Samsung starts testing One UI 8 based on Android 16

06 March 2025
The update to One UI 7 based on Android 15 hasn't even gone out yet.

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  • Anonymous
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  • 1 hour ago

Nothing is better than Google's stock Pixel UI. 💯🔝🚀

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    • Anonymous
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    • 1 hour ago

    Anonymous, 10 hours agoBeta 3 was stable on the 24 7/8 weeks ago bud.. 25 series w... moreWell april is ok. Wait for it.

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      • 5 hours ago

      Well to be fair OneUI is about 2 Android version ahead of stock android (Pixel), so even if update is 6 months late, feature set is still 1.5 year ahead of Pixel. For Samsung users Android version is just a meaningless number buried somewhere in system settings. 80% of new features come from Samsung and OneUI, not Android version (which by the way then gets copied by Google and applied into stock android lol).

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        • 10 hours ago

        Anonymous, 20 hours agoStill crying in comment sections? Remember Samsung isn'... moreBeta 3 was stable on the 24 7/8 weeks ago bud.. 25 series was pushed out start on jan.. it doesnt take 4 mths to tweak their software.
        Samsung have held off on a general release for so long now its never going to meet people's expectations once it starts to roll out sometime in April..and the longer they hold off the higher the expectations will be and or phone enthusiasts will have just lost interest entirely which by the majority of comments they already have..
        4 months of unnecessary waiting because samsung didn't bring enough to the table with the 25 line is just poor form. All the things I used to pay out on apple for samsung have become just as bad and even perhaps worse.. I know samsung are definitely not on the forefront when it comes to hardware but when they start using there software as a selling point and can't even get that right (on purpose) they're adding insult to injury and showing no loyalty to their consumers whatsoever.

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          • 12 hours ago

          Unwanted android skin

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            • 14 hours ago

            DarlingYext, 22 hours agoI feel like Samsung could just tell people next year, or so... moreSamsung does not delay the updates because they are greedy and to can sell their last series of phones. Or because they promise things that are difficult to achieve. Or because they are incompetent.
            They just "polish". 🤣🤣🤣

              YourLocalPhoneCritic, 19 hours agoiOS updates roll out to all iOS/iPadOS devices at the same ... moreNeeding to shave off old code isn’t why Samsung takes so long to release updates. There’s two reasons why they take so long: first, they make way too many phones and variants of each phone. Both Apple and Samsung need to optimize their OS for each device because that’s just how making an OS works, but Samsung takes a much longer time to do this because they make 20 different models a year (plus separate model variants for each carrier), while Apple only makes 4-5. This means that Samsung has to spend a lot longer tweaking OneUI to work properly on each device compared to Apple. The second reason Samsung takes so long is so that they can give people a reason to buy their new phones. By not giving the S24 OneUI 7 even though they promised 7 years of updates, Samsung can give people a reason to buy the S25 when it’s only a tiny upgrade over the S24. This is a shitty business practice and there should be laws against it

                DomtheCuber, 08 Mar 2025“But in the future, they'll develop it once & it w... moreiOS updates roll out to all iOS/iPadOS devices at the same time, worldwide, to all carriers. Instantly.

                Why can apple do this, but not Samsung? If you visit the SamMobile firmware page, you'll see that Samsung's updates are segmented by multiple factors:
                - Device
                - Exynos/Snapdragon chip models
                - Region
                - Carrier-lock models
                - Enterprise-Edition models
                (Not even Google has this fragmentation)

                If Samsung wants to reduce these factors & make updates more streamlined, they need to shave off a lot of old code. They have to spend a little bit of time so that they can start fresh again. If you read about earlier OneUI 7 rumors you'll know that they had to remove TouchWiz code that's been left untouched for a decade. They need to release one Exynos/Snapdragon model to all regions.

                The real disappointment is not in delaying OneUI 7. The real disappointment is when OneUI 8 (& later) have the same janky fragmentation as previous OneUI versions.

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                  • 20 hours ago

                  Another reason to use a Google Pixel.

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 20 hours ago

                    Still crying in comment sections? Remember Samsung isn't Pixel for you. So its very advanced interface and this time its getting a huge update. Pixels already got it and? No any changes. Same boring ugly interface. Wait for One UI 7 and you will get a stable and cool update.

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                      Hmm, 08 Mar 2025Samsung promised certain years of OS updates and as far as ... moreSure. Why not release Android 15 when most other brands push Android 16?

                        eepymeowers, 22 hours agoyall will find any excuse to defend Samsung I feel like Samsung could just tell people next year, or so, that their S24 series isn't actually going to receive all the 7 years worth of OS updates because the hardware can't handle it and people would just believe them, that they want the best for the users.

                          Charchian, 08 Mar 2025I actually appreciate the fact that they're taking the... more"So yes Samsung is trying HARD to give the best experience ever to midrange and specially flagship device users"

                          You are correct, they are indeed trying hard, just not succeeding.

                            Charchian, 08 Mar 2025I actually appreciate the fact that they're taking the... moreyall will find any excuse to defend Samsung

                              DarlingYext, 08 Mar 2025"Don't know why people don't want to wait fo... moreBefore I got a Samsung phone I avoided them like the plague. I just hated the overly vibrant screen on the S2 (and it looked so yellow to me, for some reason). I had phones from Motorola, Asus, Sony, Honor, Huawei, HTC, so lots of different brands. Most of their phones had a bunch of some more some less annoying problems after major updates, but my S23U always just worked well. That's why I personally dont mind slower yet more polished updates.

                              Also yeah older phones will also work without new updates, but there is no guarantee for how long or if the older OS version will support everything flawlessly in the near future. It's a give and take, no matter how you twist it. Fast updates feel better but can cause issues, slow updates are more polished, but waiting can feel bad. Can't make everybody happy.

                                I Just Read, 08 Mar 2025Sure, but does it have to mean that they have to be slower ... moreI see, a certified Samsung Beta tester working hard to defend their beloved company.

                                You are just as much of an issue as Samsung's current play with their users is, making them wait on the intentionally delayed software updates.

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                                  • 08 Mar 2025

                                  Dang, at this point flashing gsi rom is the way. I dont care about knox etc.

                                    Hmm, 08 Mar 2025Samsung promised certain years of OS updates and as far as ... more"They didn't promise new Android versions to be released same day as Pixel or anything like that."

                                    It doesn't have to be on the same day, but being 6 months late is just pathetic.

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                                      DarlingYext, 08 Mar 2025"..other phone makers are also struggling to add AI fe... moreSamsung promised certain years of OS updates and as far as I know they haven't broken this promise with any of their phones, even cheapest ones. They didn't promise new Android versions to be released same day as Pixel or anything like that. This is all in your head.

                                        I actually appreciate the fact that they're taking their time working on stable version of one ui 7 so that they guarantee a smooth experience overall
                                        (Some people and even websites may say why f06 uses one ui 7 out of the box and the answer is simple : no matter if they mention [core] in software information section or not, budget phones always get something like uncompleted software or you can say the UI isn't polished and YES nobody cares much about that simply because it's a budget phone after all)
                                        So yes Samsung is trying HARD to give the best experience ever to midrange and specially flagship device users

                                        Samsung forever 💎

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