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It’s not excellent news for hundreds of thousands of Samsung Galaxy customers
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Up to date on September 26 with new replace suggesting Samsung’s One UI 7 Beta is making ready for launch and the deadline for its account requirement expiring.
At the same time as Samsung flagship units fly from cabinets, there’s unhealthy information coming for million of Galaxy homeowners who’ve paid considerably greater than $1000 for a modern, best smartphone. And with the launches of Apple’s iPhone 16 and Google’s Pixel 9, there’s little room for errors with competitors fiercer than we’ve seen earlier than.
Sadly for Samsung and its Galaxy customers, the Korean big’s largest problem seems once more to have taken a chunk out of its providing. In contrast to Apple, which controls the total iPhone {hardware} and software program mixture, Samsung must work inside Google’s complicated Android ecosystem which causes fixed delays. And whereas that impacts new options, it additionally hits safety and privateness, which is Apple’s candy spot.
Safety delayed is safety denied, which is unhealthy information given the large advances that Android 15 will convey to Samsung and the shocking wait to get them. As 9to5Google warns, “Samsung nonetheless doesn’t know when the primary One UI 7 beta with Android 15 will probably be launched… Samsung was alleged to launch its first One UI 7 beta replace over a month in the past, but it surely’s been delayed indefinitely and, apparently, the corporate has no agency plans for when its first take a look at Android 15 will really arrive.”
Will probably be a supply of comprehensible frustration that simply as Samsung appears in a state of flux as to when its personal Android 15 launch will see daylight, Pixel customers are being instructed they may get the widely obtainable replace as early as October 15. “Google pushed Android 15 to AOSP again on September 3,” Android Headlines has mentioned, “however the replace shouldn’t be scheduled for Pixel units till October. We are actually capable of share precisely when that replace will probably be obtainable–that’s October 15.”
And whereas at present it seems just like the One UI 7 beta could lastly be close to, there’s no affirmation and definitely no phrase on an precise launch date. From a safety standpoint, any delays to the rollout of an OS replace that features a vary of essential safety updates, together with theft safety, partial display screen sharing. enhanced WiFi safety, and rip-off defenses appears a mistake. However Samsung’s replace choices look more likely to trigger way more severe alarm for Galaxy customers.
Two of the perfect safety updates coming with Android 15 could not come to Galaxy anytime quickly. The first is cellular defense, which warns customers when an actual or probably rogue community is repeatedly pinging their gadget for {hardware} and SIM identities, which could be a prelude to an assault or interception, and equally it defends in opposition to a cellphone being knocked right down to a much less encrypted—once more usually rogue—community.
This replace requires collaboration between modem and gadget, and is an space the place Samsung has determined to not play earlier than. Google has also warned users to completely disable 2G for the same reason, however as SammyGuru warns, “Sadly, Samsung units don’t supply this perform in globally—the choice is accessible in some nations. Flagship fashions just like the Galaxy S24 Extremely additionally lack this elementary software. The gadget will be compelled to 2G-only mode however you can’t disable 2G.”
On this, EFF has criticized Samsung for “not taking any steps to incorporate the 2G toggle from vanilla Android… failures to behave [that] counsel Samsung considers its customers’ safety and privateness to be an afterthought. These involved with the safety and privateness of their cell units ought to strongly think about using different {hardware}.”
The second key replace is Google’s stay risk detection, which makes use of on-device AI to scan to flag apps that could be behaving badly to allow a consumer to close them down forward of any extra common Play Defend motion is taken. When saying this crucial replace throughout Could’s I/O occasion, Google said that “Pixel, Honor, Lenovo, Nothing, OnePlus, Oppo, Sharp, Transsion, and different producers are deploying stay risk detection later this 12 months.” Samsung was not talked about at the moment.
Whether or not or not Samsung’s Android 15 contains all options, customers will need it as quickly as doable. However SamMobile has added its personal warning relating to the timing of the Android 15 beta, by no means thoughts the precise launch. Albeit an replace at present means that the beta is being teased and might arrive quickly. All hints and maybes, although.
In an replace it says “is not pleasing,” SamMobile says that “final 12 months Samsung rolled out Android 14-based One UI 6.0 Beta proper earlier than SDC23… the model ought to have launched One UI 7.0 Beta by now because the SDC24 is just a few days away (begins on 3 October 2024). Nevertheless, we don’t have any signal of the brand new replace.”
Samsung shouldn’t be standing nonetheless and is taking its personal steps to raised defend Galaxy customers, together with defaulting to most protections, making sideloading as troublesome as doable, and enhancing security across its ecosystem. However customers will rightly anticipate the total suite of Android defenses as properly. I’ve approached Samsung to ask about stay risk detection, mobile protection, 2G disabling and the timing of Android 15.
In the meantime, for hundreds of thousands of customers it stays a case of wait and see, albeit we we have now now seen one other tease that implies Samsung’s One UI 7 Beta may certainly be imminent, with one consumer posting on X on September 26 that “Samsung is making ready for Android 15, as they’ve added help to the Members, Knox, and Wonderland apps. Might this imply the One UI 7 beta is simply across the nook?”
Value a fast reminder then which Samsung units are probably eligible for the improve. As collated by SammyFans, the record is probably going as follows:
Galaxy S Android 15 Replace Listing
Galaxy S21
Galaxy S21+
Galaxy S21 Extremely
Galaxy S21 FE
Galaxy S22
Galaxy S22+
Galaxy S22 Extremely
Galaxy S23
Galaxy S23+
Galaxy S23 Extremely
Galaxy S23 FE
Galaxy S24
Galaxy S24+
Galaxy S24 Extremely
Galaxy Z Android 15 Replace Listing
Galaxy Z Flip 3
Galaxy Z Flip 4
Galaxy Z Flip 5
Galaxy Z Fold 3
Galaxy Z Fold 4
Galaxy Z Fold 5
Galaxy Z Fold 6
Galaxy Z Flip 6
Galaxy Tab Android 15 Replace Listing
Galaxy Tab A9 / A9+
Galaxy Tab Energetic 4 Professional
Galaxy Tab S8 / S8+ / Tab S8 Extremely
Galaxy Tab S9 / S9+ / S9 Extremely
Galaxy Tab S9 FE / S9 FE+
Galaxy A/M/F Android 15 Replace Listing
Galaxy A06
Galaxy A05s / A15 / A25 /A35 /A55
Galaxy A14 / A24 / A34 / A54
Galaxy A33 / A53 / A73
Galaxy M14 / F14
Galaxy M34 / M54 / F54
Galaxy M35 /M55 / F55
No affirmation but on timelines, or what performance and options will make it into the beta or full launch. All we do know is that Samsung is monitoring behind Pixel and from the knowledge given to this point, some key safety features are probably lacking.
In the meantime, there’s one other replace downside that you could be encounter as you anticipate the beta or full launch of One UI & to hit your gadget, one which has slipped the discover of most customers however which has now come into impact.
The deadline has simply handed for Samsung customers (who haven’t already finished so) to create a Samsung account to allow downloads from Galaxy retailer to put in. Numerous retailers have picked up on the change in coverage, advising customers with out Samsung accounts to rectify that to make sure that no updates or installs get caught out.
As Phone Arena warns, “Even when Galaxy Retailer shouldn’t be the place you often get your apps, you will most likely nonetheless have to create a Samsung account in the end, in any other case, a number of the apps you have already got in your cellphone could cease getting updates.”
The positioning goes on to elucidate that “for the time being, the Galaxy Retailer app works because it did earlier than the requirement was imposed if you find yourself merely looking it and, for me, it additionally began the obtain course of after I wasn’t logged in, however, for finishing the set up course of, it’s essential to log in to a Samsung account.”
In the meantime, 9to5Google warns that “Galaxy Retailer now requires a Samsung account, however doesn’t let you know till it’s too late… It’s not till you really go to obtain an app {that a} pop-up requires you to register, and there’s no approach to skip. A hyperlink for ‘Forgot password or don’t have an account?’ simply prompts you to create an account, relatively than letting you skip… The identical applies to app updates. Even when you’ve got pending app updates for system apps, they received’t undergo until you register. Actually, you possibly can’t even see obtainable updates with out signing in.”
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