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This week, Samsung dropped an surprising shock for Galaxy S25 customers, Galaxy Watch 8 collection allegedly clears one other certification, Nothing kills its Glyph lights on its subsequent flagship, OnePlus sneaks in two new telephone on the Ace 5 collection, and Pixel 10 Professional leak particulars a well-known design. Let’s dive in!
Galaxy S25 customers get the primary style of One UI 8
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Galaxy S25 customers have been in for a shock drop this week, as Samsung determined to provide its newest flagship telephones an surprising replace.
In a prolonged weblog publish, Samsung introduced that it is kicking off One UI 8’s first beta this week for Galaxy S25, S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Ultra, which shipped with One UI 7 out of the field early this yr. One UI 8 brings all of Android 16‘s perks to the Galaxy S25 for the primary time, and beta-enrolled customers check out new options earlier than they’re publicly launched.
To begin, Samsung’s AI Choose instrument is now quicker than ever. Based on Android Central’s Nick Sutrich in his One UI 8 beta hands-on, it takes roughly 2.2 seconds to look one thing up. One UI 8 additionally takes multitasking to the following degree, with this 90:10 characteristic, which helps you to resize a break up window all the way down to 10% of its regular dimension, serving to customers change between two apps with a single faucet with out feeling just like the app is crammed when the display screen is break up.
Samsung’s Climate app, Reminder, Well being, and Auracast additionally get main glow-ups with this new replace. Moreover, Samsung additionally confirmed that its next-gen foldables phones will launch later this yr with a steady model of One UI 8.
For extra information and knowledge on Samsung’s upcoming foldables, try our Ultimate Guide.
Galaxy Watch 8 collection allegedly clears one other certification
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We is perhaps simply mere weeks away from the next Unpacked event, and it has been raining leaks.
The latest one comes from of us at Xpert Choose who declare to have noticed each watches from the Galaxy Watch 8 series move by way of the CMIIT certification (Chinese language Ministry of Business and Data Expertise).
As we will see within the screenshot, each certificates point out mannequin numbers hooked up to the alleged upcoming wearables, SM-L3350 and SM-L5050, respectively. Earlier leaks have indicated that these mannequin numbers appear to be related to the Galaxy Watch 8 (LTE) and the Watch 8 Basic (LTE).
The certification notes inside the screenshot describe each these gadgets to have eSIM expertise with an unbiased eUICC chip, which is able to enable customers to hook up with mobile networks with out the telephone, which is what the earlier leaks have been indicating as properly.
Nothing is giving up its Glyph lights
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Nothing has been dropping several hints on X about its upcoming flagship Nothing Cellphone 3. In its most up-to-date publish, it prompt that its subsequent flagship is not going to have the signature Glyph Gentle interface on the rear panel, which has been featured on earlier fashions.
In an virtually simple publish, the corporate introduced the top of the Glyph Interface in an X video, captioned “we killed the Glyph Interface,” the place the Phone 1‘s lights dramatically blink out to black.
This might probably imply that its subsequent flagship system, Nothing Cellphone 3 might not present up with these rear mild, a characteristic that drew a number of individuals to purchase the Nothing telephones within the first place.
That mentioned, if the corporate takes away the one factor that units it aside, what would its rear panel really appear to be? Some speculate that the telephone might include a dot-matrix show on the again. The teasers of Cellphone 3 had movies with the identical dot-matrix sample, displaying a pixelated “3” or Pac-Man-style animations with dots, majorly hinting at a change in visible design.
OnePlus snuck in two new telephones on the Ace 5 collection
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OnePlus has simply launched two new telephones: the OnePlus Ace 5 Extremely Version and the Ace 5 Racing Version.
Designed with gaming fanatics in thoughts, these telephones mix modern design, highly effective {hardware}, and spectacular battery life for an “final gaming expertise.” The telephones are designed to steadiness equally in each palms, decreasing hand fatigue throughout intense gaming periods.
On the core, each gadgets are powered an “Esports triple chip,” comprising the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus chipset, the Lingxi touch-control chip, and the gaming-focused G1 Wi-Fi chip. Each gadgets sport the identical 50MP major lens and a 16MP entrance digital camera, with different points setting them aside.
The OnePlus Ace 5 Extremely and Racing Version come filled with Android 15 and Shade OS out of the field. Each gadgets are available in three colorways, beginning at roughly $346.88 and $249.71, respectively.
Pixel 10 collection colorways might have leaked
Leaks are pouring in about Google’s upcoming Pixel collection, and the newest one speculates on the potential colorways of the system.
MysticLeaks on Telegram claims there is perhaps 4 choices obtainable throughout the Pixel 10 collection launch. The tipster states that the usual Pixel 10 might arrive in 4 colours: Obsidian, blue, Iris (purple), and Limoncello (yellow). This coloration array is barely totally different than the Pixel 9’s Peony (pink), Wintergreen (minty inexperienced), Porcelain (white), and Obsidian. The Pixel 10 Professional and 10 Professional XL might present up in Obsidian, Inexperienced, Sterling (gray), and Porcelain (white).
Moreover, we might have gotten a glimpse of the Pixel 10 Professional whereas it was being filmed for a industrial.
The leak comes from a photographer, Mark Teasdale, on X (by way of DroidLife), who noticed the telephone being filmed with a person holding the alleged Pixel 10 Pro, going by the pictures. The publish on X, nonetheless, has now been taken down, for unknown causes.
Extra tales this week
These are a few of the greatest tales from this week. In the meantime, listed here are another tales which can be price catching up on:
