Samsung is playing an impossible game of catch-up with Pixel and iPhone. It’s four months since Pixels upgraded to Android 16, and since then Apple has upgraded all iPhones to iOS 26. Meanwhile, ...

Google has released one major version of Android each year since 2012, but the release of Android 16 introduced a change with two updates. Google released Android 16 in June, and Samsung followed with ...

Distribution of One UI 8 to the Galaxy S23 series has reportedly paused weeks after it first began. The S23 follows the S22 and S24 in having a bumpy One UI 8 rollout. Samsung hasn’t shared when we ...

Android operating systems in 2025 are what individual phone brands make of them. Android 16 is publicly available as part of the Android Open Source Project, but it’s barebones, and brands like Google ...

Samsung has been working on One UI 8.5 for the past few months. It’s still based on Android 16 but uses a newer QPR2 development build, allowing Samsung to include deeper system-level features that ...

Samsung debuted One UI 8 on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 in July, while the official rollout began in September, starting with the Galaxy S25 series. The Android 16-based update has since ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the weekend news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade with multiple publications, including the likes of Times Internet, ...