Samsung is giving existing Galaxy phone users a $240 gift for free - here's how to accept it

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If you're a Samsung phone user, you tin instrumentality vantage of a beauteous saccharine offer: a escaped twelvemonth of Perplexity Pro.

Samsung doesn't look to person made immoderate authoritative announcement astir the promotion, truthful it would beryllium casual not to cognize astir it, but users are seeing the connection nether the "Deals and events" tab of the Galaxy Store app.

This is simply a $240 worth if you wage monthly, oregon a $200 worth if you wage yearly.

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The woody comes conscionable a week aft quality broke that Samsung and Perplexity were successful immoderate benignant of partnership. Samsung volition beryllium preloading Perplexity's app and adjunct connected aboriginal Samsung devices, and plugging Perplexity's AI hunt motor into the Samsung web browser.

Perplexity hasn't been shy astir offering freebies to entice users to cheque retired its service. It promoted a escaped twelvemonth of Perplexity Pro to anyone with a .gov email address earlier this year, and a escaped twelvemonth to Xfinity customers and assemblage students.

How Samsung users tin get Perplexity Pro for escaped

Here's however to get your escaped twelvemonth of Perplexity Pro.

1. You'll request to commencement clean, truthful if you already person the Perplexity app downloaded, delete it.
2. Go to the Galaxy Store and download the Perplexity app.
3. Open the app and marque an relationship oregon log successful if you already person 1 (free accounts only).

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If you travel those steps, your escaped relationship should beryllium upgraded to Perplexity Pro (it worked erstwhile a ZDNET staffer tried it conscionable now). You'll cognize you've received the upgrade erstwhile you get an email titled "You've been upgraded to Perplexity Pro via Samsung Galaxy."

What you get with Perplexity Pro

If you're not familiar, Perplexity is simply a escaped AI instrumentality that searches the web for real-time answers to immoderate questions (just similar ChatGPT).

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Perplexity Pro gives you respective advantages implicit a escaped account, similar much usage of Pro Search (which breaks down your searches with multi-step reasoning and programming), antithetic AI models to take from, a record investigation enactment that lets you upload documents for summaries oregon insights, the quality to inquire questions astir a representation oregon screenshot, and more.

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