level Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphone immediately, you’ll receive up to $550 in enhanced trade-in credit, a free memory upgrade and a $25 Samsung credit.
This core version of the Galaxy S24 runs Android 14 and features a 6.2-inch AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 2,340 x 1,080 pixel resolution. It comes with 12GB of RAM and has a main rear-facing camera that offers 50MP resolution. It’s IP68 rated for water resistance.
As the smallest phone in the Galaxy S24 series, it measures 5.78 x 2.77 x 0.29 inches and weighs 5.92 ounces. It comes in a variety of colors, including onyx black, marble gray, cobalt violet and amber yellow. Choose between 128GB or 256GB of internal storage.
Powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform for Galaxy processor, the price of the Samsung Galaxy S23 starts at $800.
Best Buy is also offering great pre-order deals
If you pre-order the new Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphones from Best Buy, you’ll save up to $870 through extra trade-in credit, plus get a memory upgrade and up to a $150 Best Buy e-gift card. This deal kicks off today and runs until Jan. 30.
Are the new Samsung Galaxy S24 smartphones worth it?
This year, the Samsung Galaxy S24 provides new ways to use cutting-edge artificial intelligence to enhance calls, text messaging and many other features. Even Google Search and Google Lens have been dramatically upgraded within the Galaxy S24, allowing users to discover exactly the information they’re looking for, when it’s wanted and needed.
We’re particularly impressed with the new Circle to Search, Live Translate, Note Assist, Generative Edit and Chat Assist features. But even taking and sharing digital photos and video clips has gotten an upgrade. And with the speed and power of these new phones, mobile gaming is being taken to a new level. We also love that the Galaxy S24 Ultra supports the Galaxy S Pen stylus, and all of the models include an arsenal of new security features.
Plus, tap or circle on anything on the screen — such as text or a photo — to quickly learn more about what you’re looking at. And with the power of generative AI, you can also now ask more complex questions and get much more robust information, virtually instantly.
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Actor Danny Masterson, who is serving a sentence of 30 years to life in prison, is seeking to overturn his conviction for the rape of two women, with his attorneys arguing he did not receive a fair trial.
A Los Angeles jury found Masterson guilty last year of two counts of rape by force or fear for assaulting two women at his Hollywood Hills home in separate incidents in 2003 — during the same time he was starring on the Fox TV’s “That ’70s Show.” The jury deadlocked on the case involving a third alleged victim. The May 2023 trial followed a mistrial in November 2022.
Masterson, 48, is incarcerated at California Men’s Colony, a minimum- and medium-security prison in San Luis Obispo County.
Cliff Gardner, the attorney handling Masterson’s appeal, filed an appellant’s opening brief Tuesday that alleges witnesses told different versions of their stories over time. The brief also argues that evidence that would have helped Masterson’s defense was not presented due to what Gardner describes as erroneous rulings by the court. Gardner argues in the court filings that those factors support reversing the convictions.
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Masterson’s defense argued at trial that he knew both women socially and his sexual relations with them were consensual.
“It is true, of course, that a defendant is not entitled to a perfect trial. He is, however, still entitled to a fair one,” the brief reads. “Danny Masterson received neither. Reversal is required.”
During the trial, one of the women Masterson was later convicted of raping broke down on the witness stand as she testified that he choked her and smothered her with a pillow when she tried fighting back as he assaulted her, according to the Associated Press.
“I could not breathe,” she said, crying.
When the prosecutor asked what she was thinking at the time, she said she feared for her life, AP reported.
“That he was going to kill me,” she said. “That I was going to die.”
She later testified Masterson took out a gun from inside his bedside table and told her to be quiet when they heard voices at the door. She told jurors she was in and out of consciousness through the night.
Masterson and the victims were members of the Church of Scientology, which became a central focus of the case as the women alleged they were stalked and harassed after reporting the allegations to police.
They sued Masterson and the church years earlier in connection with those accusations.
During the trial, Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller told jurors the church had retaliated against the victims for reporting the the crimes — the rape of a 28-year-old woman in April 2003 and assault of a 23-year-old woman, also that year.
“What happened after they were drugged, they were raped by this man over here,” Mueller said, as he pointed across the courtroom toward Masterson during closing arguments. “You have an opportunity to show there is justice. It does exist.”
The church released a statement at the time refuting the allegations.
“The church has no policy prohibiting or discouraging members from reporting criminal conduct of anyone, Scientologists or not, to law enforcement,” the statement reads. “Quite the opposite, church policy explicitly demands Scientologists abide by all laws of the land. All allegations to the contrary are totally false.”
In the newly filed brief for Masterson’s appeal, Gardner alleges the victims changed their stories “dramatically” over the years and had a financial motive to do so. Gardner argues in court documents that though the statute of limitations to file a lawsuit seeking damages had expired before the trial, under state law it would be revived if Masterson was convicted of forcible rape involving multiple victims.
Gardner says in the brief that a court ruling prevented evidence related to that argument from being admitted at trial.
He also states in the court filings that some witnesses died before the case went to trial, more than a decade after being reported to law enforcement, and alleges that police lost a tape-recorded witness interview that would have helped Masterson’s defense.
After the six-day trial resulting in Masterson’s convictions, one of the women he was convicted of raping released a statement saying she was relieved he had been found guilty.
“I am experiencing a complex array of emotions – relief, exhaustion, strength, sadness – knowing that my abuser, Danny Masterson, will face accountability for his criminal behavior,” said a statement from one of the women whom Masterson was convicted of raping at his home in 2003.