Check out the Galaxy S24 Ultra running One UI 7

Samsung kicked off its Developer Conference (SDC) today and made One UI 7 official. However, while One UI's track record had us anticipating a release this month, it will arrive next year - ouch!

Still, let's focus on the positives - like this Galaxy S24 Ultra running the upcoming OS.

It's a short clip that nonetheless reveals some key details, like the redesigned icons, a new standalone command center you access with a swipe from the right side of the screen - like you get on popular Chinese phones and the iPhone. The notification area should be a swipe from the left.

The animations are clearly different, but at this early stage, it's likely they'll change multiple times. Finally, we get the settings menu, which is slightly redesigned but more or less unchanged.

Reader comments

Feature packed.. lol They've been removing features for ages.

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Left them long ago when they started dropping hardware features and I couldn't stand their horrible overly saturated cameras. Galaxy Note 9 was the perfect phone they've going downhill since