The Beta opened on Dec 8th, there will be 4 or 5 Beta builds. That takes us well into January at least. It will debut on the S S26 series in Q1 of 2026.
So who's ready for the One UI update for android 17 or the 8.5 Beta for lol jst got the ui8 and it's not horrible but Def was hoping for more changes like ONE UI 7 had but hopefully it has better battery life
Lots of changes bring lots of tears. While tech-focused people love the novelty of new software features and updated design, UI7 was hard on a lot of people who weren't expecting their device to look/work differently.
The dust has mostly settled now, and users have largely adapted, as they always do... but in this moment (and for the immediate future,) Samsung is wise to make gradual, incremental, positive changes.
Yes I understand all that I'm very tech oriented and tech focused I love my Samsung s24 plus and honestly so far after I updated I cleared my cache partition and my phone battery is noticeably better so that's worth it all in itself lol but I jst thought there was gonna be more AI stuff but my now bar is finally working which is didn't with one ui 7 so I'm overall happy so far but was jst expecting a little more but I'm grateful as is.
