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As previously speculated, One UI 6 brings really big visual changes that have affected practically the entire system, which is more focused on transparency and is much more similar to the Chinese competition. We’re also getting new widgets, a very nice new font across the entire superstructure, and in the future we’re also getting revamped animations. The beta is currently full of bugs, broken apps, and the like, but it’s also only for Galaxy S23 phones in the US, Germany, and South Korea so far.
First, Samsung accidentally published a web page inviting the One UI 6 beta for a few hours. Then the individual branches did not agree and the beta was announced in the US earlier than elsewhere, even though it had not yet been launched. Today, however, we finally have the first beta of One UI 6 after all the trouble out there. So far, it has only been released in the US, Germany and South Korea for the Galaxy S23 series phones.
And it’s a really big update that significantly changes the visual elements of the superstructure. Above all, Samsung bets much more on transparency. We have a new control center that is divided into major and minor categories and looks a bit like a hybrid of HarmonyOS and ColorOS. Or even MIUI. You can definitely see that Samsung is going even more with the Chinese superstructure style.
However, the focus on making even a larger phone easier to control with one hand is apparently almost completely gone. The icons, Settings, some parts of the applications have also received visual changes, we have new widgets for the camera, for example, and everything is described in a new font. And although I’m not personally a fan of transparency in this style, so I wasn’t completely impressed by the new center, I think the font is really nice and very easy to read. And the more pure Android style media playback controls look much better than before, in my opinion.
In any case, there are a lot of changes and also a lot of bugs, broken animations and such. It’s a slightly rougher beta, so installation is possibly really “at your own risk”. Samsung already promises that the second version of the beta will bring a lot of fixes, and especially the manufacturer will work on animations. After all, in the final version of the superstructure they are to be completely redesigned and much smoother than before. So let’s give the manufacturer time and hope that the stable version will actually be released for flagships in late September or early October, as previously speculated.
2023-08-11 12:48:05
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