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

If you’re a Samsung phone user, you can take advantage of a pretty sweet offer: a free year of Perplexity Pro.

Samsung doesn’t appear to have made any official announcement about the promotion, so it would be easy not to know about it, but users are seeing the offer under the “Deals and events” tab of the Galaxy Store app.

This is a $240 value if you pay monthly, or a $200 value if you pay yearly.

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The deal comes just a week after news broke that Samsung and Perplexity were in some sort of partnership. Samsung will be preloading Perplexity’s app and assistant on future Samsung devices, and plugging Perplexity’s AI search engine into the Samsung web browser.

Perplexity hasn’t been shy about offering freebies to entice users to check out its service. It promoted a free year of Perplexity Pro to anyone with a .gov email address earlier this year, and a free year to Xfinity customers and college students.

How Samsung users can get Perplexity Pro for free

Here’s how to get your free year of Perplexity Pro.

1. You’ll need to start clean, so if you already have the Perplexity app downloaded, delete it.
2. Go to the Galaxy Store and download the Perplexity app.
3. Open the app and make an account or log in if you already have one (free accounts only).

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If you follow those steps, your free account should be upgraded to Perplexity Pro (it worked when a ZDNET staffer tried it just now). You’ll know you’ve received the upgrade when 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 a free AI tool that searches the web for real-time answers to any questions (just like ChatGPT).

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Perplexity Pro gives you several advantages over a free account, like more usage of Pro Search (which breaks down your searches with multi-step reasoning and programming), different AI models to choose from, a file analysis option that lets you upload documents for summaries or insights, the ability to ask questions about a picture or screenshot, and more.

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