Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy.
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Apr 14, 2025, 01:51am EDT
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Not a good weekend for Galaxy owners.
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Samsung has an update problem. The Galaxy-maker was nearly six months behind Google’s Pixel with its One UI 7 port of Android 15, and critical security fixes for Android’s all too frequent zero-day attacks have often trailed Pixels as well — albeit not this month. In the world of $1500 to $2000 flagships, none of this is good. And now the latest news out of both Samsung and Google could make all that worse — much worse.
Samsung’s One UI 7 delay has been described as a “disaster” for the company. But as it finally rolls out, the PR around a much faster Android 16 and One UI 8 schedule had seemed to signal a recovery. But now another setback. Per specialist SamMobile: Samsung’s “One UI 7 release timeline for multiple devices [is]
not good news,” and “what we feared has come true: only flagship devices launched in the last two years will get the update in April. Other devices will get the update in May and June.”
