These weeks ago, given the delay that suffered the deployment of One UI 7 based on Android 15, it began to filter that One UI 8 based on Android 16 would arrive earlier than thought and even that it could be passed directly to this version. Now a report suggests that the Korean manufacturer is already developing One UI 8.5 in the next series Galaxy S26.
The best example to understand One UI 8.5 is how Samsung called the next version of One UI 6 as one UI 6.1. A series of novelties separated one from the other to even update some mobiles to this version before moving to One UI 7 just last year; that in fact it was another of the reasons why it was delayed by taking a little longer of the account to deploy it.
The proposal is now the same, although with an important nuance, especially since now Samsung has in his hand with other times and a greater window to be able to develop the One UI 8.0 version and the next One UI 8.5. The first would be when falling in summersince Android 16, as everything planned, would be in the month of June, so the first beta of One Ui 8 would fall for those weeks as it has been known these past weeks.
In Sammy Police Now they have discovered references to One UI 8.5 in the Samsung system code that suggests that version 8.1 would not deploy. It would be necessary to go to 2020 to meet a version of software that uses 0.5 with One UI 2.5. It is not something new, but it is surprising that now the manufacturer will call this version.
The appearance of One UI 8.5 suggests that Next Galaxy S26 Samsung would launch with One UI 8.5. And another rumor appeared that dropped that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7, which would be launched between the months of July and August, would arrive with the new One UI 8.0 version based on Android 16.
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The new report, according to GSMArenait provides other information of great value, and that is that one 8.5 could be launched as an important renewal with an updated visual identity and improved functions. And there are more, since Ice Universe, one of the filters most linked to information about Samsung, maintains that the Samsung’s objective is alinear one UI with the official launch of the stable version of Android annually.
Which means that One UI 8.0 Based on Android 16 would fall with the Z FOLD 7 and Z FLIP 7 and ONE UI 8.5 would officially arrive with the Galaxy S26. All these movements in the One UI displacement window have to do with the changes made by Google that began with the first version for Android 16 developers in the fall last year.
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