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Information Weekly is our column the place we spotlight and summarize a number of the week’s high tales so you may atone for the most recent tech information.
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This week, Samsung dropped an surprising shock for Galaxy S25 customers, Galaxy Watch 8 collection allegedly clears one other certification, Nothing kills its Glyph lights on its subsequent flagship, OnePlus sneaks in two new cellphone on the Ace 5 collection, and Pixel 10 Professional leak particulars a well-known design. Let’s dive in!
Galaxy S25 customers get the primary style of One UI 8
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Galaxy S25 customers have been in for a shock drop this week, as Samsung determined to provide its newest flagship telephones an surprising replace.
In a prolonged weblog put up, Samsung introduced that it is kicking off One UI 8’s first beta this week for Galaxy S25, S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Extremely, which shipped with One UI 7 out of the field early this yr. One UI 8 brings all of Android 16‘s perks to the Galaxy S25 for the primary time, and beta-enrolled customers check out new options earlier than they’re publicly launched.
To start out, Samsung’s AI Choose device is now sooner than ever. In response to Android Central’s Nick Sutrich in his One UI 8 beta hands-on, it takes roughly 2.2 seconds to look one thing up. One UI 8 additionally takes multitasking to the subsequent degree, with this 90:10 function, which helps you to resize a break up window all the way down to 10% of its regular measurement, serving to customers swap between two apps with a single faucet with out feeling just like the app is crammed when the display screen is break up.
Samsung’s Climate app, Reminder, Well being, and Auracast additionally get main glow-ups with this new replace. Moreover, Samsung additionally confirmed that its next-gen foldables telephones will launch later this yr with a secure model of One UI 8.
For extra information and knowledge on Samsung’s upcoming foldables, take a look at our Final Information.
Galaxy Watch 8 collection allegedly clears one other certification
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We is likely to be simply mere weeks away from the subsequent Unpacked occasion, and it has been raining leaks.
The newest one comes from people at Xpert Decide who declare to have noticed each watches from the Galaxy Watch 8 collection move via the CMIIT certification (Chinese language Ministry of Business and Info Expertise).
As we will see within the screenshot, each certificates point out mannequin numbers connected to the alleged upcoming wearables, SM-L3350 and SM-L5050, respectively. Earlier leaks have indicated that these mannequin numbers appear to be related to the Galaxy Watch 8 (LTE) and the Watch 8 Traditional (LTE).
The certification notes throughout the screenshot describe each these gadgets to have eSIM know-how with an unbiased eUICC chip, which is able to enable customers to connect with mobile networks with out the cellphone, which is what the earlier leaks have been indicating as nicely.
Nothing is giving up its Glyph lights
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Nothing has been dropping a number of hints on X about its upcoming flagship Nothing Cellphone 3. In its most up-to-date put up, it steered that its subsequent flagship won’t have the signature Glyph Mild interface on the rear panel, which has been featured on earlier fashions.
In an virtually easy put up, the corporate introduced the top of the Glyph Interface in an X video, captioned “we killed the Glyph Interface,” the place the Cellphone 1‘s lights dramatically blink out to black.
This might probably imply that its subsequent flagship gadget, Nothing Cellphone 3 could not present up with these rear mild, a function that drew a number of folks to purchase the Nothing telephones within the first place.
That stated, if the corporate takes away the one factor that units it aside, what would its rear panel truly appear like? Some speculate that the cellphone might include a dot-matrix show on the again. The teasers of Cellphone 3 had movies with the identical dot-matrix sample, displaying a pixelated “3” or Pac-Man-style animations with dots, majorly hinting at a change in visible design.
OnePlus snuck in two new telephones on the Ace 5 collection
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OnePlus has simply launched two new telephones: the OnePlus Ace 5 Extremely Version and the Ace 5 Racing Version.
Designed with gaming fanatics in thoughts, these telephones mix glossy design, highly effective {hardware}, and spectacular battery life for an “final gaming expertise.” The telephones are designed to steadiness equally in each palms, lowering hand fatigue throughout intense gaming classes.
On the core, each gadgets are powered an “Esports triple chip,” comprising the MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus chipset, the Lingxi touch-control chip, and the gaming-focused G1 Wi-Fi chip. Each gadgets sport the identical 50MP main lens and a 16MP entrance digicam, with different elements setting them aside.
The OnePlus Ace 5 Extremely and Racing Version come filled with Android 15 and Shade OS out of the field. Each gadgets are available three colorways, beginning at roughly $346.88 and $249.71, respectively.
Pixel 10 collection colorways could have leaked
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Leaks are pouring in about Google’s upcoming Pixel collection, and the newest one speculates on the potential colorways of the gadget.
MysticLeaks on Telegram claims there is likely to be 4 choices out there through the Pixel 10 collection launch. The tipster states that the usual Pixel 10 might arrive in 4 colours: Obsidian, blue, Iris (purple), and Limoncello (yellow). This coloration array is barely completely different than the Pixel 9’s Peony (pink), Wintergreen (minty inexperienced), Porcelain (white), and Obsidian. The Pixel 10 Professional and 10 Professional XL might present up in Obsidian, Inexperienced, Sterling (gray), and Porcelain (white).
Moreover, we could have gotten a glimpse of the Pixel 10 Professional whereas it was being filmed for a industrial.
The leak comes from a photographer, Mark Teasdale, on X (by way of DroidLife), who noticed the cellphone being filmed with a person holding the alleged Pixel 10 Professional, going by the pictures. The put up on X, nevertheless, has now been taken down, for unknown causes.
Extra tales this week
These are a number of the greatest tales from this week. In the meantime, listed here are another tales which are value catching up on: