Mobile news moves fast — maybe not Apple A-series fast, but at least Google Tensor fast — and if you aren't following closely, you'll start to feel left out in no time. But we keep our ears to the ground and our eyes peeled on all things Android, so we'd be doing you a disservice if we didn't recap the week in mobile. Here are five of the biggest stories you might have missed.
One UI 7 is so close, yet so far away
With the Galaxy S25 finally hitting store shelves on Friday (though technically some people got it a bit earlier through preorders), One UI 7 is now officially available. So far, it's been one of the biggest positives mentioned by reviewers, so Samsung seems to have knocked it out of the park here, except the beta program hasn't progressed as many had hoped.
Samsung's Android 15-based update has been available in beta on the Galaxy S24 series since the first week of December, but not for older flagships or even the latest foldables. We were hoping for a stable One UI 7 update alongside the new phones, but instead, we got another beta build to fix a few bugs at the end of the week. This doesn't bode well for widespread availability, but Samsung could still surprise us — until then, we'll have to keep waiting for things like a more usable battery saver mode and the iOS-inspired Now Bar.
