Samsung says it will be even faster rolling out Android 14 next year

On Nov 19, 2022

Samsung is on a mission. It says that it will push out Android 14 faster than it disseminated Android 13 this year. Google’s own Pixel phones are still the gold standard when it comes to getting the newest Android build ahead of the pack. But Samsung’s Android 13/One UI 5.0 update did deliver the latest Unicode 15 emoji to Galaxy owners before Pixel users.

Samsung has bragged about how fast it was able to get Android13/One UI 5.0 pushed out this year and while it has already updated its higher-end phones and even the Galaxy Tab S8 tablet line, by the end of the year Samsung says that devices like the Galaxy Tab S7 and Tab S6 Lite will also be running Android 13/One UI 5.0.

In a press release, Samsung said that this year’s update “drastically reduced the time interval” between the release of Android 13 and the “deployment” of One UI 5.0. Samsung said that it took only two months for Samsung to push Android 13 to its customers. Believe it or not, that is considered a big improvement since outside of Google’s own Pixel devices, it can take several months for Android phones to receive the latest build of the operating system.

As you might expect, the Galaxy S22 series was the first Samsung line to receive Android 13/One UI 5.0

The two months were the fastest for any Android phone manufacturer (again, excluding Google) and show what a great job Samsung has done. Phones like the Google Pixel line and the Apple iPhone are able to receive updates fast since the same company that designs the phones also makes the software (Android and iOS, respectively). In fact, it is the large number of different Android manufacturers that gave the platform its reputation for being fragmented.

When Google used to release the distribution numbers for Android each month, the most recently released version would never have a large percentage of installs. That was due to fragmentation. For example, just before the release of Android 13, Android 11 was on the most handsets (27%) and was on more than twice the number of phones running Android 12.

Part of the reason why Samsung was able to step up the pace of its Android 13 updates is because of its close partnership with Google. Samsung even makes note of this in its press release when it said, “Samsung Electronics will continue to strengthen cooperation with Google and actively listen to user feedback to continue to update One UI faster and with higher perfection.”

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