Samsung tipped to release its first Android 16 beta this month

Samsung tipped to release its first Android 16 beta this month

Samsung is just coming out of the release of One UI 7, where a few road bumps made things a little more difficult than likely planned. According to new reports, the first beta version of One UI 8, based on Android 16, might launch sometime this month, as hard as that might be to believe. more…

Named the possible date of launching the beta-test of the firmware One UI 8 - The Times Hub

~ ~ Samsung is preparing to start the beta program One UI 8 for the third week of May. Although a public release is expected in the second half of 2025, the preparation is […]

Test firmware has just appeared on the Samsung servers for the first time and now well-informed insiders report on Samsung's plans for the next Galaxy updates. It is confirmed that Android 16 or One UI 8 will follow very quickly, although the distribution of One UI 7 with Android 15 had only started a few weeks ago. The public test phase of One UI 8 with Android is scheduled to start in the third week of May, according to Sammobile, a wider avai…

We went hands-on with One UI 8 "beta" on a Galaxy S25 Ultra

Well, if you needed more evidence that Samsung really will launch the One UI 8 beta program much sooner than One UI 7, we have it: we have already tested out a One UI 8 beta firmware (S938BXXU3ZYEA, where the Z indicates beta software) on a Galaxy S25 Ultra! That's right: Samsung is already internally testing beta builds of One UI 8, and we managed to get our hands on what appears to be the very first beta firmware and took it for a spin. But …