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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back
everybody.
This is episode number 23 ofthe Sammy Guru podcast.
My name is Jeff Springer.
With me, as always, my co-host,Tori.
Tori say hi, hey, how's itgoing?
And today it's finally here,the day that we've all been
waiting for has finally come.
It is time for the One UI 7.0beta.
All it took was us taking aweek off.
We went away for the holidaysand Samsung's like oh, they're
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serious about it, even thoughit's just Thanksgiving.
They were like these guys areserious, they're not going to
talk about it anymore until werelease it.
And so they did.
Thursday morning, 6 am Arizonatime, 8 o'clock Eastern time
here in the US, the beta wasrolled out.
We already knew about it onWednesday night because a bunch
of people had leaked it.
Some people from Samsungsupport had said that it was
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going to be essentially beta wasgoing to roll out on Thursday.
So we already knew.
I've been running it prettymuch nonstop.
I've been doing nothing butmaking beta videos and articles
and Tori today will give us someof his impressions from someone
who hasn't seen it yet becauseI've just been sleeping it.
My wife was like last night thatI was mumbling about change
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logs and such and I was likewell, I guess that's certainly
possible, I could have beendoing that, but how was your
week otherwise story?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I mean, overall, a
week was good.
Uh, we're kind of just windingdown, uh everything and so, um,
you know, a little bit tired onthat front.
But I mean it'll be so greatonce I'm done and I would just
kind of rest for the break forsure.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, it's always
nice at the end of the semester
when you're teaching, just kindof getting ready to go and have
that break and you know that,yeah, good relaxing time.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
It is much needed.
How about you, jeff?
You always ask me how about you?
How's your?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'm doing pretty mean
, luckily, even though I'm not
teaching anymore because thebeta Samsung was so kind to drop
it this week once I finish thecoverage over the next week or
so, I should be able to take off, you know, a couple of weeks
over the holidays where I don'thave to do a crazy amount of
work.
Then I'll be going to CES onJanuary 5th, so we're looking
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forward to that.
It's very possible, though,that I could have to do some
reservations for the launch,because, as we've heard, samsung
might launch the S25 series onJanuary 22nd, and if they did
that, then I'd have to do somework at CES.
It would be nice if they pushedit back.
It would be nice if they did.
So.
Maybe if someone's listening tothis podcast at Samsung who has
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some power, you guys could pushit back.
I'm thinking like a coupleweeks.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Because then I don't
have to do any work at CES.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I know that would
make your life a whole lot
easier.
I just think that if they didthat, it would probably be only
because they care about mypersonal well-being and
emotional well-being.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I mean, like, think abouthow much you've done for them
since you started this podcastexactly and think about how much
we've done for them since westarted the website, the youtube
channel, the podcast, all of it, the mystery boxes.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I mean, they probably
just want to give me a chance
to enjoy my trip to vegas.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
So if anyone's
listening to that.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
just go ahead and
move it back a couple weeks, not
too late.
We don't want it in March oranything like that that's too
late.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Keep it in February,
early February.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Early February would
be the ideal time for us to have
that.
But, like I said, all thereputable leakers out there have
said January 22nd, so probablynot looking good for me.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Otherwise it's a new
year.
It is a new year.
I never know.
I could get my wish.
It's possible, it could be myChristmas wish.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So, maybe Samsung
will unwrap a Christmas wish
just for me Also.
Alabama looks like they mightsneak into the playoff.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yes, it does, and
some people are very upset about
it because they're like thisteam has lost three games.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
How can you guys
still let Alabama in the playoff
?
I'm just like, hey, whatever,if you're going to let us in, I
mean I don't think we deserve tobe there.
But people should probably be alittle worried because this
team is super bipolar.
Sometimes they play reallygreat, sometimes they play
really bad.
You know, if they go on astreak of their bipolar where
they just play really good forfour games, they could win a
national championship.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And they could get
knocked out in the first round.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
So if anyone asks me
what's going to happen, I have
no idea they could play awfuland lose by seven touchdowns in
the first round, or they couldbeat every team by five
touchdowns and sweep it and winthe national title.
This team I have no idea whothey are I mean they destroyed
LSU at home, destroyed Georgiaand they lost Oklahoma by three
touchdowns.
They lost to Vanderbilt.
I mean I don't know.
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I don't know what's up withthis team.
This is one of the mostunpredictable Alabama teams I've
ever seen.
So I think, partially becauseof the Saban leaving and the
transition of the new leadership, they're getting used to the
new leadership and so thatprobably created some
instability.
I'm not saying Devor's a badcoach and obviously if the
committee is so kind to leave usin the playoff, I don't think
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he'll lose his job, so it'sprobably good for him.
I guess, He'll be very happy.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
He'll survive this
round.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, he'll be very
happy that they snuck him into
the playoff, even though hedidn't get into the SEC title
Plus, he won the Iron Bowl.
So it wasn't pretty, but he did.
So let's get into 1UI7.
What I have is I have the phonehere with it and I thought what
would be super fun.
I so, first of all, I'vealready went through all the new
features.
I'm going to go through a bunchof them in the podcast today,
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obviously, but what I'm going todo cause I think it'll be more
interesting is I'm going to showTori some of the new features.
Obviously, he's running one UIsix, dot one and his S22 Ultra,
and he can tell me what hethinks about these features, if
it's something he likes ordislikes, and then I, of course,
will go through some.
But if you want to see everysingle feature and you just want
a nonstop barrage of everythingfrom the changelog, I made a
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45-minute long YouTube videoyesterday which took me four
hours to shoot, an additionaltwo hours to edit, and right now
it only has 12,000 views.
That kind of makes me angry.
So hopefully people will watchit.
It's because there's so muchsaturation, so many people make
One UI 7 videos.
It's hard to get 100,000 views,but I cover Samsung every day,
so I feel like I deserve those100,000 views.
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So go watch that video.
Maybe it'll get pushed more inthe algorithm.
We can get views, but todaywe're going to get some real
user impressions.
So, first story, let's startwith the very first thing.
We talked about this back whenOne UI 7 was first rumored.
One UI 7 now separates yournotifications from your quick
settings.
So you have to swipe on theleft side to get notifications
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and swipe on the right to getyour quick settings.
Now you can have your own phonethere and look at that if you
want to see the difference Onyour phone.
You know the quick settings areat the top right.
They're above the notificationsand they're all combined into
one panel.
Now the one thing about this is, even though they're separate,
you can swipe to the right toget to them yeah.
You can swipe over and get tothem swipe to the left, rather
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and get from the notificationsto the quick panel.
But what do you think aboutthis change in general?
Because this is the defaultGood news.
If you don't like it, you canchange it back.
The easy way to change it backis to go to the quick settings
there's a little pencil iconpanel settings and then go to
notification and quick settingsview.
You can change them back towhere they're together instead
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of separate, but the separate isthe default.
So this is obviously whatSamsung thinks is the best and
what they like.
What do you think about?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
it Okay.
At first I was like I don'tknow how I like it Just because
having to reach over.
You know if I'm trying to dosomething one handedhanded.
I had to reach over to pulldown my notifications, versus
the settings or the quicksettings, uh.
But I do like the ability toswipe back and forth in between
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instead of having to just pulldown.
Um now, what is it like?
Or have you had it to where youhad a lot of notifications
going down?
How does that kind of affectyour swiping?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
If the notifications
go all the way down, then what
happens with the swipe isbasically yeah, it can be a
little tricky.
I know what you're saying.
You're saying if thenotification tiles, if you have
a bunch of them, then you needto swipe.
These will just get clusteredtogether.
They won't go all the way downhere.
So it won't interfere in thatsense, as long as you're swiping
down here, because, like if youhave a bunch of them, like you
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see how I have 12 Twitternotifications, it gives you like
a bundle and it shows you the12.
So, like if you have a bunch Imean theoretically, I guess if
you had, if you don't ever clearyour notifications and but yeah
, it could be a problem with theswiping, I understand, but I
mean, if you can't swipe, Iguess you can always go over
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there.
But it is much more convenientif you just have a few
notifications, because you canswipe over to get to the quick
settings.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Well, you know,
actually I like that better
because, like currently, rightlike during the day as I'm
teaching, I'm not really on myphone at all.
So when I get to my phone it'sa lot of notifications and to
just kind of like have to scrollthrough, to like look through
all my notifications, that's alot.
So I really do like thebundling.
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The bundling is really nice.
Yes, I like that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Bundling these by
default.
I think it makes it way nicerto kind of see your
notifications.
The other thing you can seehere is you can see like it's
got this nice in thenotifications and quick panel,
this nice blur on the backgroundwhich looks way.
I mean, I'm using amulticolored wallpaper to kind
of accent the blur, but the bluris a lot nicer than it is on
One UI 6.1.
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If you look in the quick panel,you also have these toggles.
You can move around now.
We talked about this when Icame back from SDC, so you can
now move where the toggles go.
So if you want your mediaplayer at the top, you can move
it right there.
Oh, I love that.
And then here the quick togglesyou can edit them and they now
expand just by swiping down.
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So if you go in here and you goto your quick panel, instead of
having to like swipe left toright, you just pull this down
and you get all your quicksettings.
So now all your quick settingsare just right there now.
One complaint that I've heardfrom some enthusiasts on x is
that they don't like thisbecause because if you have a
lot of quick setting tilesenabled, what this does is when
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you swipe down to expand them,they fall off the page it's like
some of them you can't see andthen also that makes it kind of
difficult to you know, collapsethem because you have to scroll
down, yeah, to go back to here,what this little light thing is
right here, this icon, toactually collapse the
notifications.
And I do agree, I actuallyreported that as somewhat of a
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usability issue in the betaBecause, of course, as you know,
when you're doing the beta test, samsung gives you access to
report feedback to them for thebeta.
That's kind of the whole pointof doing a software beta, so I
did, don't you think that's kindof clunky?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I think so too.
I don't want anything where Ineed to slide a lot to find
something that I'm looking.
I mean I think it's better thangoing left to right, but
they've got to have another way.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I mean, I don't mind
too much the icons for the quick
settings falling off the page,but I don't really want to have
to go down here and thencollapse them using this you
know, tap the button, because ifI have too many, I didn't have
to scroll down and tap there hasto be a like.
maybe there's a button at thetop.
Maybe the button is at the topfor you to collapse it, because
there's no reason we couldn'thave this button at the top of
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the quick settings and thencollapse it.
That way, I think it would bebetter.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, I see too.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
But I do like the
editability of all these quick
toggles.
It's really nice to have that.
They did add some new quicktoggles as well.
One of them is a littlecontroversial because they
removed it elsewhere.
You have a finder quick togglenow and finder what it does is
it lets you basically searchanything on your phone.
That used to be enabled in theapp screen.
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The recent app screen up hereat the top is gone now from
there.
So if you want it you need toput it in your quick settings.
There used to be a littlebutton.
If you go into your recent appsyou'll see there's a little uh
magnifying glass there forsearch.
You see it.
That's your finder quicksettings let you search anything
on your phone.
It's gone now.
They did completely redesignthe recent apps menu.
What do you think about theredesign recent apps menu here?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
you can see it's
different yeah than the default,
different, like I do, like thefor me it's the.
I like to use the search forapps, like I don't know if this
is still in there and obviouslywe'll get to it, but this is
really a lifesaver, the littlesearch bar in the App Store.
But honestly, looking at that,that is a lot better and
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smoother than what I'm used to,right, because then I have to
kind of like surf through allthe tabs.
Yeah, this one seems like anicer presentation, a nicer.
Yeah, this one you can see it's.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It's light has a nice
depth effect to it.
Gradient blur is still thereyou got your active apps here in
the top.
Uh, here you can also getdirectly into your settings.
Uh, you can show therecommended apps or not?
I know some people arecommenting in my video.
They don't like having therecommended apps at the bottom.
So if you don't like thoserecommended apps at the bottom,
you you can go into settingshere and remove recommended apps
and then it looks a littlecleaner.
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So it actually looks a littlebit cleaner.
If you don't want thoserecommended apps, I kind of like
the recommended apps, butcertainly if you remove them
it's a little bit cleaner.
Look, but I think they did agreat job with the recent apps
menu.
I do think they I mean, I don'tknow they could add the option
in settings to put the Findersearch back, because I think
some people like having that inthe recent apps.
I know, like you said, sometimesyou use the Finder to search
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and we will get to that.
In fact, might as well.
Why not?
We'll go into it now,transitioning.
Guess what?
This is mainly going to be asoftware tour, so I'm sure we'll
jump around here and there as Ifind stuff that catches our
attention.
This right here is the new appdrawer.
It's vertical now.
You remember how everyone'sbeen asking us about the
vertical app drawer.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yes, everyone's been
asking for a vertical, well
guess, what?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
When is the vertical
app drawer coming back?
It's coming, it's already backon the beta and it will be back
on your phone with One UI 7,probably in February 2025.
But it's here and you don'tneed good luck to get it, so no
more needing to install home upin order to get vertical app
drawer.
This is the default setting onyour galaxy smartphone now.
Um so a couple of things.
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It looks great in my opinion,but I've always been a vertical
app drawer guy.
There's a very weird secured bynox text at the bottom.
I don't know why the heck thatis in the app drawer.
Well, this is.
This is not a pg show.
It's why in the hell is that in?
I don't know why the heck thatis in the app drawer.
Well, this is not a PG show.
Why in the hell is that in theapp?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
drawer?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I don't know why the
hell it's not in the app, why
this is in the app drawer, whydoes it say secured by Knox?
I don't know why they put thatthere.
Knox is Samsung's securitysuite for encryption and stuff
on your phone, and One UI 7 doeshave some new Knox features
like Knox matrix, but it's aweird place to put it in the app
drawer.
It's very, it's very strange.
And then for the search thesearch bars at the bottom of the
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vertical app drawer.
Some people don't like that.
What do you think?
I like it because it makes itmore one handed, but it is a lot
different.
So if you have muscle memory,it's going to be confusing in
the beginning.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, I think I have
most of the memory.
I actually really do like thesearch bar being at the very top
, but I also do like thevertical draw versus, you know,
the flipping horizontally to getto where I need, which is why I
think I gravitate so much tothe search bar.
So have you found navigatingand getting to the apps quicker
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this way than the way you did?
Sure, certainly, for me?
Speaker 1 (15:04):
yeah, because,
because I mean certainly when
just swiping, but if I need tosearch for something, it's also
easy just to tap this and getthe search on the bottom once
you get used to it, because ofcourse you know I'm used to
having the search at the top aswell, because I've been using
one ui 6.1 forever since it cameout and you know before that
the search bar has always beenat the top in previous versions
of one ui.
Now someone will probably askcan you get back the horizontal
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if you want?
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yes, but it's very
confusing as to what you need to
do to get that.
This is a beta.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Keep in mind, these
are not guaranteed to be the
final version of one UI seven,because betas have bugs and even
though they took four monthsdelay to push this out it's it
still has some bugs.
So if you go to the three dotsmenu on the search bar and you
tap sort, if you change it fromalphabetical to custom, it moves
this to now being thehorizontal, but it leaves all
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this dead space, and the deadspace is because these are no
longer alphabetically sorted.
Now you can go to clean uppages and it will clean up the
pages so that there's no longerempty space, but this doesn't
put it anymore into alphabeticalorder either.
Pages, and it will clean up thepages so that there's no longer
empty space.
Yeah, but this doesn't put itanymore into alphabetical order
either.
You still have the most recentapps on the last page and your
oldest apps at the beginning.
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I hate this because obviously Ialways use alphabetical.
So I think it really stinksthat if people want the
horizontal app drawer I don't,but if someone does, why should
you have to use custom order?
Why can't you use alphabeticalorder to get the horizontal app
drawer?
I don't, but if someone does,why should you have to use
custom order.
Why can't you use alphabeticalorder to get the horizontal app
drawer?
That seems like we're beingdiscriminatory against people
who like the horizontal appdrawer Because, as we all know,
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everyone knows, alphabeticalorder is the correct way to
organize your apps.
I don't know who does it bycustom, probably serial killers.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Probably serial
murderers.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And some other types
of people do it, but not regular
people don't organize theirapps by recently installed Well,
probably my mother too.
She's not a serial killer, butthat used to be the default and
she never changes her settings,so you know um.
So yeah, you need to change itto that in order to get your um
horizontal drawer back, if youwant it.
I don't think a lot of peopledo, but maybe you do.
And if you do, there you go.
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Let's move on to the next piecehere, which is the settings here
for the app drawer and the homescreen.
So if you go into the homescreen settings which if you go
from the app drawer and you goto the search, go to settings
that's going to take you to homescreen settings.
Let's take a quick tour.
A lot of the stuff here is thesame as when you have 6.1.1, but
because the app screen is nowvertical, you can change the
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number of columns.
You can either do four columns,which is the default.
I went and changed it to fivebecause I like a little more
information I think I like thefive too but I mean honestly,
four isn't bad because, sinceit's vertical, it really doesn't
take that long to scrollthrough.
But me personally, I still liketo have to scroll less, and so
if I have five columns I don'tneed to scroll as far.
Um, so that's what I decided todo, is I went with the five
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columns there.
Um, the other settings hereinside the home screen not a lot
of things new, except onereally big thing, and that's the
app and widget style.
Admin widget style now lets youchange the size of your icons
on your home screen and appscreen.
Uh, you have three optionssmall, medium and large.
So I have on medium.
Right now you see the medium,one story, yep.
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And then if you go and changeit, let's change it to the small
.
Check out the small ones.
There they are, they're tiny,they're so cute, Too small.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Too small for you.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Tori Too small, way
too small.
Too small, too small for you.
Tori Too small, way too small.
And then, if you go to thelarge ones, these kind of look
like icons your grandmothermight use.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
But they're not too
bad actually.
Yeah, no, actually the large isnot that too bad at all.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Garishly large I love
that word.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It's a great word.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
We're going for the
spelling bee today.
Actually, we're teaching anEnglish class while we're doing
this.
Samsung podcast.
But while we're, doing thisSamsung podcast.
But I mean to be honest, thelarge setting isn't bad, but I
still prefer the middle setting,so that's what I kept it on.
You can also now change thelabels that appear on your home
screen app labels and widgetlabels.
So with app labels, it'll tellyou what the app name is below
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it, which has always been kindof the case.
Widget labels is new.
You can now show names for thewidgets from samsung and google.
So if you have like samsungcalendar widgets, you have these
two widgets for calendar.
It's just calendar above thebelow the widgets.
I don't really like that.
I turned this on just so that Icould demonstrate it in my
video yesterday, but now thatI'm seeing it I'm like I don't
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really like that for the widgetswhat do you think?
about it on the widgets, I thinkI mean for the apps, I'm okay
with it, I don't mind it so much, but I don't really like it for
the widgets.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I mean honestly and
that's what I think I was kind
of alluding to a little bitearlier is I mean this whole
package kind of seems likesomething that I would get out
of like a brand new phone onopening day, and so I really
like the appeal of that.
With this update it's polishedright.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
No, it's very
polished, it's very sleek.
You can see the animations aresmooth.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
No, it's very smooth
For a first beta, like it's
buttery smooth.
I know people are reallyenthusiastic about animations
and we'll talk a little bitabout it more.
Probably next week we're goingto go in on this too.
There's so much to do with OneUI 7.
I don't think we can fit itinto a single episode Because me
and Tori you know it's Fridaynight we can't be until 10
o'clock at night.
I mean, I've already beentalking about One UI 7 for 36
hours, but it's super smooth sofar, and so I don't know what do
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you think you would use, though?
Would you turn the widgetlabels on the icon labels on or
off?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
What do reference on
the size of the?
Okay, so for me, um, I reallylike the medium uh size apps.
I thought those were perfect.
Um, again, like all of it justkind of feels like really nice
out of the box.
So even if, like, I initiallyhad the widgets, um, I think I
would honestly use them.
Uh, I mean, so far I like whatI've seen overall.
But I will add this it doesseem like, for the most part, if
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I wanted to, or if anyonewanted to, go back and change it
back to default it doesn't looklike I need to navigate a whole
lot of menus, which is what Ican appreciate.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
No, they've changed a
lot of the user friendliness of
changing some of these options,especially in the home screen,
and explained what some of themdo in the original tips.
Another thing that's new is thewidget adjustability.
Previously in Samsung One UI,when you adjusted widgets, it's
kind of clunky and sometimesthey don't really change.
If you adjust the size to lookdifferent, there's a lot of
wasted space.
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So now, if you adjust a widgetlike this calendar widget, check
it out.
If I want to make it smaller orlarger, like if I make this,
it'll tell me where I can makeit, like you see how here it's
telling me no, I can't do it,yeah, but if there is a way to
adjust it, it actually uses thespace differently.
So see how the cactus iconminimizes the smaller I make it.
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See, I can make it all the waydown to a pill size one, and
then I can make it all the wayup to this large one.
Oh no, that's cool.
It completely changes theanimation and like the images
and stuff condensed so thatthere's no wasted space.
And the same thing is true,like of this one too, although
this one.
This is a double calendarwidget, so you can't really make
it too small, because obviouslyyou won't be able to see both
calendars.
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But the countdown widget, youcan adapt it to a bunch of
different shapes, so that waywhen you adjust it, the
animations look nice and there'sno wasted space on it.
I think that's a huge nicetouch.
They've had a problem with thatfor a while.
Also, the app icons when youmove them around, it's a little
bit easier to do this on thegrid.
You can kind of see wherethey're going.
They're also set up so thatit's more symmetric on your home
(22:29):
screen.
Um, in the past you know theway the app grid was.
It wasn't very symmetric andsometimes you couldn't place
things in the proper way to geta symmetric look.
Samsung really took some timeto think about kind of the
aesthetic look of their device.
Um, and you know, some peoplehave said and I'm getting tired
of hearing this obviously onthat it looks like iOS.
It really doesn't look like iOS?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No, I don't think it
does.
I think it looks something verySamsung yeah it's still not iOS
.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It doesn't look like
iOS.
I mean, I'm the first one, toriand I, since we started this
podcast.
We spent a lot of time beforethe beginning of the podcast
calling them out for the Z Foldlaunch, bought a lot of things
that did look like Apple, likethis watch I have on my hand
right now my wrist the AppleWatch Ultra, which did borrow a
lot of inspiration from theApple Watch Ultra.
(23:11):
Like I said, the Galaxy WatchUltra borrowed quite a lot from
there, but this doesn't reallylook like iOS to me.
I'm really happy with itoverall.
They added large folders now aswell.
So if you look at this one,tori, this is a large folder.
If you look on your phone, inthe past you used to have this
kind of folder.
If you shrink it, this used tobe small like this one.
But now if you long press andhit the settings cog, the little
(23:34):
pencil, you can hit enlarge andit will make it large.
And guess what?
This is the really cool part.
If you have icons that are in,you have icons that are in your
apps that are in a large folder.
You can just tap on the icon togo right into the app.
You don't have to open thefolder first.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I like that, isn't
that sweet.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
That makes it really
nice and usable for you, because
now if you have stuff, you wantto organize it still, but you
don't want to have to open thefolder, which is an extra step,
every time you want to go into,like a frequently used icon.
Yeah, I love this because Ihave a lot of Google apps that I
use, like Google Keep Studiofor managing my YouTube channel,
drive and Google Photos.
I open them all the time but Ialso still want all my Google
(24:10):
apps organized in one folder, soinstead of now having to have
it on my home screen so I canjust quickly get to it, because
I open it a lot I can still putthem in the folder and organize
them.
But I could jump right intoYouTube Studio, right into
Google keep, or I do all myoutlines for my videos and I'd
have to go through the extrastep.
I will definitely use theenlarged folder feature.
What do you think, tori?
Something that you would finduseful.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, actually I
would.
I really enjoy just puttingeverything in folders and maybe
it's just because I don't wantto swipe horizontally so many
times, but no, I think it'd be agood feature.
I I honestly do feel like and Idon't think anything is out of
apple, but I I really do feellike this would be a great new
experience for all of those, uh,who love samsung me too yeah
(24:53):
doing samsung yeah, I think it'suh.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Overall, the home
screen just looks very clean.
Uh, I, I think you know I I was, you know I was against the
separate lock screen.
I mean sorry, the quick paneland notifications.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
in the beginning that
would be the only thing I mean.
I feel like it's pretty solidnow, but I'm like just to reach
over yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I'm going to try it
and see if I can get used to it.
I was against it when I firstsaw it.
I've used it now for 36 hours.
I'm still on the fence.
The good news is, as I told youguys, when this was first
rumored and leaked and wecovered it on Sammy Guru and
people were freaking out Samsungis not going to force you to
use it.
They almost always will giveyou an option to revert back to
your old version, and when Ioriginally saw it I was like
(25:37):
they're probably going to maybegive you an option in GoodLock.
They didn't even do that.
They give you a stock option.
You can do it in the stocksettings.
All you got to do is hit thesettings, cog up here, go to
panel settings.
Like I said, choose it togetherhere and then, once you go to
together, go back, and nowthey're going to be combined
into one.
Now your notifications and yourquick settings are there and you
(25:58):
can get back to it.
So if you don't like their newdefault, you can get back to the
old look, no problem.
So that's nice.
Let's take a look now at thelock screen a bit, because I
know a lot of people want totalk about lock screen and the
first thing I'll do before we dothat is let's set a, let's go
to clock and we'll set a timer.
(26:19):
You know, let's set a timer,for we've been doing this for
about 20 minutes.
I need to set a timer for about12 minutes, cause then I'll
need to take an ad break.
You know we'll have to thankthe sponsor of today's podcast.
This is a preemptive warning,but anyway, this is the new live
activities feature.
You see how it shows you thetimes in there in the top corner
(26:40):
.
That's the new live activitiesthat we talked about.
You've got your timer rightthere, counting down in the top
corner.
That's the new live activitiesthat we talked about.
You've got your timer rightthere, counting down in the top,
and I noticed now that Imistakenly said it for 12 hours.
We won't be here in 12 hoursbut, but it sets the purpose of
showing this.
And now, if you go to the, ifyou scroll down to the
notifications, you also see yourlive activity up here I really
like that.
Yeah, that is really and itshows you what is live up here
(27:01):
Now lots of things have liveactivities, not just the alarm
but lots of other things likemusic and things like that can
also be persistent and they showon the now bar.
So if you go to the lock screen, your now bar is down here.
There's your now bar, and so youcan tap and then expand it to
see your new activity.
And you can have variousdifferent Now Bar activities.
(27:26):
So let me go into YouTube Musicand let me queue up some
non-copyrighted music, becauseI'm not trying to get sued today
.
We're not trying to get sued inthis industry.
So if you go to the lock screenand now you have YouTube Music
playing, now you have two liveactivities.
You've got music and the clockso you can swipe between them
Still.
I like that, see, I can swipebetween the vertical activities
(27:48):
nice animation and check thisout with music.
If you tap on this, you get abrand new music player with the
album art on the lock screen.
See, I've got the album art popup right there it's gorgeous.
And if you have your galaxy budsconnected which I don't right
now, but I want to show you thislet me open my buds so they do
connect.
Um, if you have your GalaxyBuds connected which I don't
right now, but I want to showyou this Let me open my Buds so
they do connect.
If you have your Galaxy Budsconnected and you're playing
(28:09):
with your Galaxy Buds here, letme see if I can turn this on.
You can do it, I can do it.
That's what Ice Cube said.
It said you can do it.
Put your back into it.
Here we go.
So here's the buds right here.
See the buds icon.
If I tap on that now, I get allthese, these various options
for my buds, like 360, audioequalizer, transparency, volume.
(28:30):
Um, you can see the charge andeverything on your buds and
everything.
So this media player is reallyawesome, in my opinion.
Uh, you get full album, art andeverything.
It just looks gorgeous.
Um, one thing I will say isthat the icons they.
They fluctuate between dark andlight, even if you have light
mode on.
I think maybe that's a bug.
I don't know if Samsung intendedthat, but the icons go from
(28:52):
dark to white and I think somepeople will probably be bothered
by that.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
I don't think it will
bother me.
Oh, I mean, yes, I do think.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
You know I mean the
enthusiasts.
They'll just be a little.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh yeah, I do think
you know, I mean the enthusiast,
they just be like guys.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
How can we not have
consistency between see, look,
see what I mean.
Like here it's white Cause whenit's on the, always on display,
and then, when you go here,it's dark.
I mean, it makes sense to me,cause this is a light wallpaper.
Um, there are new options forediting on the lock screen.
So if you long press on the andyou go into the lock screen,
now down here with your quicktoggles, your quick settings,
(29:26):
you have new options.
Instead of just using apps, youcan set all these actions so
you could do a sound, turn yoursound on or off or mute,
flashlight, airplane mode,mobile data power saving.
The two that I chose are do notdisturb and scan QR code.
So now I can just swipe thisicon on the home screen and it
turns on my Do Not Disturb.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Oh, I like that and I
can swipe this icon on the home
screen and it automaticallyopens up my QR scanner.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I can scan QR codes
because I feel like I need to do
that quite a lot.
Previously, all you could puthere was an app icon, which is
nice, but it's nice to be ableto have other actions, like
being able to quick scan QR andalso do do not disturb.
So I think adding some optionsthere is really nice.
Up here you've got new clockstyles that you can edit, new
styles for the clock.
(30:11):
You can, of course, also addyour widgets on here.
There's some new fonts andcolors.
You can also change thethickness of the clocks.
Yeah, I went from thick to thin.
I like it thick.
You know what I?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
mean Definitely.
I like to like it thick.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You know what I mean.
Definitely I like to keep itthick and then you can change
your color just like you couldbefore.
You've got widgets.
They have some new widgets here.
They added about, I think,seven new widgets.
You've got battery, calendar,camera, clock, device, care,
(30:46):
digital well-being, expert raw,which is an interesting one
gallery, interpreter, modes androutines, reminders, wi-fi,
voice recorder and weather.
Um, the weather one is kind ofredundant, I mean.
I guess not if you want to putextra stuff here, but you can
already have the weather in thetop of the clock, which is where
I put in um, the one thingthat's missing here from the
lock screen that some peoplelike to put from the editing on
the lock screen is the contactinformation.
So people like to put from theediting on the lock screen is
the contact information.
So people like to put theircontact info on their lock
screen.
You can't add that from thelock screen anymore, and the
(31:08):
reason I figured out why.
It's because the now bar isdown here and they don't want
you to be able to just put itanywhere.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I mean but?
But if you look here, I haveSammy Guru written in the
contact information.
So how did I add it?
Well, if you go into yoursettings and you go to lock
screen, and always on display,in the main settings, you can
find contact information.
It's right below the roamingclock.
So here's where you can putyour contact info.
Some people like to put theirphone number or their email or
(31:39):
whatever, and so I just putSammy Guru there, so I show
people, so you can still do thatum, with the contact info if
you want to.
But it's not on the lock screensettings anymore.
So you, a lot of people wereconcerned that that was gone
entirely and it's.
It's not gone.
Um.
One concern that I have, andlooking at the now bar and the
(31:59):
contact info and everything, Ilike it and I like the lock
screen.
What do you think about thelock screen?
One other thing that we didn'tnotice.
I'll mention this and then youcan talk about it the
notifications no longer show inthe middle.
You know how your notificationsare in the middle.
They're now up here by defaultand so if you want to get them
down, you just swipe down.
So your notifications are justlittle icons at the top left.
(32:20):
Some people have said theydon't like this.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's too much like
the iPhone?
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
But you know it's
really personal preference.
I mean, I've gotten kind ofused to this, but you can change
this back as well.
Like I said, samsung's nevergoing to leave you out to dry.
They always care about choice.
If you go into yournotifications and go into lock
screen notifications in thesettings, you can change it from
icons back to cards and thenba-boom, you've got your cards
(32:46):
right back in the middle justlike they were before.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I like that, so if
you like the cards.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
If that's something
you're used to, then you know
it's not really a huge deal.
But what do you think about thelock screen as a whole?
I mean the default.
What do you think about theicons being at the top instead
of the cards?
You don't like that.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yeah, no, because for
me, like I don't know and I
feel like other people do it tooI mean it's a good way to just
kind of keep track of everything, like you know, especially if
you're like on the go, and soit's kind of hard at least in my
opinion to have to go toanother place just to get it to
appear.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Well, here's the
thing, though, Tori you can
swipe down in the middle stillto get all the notifications.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
You don't have to.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I mean yeah in this
case they're already shown.
Some people were saying well,yeah, sometimes I glance at my
time and then I want to glanceat my notifications without
doing anything.
So I just pick up my phone,boom, I'm looking at my time.
My perspective it's like well,all I have to do is one swipe of
my thumb and then.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I can look at the
notifications too so I don't
know.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
It looks for people
who care about this is going to
be, you know, the classic debatebetween anybody who uses
anything.
Do you care more about form orfunction?
Do you care about how pretty itis or do you care about how
well it works?
because this is the moreutilitarian thing is having the
cards there they don't lookpretty, they're kind of ugly,
and certainly if you use theicons in the top left it makes
(34:10):
it a lot prettier because ofcourse, look, you can see your
whole wallpaper.
It just looks beautiful.
I mean, it's minimal but it'snot as functional because then I
have to swipe down to see allmy information yeah so it just
depends do you like?
do you like form or do you likefunction.
I'm perfectly okay with eitherone.
The main thing that matters tome, and the one thing I'm glad
they didn't do, and I don'tthink Samsung or Android will
(34:32):
ever do is on iOS, when you lookat a notification, it goes away
from the lock screen.
That's something I would neverbe able to deal with, Like if I
looked at my notifications andthen I couldn't view them
anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I'm not a fan of that
.
Like that's the default.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I will just sit there
with them.
Yeah, I'll just leave minethere all day.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I'll have like 7,000
notifications at the end of the
day because you know so manypeople message me because social
and everything and YouTubestudio, I don't care, I'll care.
I'll use it as a filing cabinetthroughout the day and I will
not let anyone take that awayfrom me.
That's why people have to prymy Android and my Samsung phone
from my cold dead hands.
I'll never switch to iPhone asmy main device.
That one thing will never letme switch, because I hate the
(35:14):
way they do notifications.
But this, this implementation,I could go either way with it.
It's not a huge thing to me.
There's one that's even worse.
You can do just dots, check itout.
This one's really minimal.
It just shows you actually,with the, with the carrier up
there, it doesn't even show itto you.
It just shows a little dot uphere to say you have a
notification.
There's no icons or anything.
(35:35):
Now, I wouldn't want that.
That's, that's a little much.
I still want to know, like,which icon, which which apps do
I have notifications from so Ican see the icons, because
otherwise, like, how do I knowif I need to take a look at
something?
Because, for all I know, itcould be a notification from the
mcdonald's app telling me thatI can get a free large fry today
.
That is true, which I mean isn'tnecessarily a bad thing,
(35:57):
because I mean I would like afree large fry on friday it's my
cheat day but it might not becritical for me to look at that
notification right now if I'mdoing some work or, on the other
hand, you know, like if nicoleis messaging me something, I
better look at that notificationno, you better.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Better, because I
don't trouble.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
There's gonna be some
big problems there's a huge
difference in the hierarchy ofthose notifications so you have
to be a little careful with that.
Um.
So that's.
We dug through notifications uhscreen, the quick settings, the
app drawer, the home screen,and now we went through a lot of
the lock screen.
We might have a few more thingsto say, gonna dig into some
(36:35):
more.
We still got about 30 minutesor so left today to get through
some more stuff.
Like I said, this is probablygoing to be a part two show.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
It's all about the
cliffhanger because I want you
guys to subscribe to the podcastso you can come back for next
week as he's the king oftransitions.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
When you get to hear
all the stuff that we found
between now and then, but I'mgoing to come back and talk
about some huge features,changes, improvements to
usability that we can talk aboutand some camera features and
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All right, everybody, we're backfrom the break.
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It's always appreciated.
A couple of things we want totalk about.
Uh.
One big one in terms offeatures is we now have native
call recording in one ui7 on thegalaxy s24 ultra at least, and
(38:34):
I'm assuming all other deviceswill as well.
If you go into the callsettings, you know how the tab
called recorded calls or recordcalls and you can find your
recorded calls right here.
I did some calls to myselfyesterday to test.
I called myself.
Sometimes I like to do athree-way call when I'm testing
and call it me myself and I andthat's what I do and I do like
(38:55):
test conversations too and Ihave to take screenshots.
But yeah, in the past neverbeen a native call recorder on
us galaxy phones around theworld.
They've had it.
So if you're aninternationalist or you're
probably like why the hell isthis a big deal?
Why do we care?
We've had this forever andyou're right, you have.
If you live in another country,samsung has had call recording
for a while, but if you live inthe US, you haven't, because
(39:18):
there's various state laws insome states that don't allow
recording, or at least recordingwithout the other person's
consent.
Samsung got around this becausenow if you call someone and
I'll actually show you see if wecan get a little little sound
of this, um, I'm gonna call tory.
Okay, call tory, I gotta callhim and uh wait, I got.
(39:40):
I don't even think I have yournumber in here.
Tory, what the heck?
How do I not have your number?
You don't, what's?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
up with that.
No, you put your number inthere.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I don't even think I
have your number in here, Tori.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
What the heck?
How do I not have your number,Tori?
You don't.
What's up with that.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
No, you should Put
your number in there.
I don't know, maybe it'sbecause I didn't sync my Google
contacts.
Anyway, I'll have to save it incontacts.
If you're not in my, maybeyou're not in my SIM card
contacts.
Maybe I didn't sync Googlecontacts to Me and Tori usually
converse on Facebook Messengeror other stuff.
Slack or something, so let mecall you and then let's check
this out.
So it's actually going to play.
No, I don't want to take it onmy Galaxy Book.
(40:08):
No, no, no, no, don't do that.
No, it's trying to play on myGalaxy Book.
It wants to do this on myGalaxy Book, but no, okay, go
ahead and answer it.
So now what I'm going to do?
See it says this call is beingrecorded.
(40:30):
It told Tori that the call isbeing recorded, so he has a
warning and so that gets around.
You know, like the issues withsome of the laws in various
States.
And at the top it'll say thatit's transcribing the call as
well, and then here it saysrecorded.
You can see on my watch sayscall recorded.
Oh, I really like that.
And so now it willautomatically record your calls
(40:50):
and it'll use galaxy eye totranscribe your calls into text
so you can review the text ofyour calls anytime from the call
log, which is really awesome.
Um, the get the transcribing isactually new to everybody.
So even if you're in anothercountry, this is a new feature.
But the call recording nativelyhas been every other country
for a while, but now now we haveit in the US.
So I know people in the US aregoing to be stoked, because
(41:12):
every year, unfortunately, thistakes away one of my most
popular videos.
Every year, when the Galaxy Sphones come out, I make a video
about how to record calls onyour Galaxy phone.
Now people won't need me forthat anymore.
That video has a couple hundredthousand views, so they're
taking away my business overhere, but it's good, I mean I'll
still make the video.
I'll probably just show peoplehow to use the built-in call
(41:34):
recorder, which is obviouslybetter for everybody to have it
built into the OS instead ofhaving to install a third-party
app, because you don't know whatthe third-party app is going to
do with your data and so youdon't want them to have all your
call logs and everything.
That doesn't sound appealing,but that's what people have had
to do in the us for a while.
Uh, what do you think, tori?
You like that feature, havingcall recording and transcription
?
Speaker 2 (41:54):
actually I do because
, uh, I would use it a lot in my
job because, like, there's somany times when the parent does
not speak english, um, and so uh, like, uh, when I'm on the
phone.
So I, I would really like that,um, if I was using my phone to
call a parent.
That would just help me outtremendously.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Great feature.
Yeah, I really do like thatfeature and I think a lot of
people use it.
Some people were asking isthere a way to turn the call
recording off?
Well, you don't need to turn itoff because the only way to
enable it is to do it on a percall basis.
When I called Tori, there's alittle button that pops up next
to the call on the call screen.
That is the recording andtranscription button.
If you don't press that, thenthe call is not recorded.
(42:36):
So no big deal.
So there's no need to turn itoff.
On a global level, you canchoose to have it either turned
on or off for a specific calland if you turn it on, it's
going to show you a countdownthree, two one saying that it's
going to tell the other person,and then at the end of the
countdown it'll say this call isbeing recorded, so the other
person knows, and then it startsthe recording and transcription
.
So it will transcribe it totext and you can review it later
(42:57):
on.
Um, really great.
If you have like a businesscall and you need to remember
like what you talked about onthat call as well, you have a
full transcription.
You can read it, uh, instead ofjust listening to it which is a
lot more convenient becausesometimes you don't have time to
go back and listen to an entire30 minute call you just want
like to look through some textand skim it, and I think that's
very useful.
Now I want to mention one otherthing about the now bar that I
(43:19):
forgot to say before we went tothe break.
I don't know what Samsung isgoing to do on the cheaper
Galaxy phones that have theoptical fingerprint sensor,
because the optical sensor islower on the screen it's
actually down here, and this oneis the ultrasonic.
That's on the flagship modelsthat we have.
But if you have a cheaper phonelike the S24 FE, the scanner is
(43:41):
further down and that's goingto interfere with the Now Bar or
your contact info.
So a lot of people have askedthis question what are they
going to do about the Now Bar?
Is it not going to be availablewhen you install it on
something like an S24FE?
Speaker 2 (43:55):
And I don't know, Is
this the Now Bar for my phone or
we don't have?
Speaker 1 (44:00):
one.
No, that's just a Google searchwidget.
Yeah, it doesn't have Now Baryet on that one at all.
That's a new feature.
But that's the Google searchwidget which comes by default on
a lot of us phones.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Now there's now bar
that just basically searches a
majority of things that arealready on the phone.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Any of your live act
in like any activities that have
like information you need tostay aware of.
Can go on the now bar likemusic timers, alarms, anything
that's like time sensitive.
So, anything that's like goingon currently.
Eventually, I would imagine,they'll probably do kind of like
Apple does with the dynamicIsland and you can pin like
sports scores and stuff to thenow bar, which would be really
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cool.
I would love that because I'm abig sports fan and so I'd love
to have my sports course pinthere.
That's something I'd probablyuse more than anything.
It's actually one of the fewthings I like about the dynamic
Island on the iPhone anddefinitely something I'd like to
see Samsung use.
But people have asked thisquestion do is the now bar going
to come to some of the midrange and lower range Samsung
phones?
I don't know, because it'sgoing to interfere.
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The fingerprint sensor isdefinitely going to interfere
with this bottom information.
There's a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
It's really low, just
looking at it.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Yeah, so there could
be some problems there.
We'll have to see.
It's definitely going to bevery close if, because I have to
look at my s24 fe and just seethe placement I haven't booted
it up because obviously I'vebeen, you know, just living with
one ui7 on this phone the lastfew days.
But I I will look at it andkind of let you guys know what I
think, but I definitely thinkit's going to be a little, a
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little bit tight, so we'll seewhat happens.
Uh, we do have a brand new.
Another new feature I want totalk about when you go into the
paste menu.
So when you long press to pastesomething like here on x, you
have this sweet new galaxy aiicon up here and if you tap it
you get a brand new galaxy aicomposer right here and it's
absolutely fantastic.
You can now check your spellingand grammar, writing style,
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summary, convert to bulletpoints and now you can compose
directly from this menu.
So if you hit compose, you cannow write what you want to write
.
So I can say, like we'rerecording the Sammy Guru podcast
live and then I'll say the bestSamsung news source on the
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internet and let's see what itsays.
I want to do it in a socialmedia style my own style.
It learns your style postingover time and it says we're
recording the Samsung podcastlive.
Right now still trying to fixthis weird scrolling issue in
One UI 7.0.
It's the best Samsung newssource on the internet, even if
my phone isn't fully cooperating.
Clearing the cache didn't work,so I'm exploring other options.
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Hopefully this update 7.0feature will be working
correctly soon.
I'm still digging for answers.
Maybe talking it through on thepodcast will help.
That seems a little pedantic,but hey, it's trying to help me.
Here's the big feature, thoughPreviously you couldn't use the
Galaxy writing assistant if youused a.
Use the galaxy I writingassistant if you used a
third-party keyboard.
So if you want to use google'skeyboard gboard instead of
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samsung keyboard, you couldn'tuse it because it was built into
the keyboard.
Now, because it's built intothe pasting menu, you can use
galaxy I writing assistant withany keyboard you want.
So if you're a gboard user, nowyou can use this and it is
actually a good feature.
You can also convert things, youknow.
See, this was standard.
It's a little pedantic.
This was actually the standardlength.
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If I convert it to detailed,it's going to be super long.
It has a standard or a detailedlength for Galaxy Eye.
But yeah, I mean, it's a reallynice feature and I think the
better thing is that now you canutilize this with a third-party
keyboard.
I forgot, do you use Gboard orSamsung keyboard?
We talked about it at one pointGboard you use Gboard, so now
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you'll be able to use thisGalaxy Eye Assistant writing
assist with your Samsung or withyour Google keyboard on your
Galaxy phone which is great.
I think a lot of people want touse Gboard because they might
not be Samsung keyboard fans ohyeah but they might want to use
Galaxy I writing assist becauseit has some nice features.
So that's a new feature insideOne UI 7 and brings some actual
utility to Galaxy users.
Trying to see what else do wehave?
What questions do you haveabout the beta?
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Anything, tori, that you wantto know about One UI 7?
Speaker 2 (48:04):
No, I mean honestly
like I'm just excited to get it
and I want to get it on like thenew phone, uh, when it comes
out, hopefully they're going togive you a break and give you a
few weeks, um hopefully they'llgive me a few weeks.
Yeah, if they're listening tothe show, I mean since, since
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we've been going it's been we'vegiven out so much good samsung
knowledge.
I'm sure they probably havepeople you know waiting every
time they're always dropping thesamsung knowledge knowledge
bombs.
You know what I mean yes, wejust explode samsung knowledge
into your brain every time wecome on the show, every single
time um expanding your horizons.
But I do want to make a quickuh known to actually uh,
(48:47):
actually do like a majority ofthe features.
Uh, I still, and I think to, uh, people cheering outside.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
They must be, they
must be huge fans of this.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
They must be.
They must be somehow listeningin, uh, but no, I I I'm sure
that once it comes out I willeventually get used to how the
drop downdown settings andnotification, but literally
everything else you've shown me,I think, has been a huge
improvement quality of life andtruly I can do a great majority
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of things with just my one handif I needed to do so.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
Yeah, that's a good
question, Do you think it's?
I mean, I think it's stillpretty one-handed friendly.
They did redesign the camerainterface too, which is another
one.
I want to show you See how thecamera toggles are at the bottom
now.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Including this little
thing that expands so you can
do everything with one hand.
I think it's still in line withtheir original vision of One UI
to be a one-handed operatingsystem.
Some people have said thathaving those notifications at
the top left makes it not thatway.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
That's what I was
initially thinking, but I do
think I'm like come on on aregular basis.
How much am I really going backto any app or program that I
have running?
Speaker 1 (49:58):
Yeah, and since you
can swipe anywhere on the lock
screen to get your notificationsanyway, it's not too bad.
I think they've kept their kindof goal of making One UI 7
one-handed in line for the mostpart.
There's another new feature Iwant to talk about too.
There's a new feature in thesound settings that's called app
sound settings.
So now you can have differentsound settings for different
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apps.
So let's say that you use, likeYouTube, spotify and maybe
YouTube music.
You might not want the samevolume settings for all of them.
Maybe you have a podcast apptoo, like Pocket Casts, because
you're listening to our podcast.
You can change the volumesetting for each app and One UI
will remember the volume forthat app.
So if you open the app again,it'll keep the volume settings
for that particular app whenyou're listening to, like
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headphones and stuff.
That's pretty awesome, I think,because one problem that I have
a lot is I do use YouTube musicand Spotify.
Youtube music the way thequality of the music, the bit
rate it is a little bit highervolume than Spotify.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
So, if I keep my
Spotify volume turned up, but
then if I use the same volume inYouTube music, it destroys my
eardrums.
So now you can have separatesound settings for your
headphones for each individualapp.
So if you, want your YouTubemusic to be a little lower now
you don't have to destroy yourhearing, so one day, when you
get older, you'll be able tohear stuff so, yes, that'll be
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the plan.
I do not want hearing aids oranything.
That's a pretty big positive, Ithink so so, uh, that's a
pretty big feature.
That's that's one that I like.
We wrote that up on sammy guru.
There's a couple of other soundfeatures as well, um, which is
normalizing the volume.
You can normalize the volumeacross all apps, so basically,
it's the same level of volumeacross all apps if you want, of
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course, since you can change thesettings individually, you
could toggle it so that one islower or other, but it can
normalize it so it's kind of thesame volume across all of them,
which is nice for particular umfor a particular set of audio
equipment like my Buds 3 Pro Iplayed with it on there.
That's a really nice feature.
There are a couple of thingsthat of course, people are going
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to be disappointed about withany release.
That's always the case.
Two things that are missing,that were rumored, that are not
in the first beta we have no applock.
People have wanted app lockforever, so that means you can
lock an application so basicallyno one else can get into it.
I don't know kind of shadystuff people are doing that they
really need app lock, but Iguess people must be out there
doing some shady dealings yeahI'm not doing any shading
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dealing, so I don't need to belocking my instagram or anything
well, yeah, nobut you know, um, people are
worried about this.
I'm just kidding, by the way.
It's a great feature to have.
I mean, Samsung should bring it.
We still have app pinning, butit's not the same as a real app
lock.
We have secure folder, butthat's also not the same as a
real app lock.
You can put apps in the securefolder and then they're kind of
locked, but it's not the same asjust locking one application.
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I mean mainly.
It seems like a lot of youngerpeople want this feature, which
I think so too.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
Uh, I mean, you know,
we're we're kind of like at
that point where, um, as I'malso seeing a lot more young
people also get a Samsung, butlike they're all about keeping
uh locks on like certain appsand stuff.
So, uh, I I do think uh withthe maybe that's, but maybe
that's cause they're significant.
Speaker 1 (53:09):
Others are trying to
go through their stuff.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
Oh, yeah, probably.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
I don't have that
problem, thankfully, because, I
mean, I don't care what age youare.
If you're in a trustingrelationship, you shouldn't need
to be worried about lockingyour phone.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Yeah, no, yeah.
I've had it Like you know, ifNicole has something she knows,
she knows that too.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
But but I mean, yeah,
I mean I got nothing to hide,
so I mean I'm not too worriedabout it for that reason.
Uh, dark mode icons are alsomissing.
So a lot of people were hopingthat when you turn the phone to
dark mode, the stock icons wouldautomatically also go to dark
mode.
That doesn't happen.
Um, they wanted that to happenbecause that's what Apple did
with iOS.
I don't know why we want to becopying iOS.
Everyone's always complainingabout it.
(53:54):
They're like don't copy iOS.
And then Samsung doesn't copyiOS.
And they're like hey, why thehell didn't you guys copy iOS?
What is wrong with you?
We wanted that feature thatApple put in iOS.
Why didn't you steal it?
And they're like well, hey, youguys told us not to copy iOS.
We were just listening to you.
You guys got to make up yourmind, do you want?
Speaker 2 (54:10):
to.
I mean, it would be the otherway too.
Hey, why the hell did you dothat?
If they put it in there, theynever want to be like look, this
is a direct rip off of iOS.
Speaker 1 (54:19):
This is a Galaxy S24
iPhone edition.
I know they would be, and thenthey'll start doing when they
did like the whole, like thecamera yeah yeah, yeah, making
fun yeah, they'll be trying toreally go in if they did that,
so you know, will that happen?
I honestly don't know.
These were both rumored applock.
I really would like to see themdo that, because that's not
really a ripoff of iphone.
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We'd love to see that, althoughapple did add that in ios 18.
Now that I think about it, yeah, but that's a feature android
other android oems have had fora long time.
They should bring app lock.
I don't really care too muchabout dark mode icons, but I
know some people do care aboutit.
I mean it's probably not thathard to implement, but the
problem with dark mode isthere's so many things that get
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automatically themed when youswitch to dark mode.
There's always room for bugs,like with the coloration in
certain UI elements.
So, playing with one more thingI don't know if Samsung wants
to do that because they'realready a little behind on the
development trail, but theymight want to.
We'll have to see.
Those are pretty much all thebig things we've covered.
I mean, we've wrote a ton ofarticles on Sammy Guru.
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I'm just looking all the wayfrom the fifth.
I mean scroll down the page.
You've got to show more to evenget to all the articles we
wrote.
I know Busting them out, butthese are all kind of, all the
big changes to the UI, designelements, all that stuff.
Some questions aboutavailability, because I know
people asked about that.
So let me answer a few of thosequestions.
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For can you get it?
When will you get it?
All that stuff?
Everyone wants to know whenthey can get One UI 7.
If you have an S 24 in the U?
S, the beta is available nowbut unfortunately it filled up
in one day.
It's now full.
So you can't join the beta for S24.
At least, as last time wechecked people tried to join and
(56:02):
they reported to us on X thatthey got the message from
Samsung the beta is full.
Samsung has a limited number ofslots they allow in the beta.
That way they can respond tofeedback from all the people who
are testing.
Speaker 2 (56:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:12):
Because otherwise, if
they let 5 million people in
and all those people submitfeedback, they don't have enough
people to process and bringthat to the engineers.
So that would be silly to let 5million people in or whatever.
Whatever the number is, theycan reasonably accommodate.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (56:25):
And it looks like
they've reached that number in
the US so they will reopen itfor other devices.
I've got the question when willit open for the S23 series?
Probably in two weeks, based onpast launches.
Two weeks later we probablywill see the S23 get it.
Probably a week or two afterthat, the Z Fold 6 and the Z
Flip 6.
I've heard a lot of displeasurefrom people who have the Z
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Folds and they're like why don'twe get it first?
Mine's a $2,000 phone.
It's the most expensive phonethey sell around the world I
know, but it's a foldable.
It's a lot harder to developsoftware for the foldable
because it has two differentscreen sizes.
Just think about it from theengineering perspective of it.
Like it's not possible tonecessarily have the same
development timeline for the Sseries and the Z series because,
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you have to take into accountall these different folding
screen sizes and they're alldifferent.
Like the cover display on the ZFlip is different, the inner
display, the outer display onthe Fold and the inner display
on the Fold.
That's four different screensizes you have to now worry
about for the new operatingsystem, right?
So that's one of the bigreasons why.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
Well, you know which?
Uh, I think it'll be reallycool, but I I actually like
looking at or not actuallygetting to see it.
Speaker 1 (57:37):
I think these would
be actually pretty good changes
for the foldable line yeah,there actually are some specific
changes for large screendevices that are in the change
log.
I didn't get to show them myvideo because, well, it's not
available yet for a large screendevice.
So there will be specificchanges that are listed in the
change log for getting moreinformation on your Fold or your
tablet and, of course, when thebeta is available for those, I
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will make another video showingthose changes.
But you're right, I just wantto justify to people why Samsung
can't push out the Fold beta atthe same time as the other
betas for the S series.
It's because it's just not aseasy, because you've got more
going on right.
Like when you fold your Z Fold6, the screen size changes.
That doesn't happen with an Sseries phone.
So there's a lot of animationstuff they have to work on.
(58:20):
You know, there's a lot ofpieces that go into making a
great piece of software and this, in my opinion, is great.
I mean, samsung has reallyrisen to another level with One
UI 7.
They've taken that big step, soprobably in early January
you'll see it.
For the Folds, I mean hey, ifyou guys feel bad because your
$2,000 Fold 6 didn't get thebeta right now, I paid $3,000
for a Z Fold Special Edition.
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It don't have the beta either,and so I still got that One UI 6
1.1 software on there, and thebeta probably won't even come to
the special edition, becauseSamsung probably doesn't have
enough resources to devote tosomething that not very many
people own.
So all of us who paid a ton ofmoney to get the Z Fold special
edition, we're probably going tobe waiting even after the Z
Fold 6 owners to get One UI 7.
(59:03):
It'll probably come in March.
So that's what we'll get forspending all that money.
And it's not because Samsunghates you although it probably
seems like that because youspent more money than anyone
else on your phone.
It's because they have toprioritize by the number of
devices people have.
Speaker 2 (59:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (59:17):
They go by, like how
can we fulfill the software for
the biggest majority of peopleand the Z fold special editions,
like the tiny, tiny, tiny, tinynumber of people, because
there's only sold in two regions.
And then there's idiots like mewho imported to the U?
S, who they weren't supposed todo that, and they're like well,
you shouldn't have paid $3,000for it.
You're an idiot, why didn't youjust?
It only sold for 2,100 in Korea, so we didn't market up that
(59:38):
much, so we don't care that youspent three grand, so I don't
even have it on Z fold specialedition.
What about S22?
And before?
Well, s22, tori's phoneprobably going to get the beta
sometime in January, I guessaround the first or second week
of January.
Keep in mind that S25 series issupposed to launch on the 22nd
of January.
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Yes, and that's supposed tolaunch with One UI 7.1.
So they would theoreticallyhave to roll out all of those
betas for the phones that areeligible before the S25 launches
.
Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Yeah, they would.
They would have to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
So that seems like
that could create a little bit
of a time crunch.
They might need totheoretically just move it back
a little bit to accommodate meand themselves and their
software development schedule.
So, they might have to move backthe S25 launch if they're
behind on 7.1, and that meansthe betas for the S 22 could
then come out later in January.
It could be the second or thirdweek.
(01:00:33):
Stable Everyone wants to knowwhen will my phone get it.
And stable, cause some peopledon't want to install the beta.
It's a great question.
The answer is S 24 series.
We'll probably start gettingthe stable update after the S 25
releases.
So let's think about it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Let's do some math, I
releases, so let's think about
it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Let's do some math.
I'm a mathematician, tori's amathematician.
The S25 series is supposed tolaunch on January 22nd.
So if that happens two weekslater would be February 5th, and
so if it launches on February5th, the S24 Ultra could then
get the 7.0 or 7.1.
I don't know.
I assume they're saying the S25will launch with 7.1.
So that might be what the S24series gets, that launch with
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7.1.
So that might be what the s24series gets.
That would mean the s24 serieswould probably get it two weeks
after that, which would befebruary 19th.
Now if samsung were in a veryunlikely event, because everyone
has said is launching on the22nd, if they were to push it
back a few weeks, that wouldthen put the s25 ultra events
somewhere around the 5th ofFebruary, just spitballing, and
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then the S25 series would be instores on the 19th.
That would mean that the stableversion of One UI might not
come to the S24 series untilMarch 3rd.
That would be a long wait,people would not be too pleased
by that at all.
Because, Google is saying thatAndroid 16 is going to roll out
in the spring next year, sosamsung might just be pushing
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out android 15 a month or twobefore they roll out android 16.
That hasn't happened in a longtime.
Samsung has always been on theball with one ui, but you've got
to understand tori's seen ittoday.
This is the biggest overhaul inthe history of one ui I mean,
there's a lot of, a lot of.
There's a lot of new stuff here,like the amount of effort that
went into this.
The animations are amazing, thesmoothness is fantastic.
(01:02:13):
You can't just say, oh well,yeah, they deleted, and we
should be, we should be pissedabout it.
You can be pissed if you want,but they made some impressive
changes and I would rather themdo the full overhaul, then put
out something that's mediocrewith very minimal changes, like
apple does, and then people arestill just upset and saying, oh
well, why didn't they changethis, why didn't they change
that?
Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
well, because still
buying the same film exactly
well, because you wanted thebeta in september.
Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
So they didn't change
anything, they just put it out
to accommodate you.
That's what would be said ifthey had done that yeah but now,
since they waited three or fourmonths later, people are like,
well, why did they wait?
Because they made massivechanges and they for the better.
So yeah.
So everyone is saying when am Igoing to get the stable?
If you really want now, itcould be a while.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
Early march, I would say at thelatest for s24, um, so I would
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say all the samsung phones.
If I'm being cautious, all theeligible phones will have it by
april 1st of 2025 and that meanslike all, like the mid-rangers
and everything that are eligible.
Now, remember, if you have amid-range phone or a lower phone
range phone, they're notnecessarily going to get every
single feature from one UI sevendot O.
So there you go.
That's most of the bigquestions I've had in terms
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about availability.
One more key question I gotthat I want to touch on.
That's not when you I sevenrelated.
One more key question I gotthat I want to touch on.
That's not One UI 7 related,but we did cover this week.
It's a big one.
We've gotten a lot of questionsabout this.
We talked about it a lot onthis podcast.
Samsung Messages is beingreplaced by Google Messages, as
we know Samsung has toldeveryone this.
Well, this week that gotescalated to a new level.
Verizon started sending outtext messages to all their
(01:03:46):
customers in the country.
Have Samsung phones?
Do all their customers in thecountry have Samsung phones?
Saying RCS messaging will beremoved from Samsung messages
starting on January 6, 2025.
Several of our readers sent usscreenshots.
So if you use Samsung messagesas of January 6, 2025, you will
no longer have RCS.
So you'll have no read receipts, no reactions like thumbs up or
(01:04:08):
hearting or any of that.
You'll have no high qualitymedia send.
And in the message, verizonsays you need to switch to
Google messages to continuegetting a great messaging
experience and they give you alink to install Google messages.
So Samsung is serious aboutmoving from Samsung to Google
messages, at least in the U?
S.
Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
We've we've, we've,
we've seen all the signs.
Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
We've seen all the
writing on the wall, but now
it's legitimate.
My mom even asked me about itthis morning.
She has her eyes and she got atext message.
She's like what does this mean?
And I'm like it means that youneed to move to Google messages
because you want RCS.
Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Yes, you do, you do
want RCS.
Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
So, yeah, a lot Other
people have asked me are the
other carriers going to followsuit?
My guess would be yes, becausewhy wouldn't they?
Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
T-Mobile and.
Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
AT&T are probably
going to follow suit.
It seems like Samsung does notwant to get certified to work
with RCS for all the US carriersbecause that costs money and
Google Messages is alreadycertified because Google kind of
built the RCS platform in theUS with the carriers.
So they're like well, why wouldwe spend money?
We can just do Google messagesand we we already partnered with
Google, so no big, no big dealfor us, let's just push
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everybody to Google messages.
Will that happen in the rest ofthe world?
I don't know.
I mean, it's mainly a U Scarrier thing right now, but the
U?
S is a big market andeventually Samsung could say
well, why the heck are we stillmaintaining Samsung messages?
We already got rid of it in theU S.
Why do?
Why?
Are we still doing support forit and all the updates?
Let's just force everybody elseto use it.
(01:05:37):
The only reason I would say theymight not do that is Google
messages, and Google as a wholeis not as big of a deal Other
places, like in Asia, as it ishere.
Um, so they might not do it,but I mean, I'll be honest, I
really do think in Europe atleast, this will happen.
I think eventually Googlemessages will help replace
Samsung messages in Europe,because Google has a lot of
influence there and it's verywidely used Google services.
(01:05:59):
Maybe not in Korea, maybe notin China, because those are
different markets with differentkind of software schemes and
kind of how people use theirsoftware and different apps.
But I would guess in the US andEurope at a minimum, this is
going to happen.
So let us know.
If you guys have seen this Text, if you have Verizon and
certainly if you have anothercarrier and you get this message
(01:06:19):
, let me know.
We'd love to write it up.
We wrote it up.
We've got a lot of questionsabout this on the website,
people coming by the website andasking us what this means and
how it's going to affect them.
So that's what Samsung andVerizon have said about it.
I think that's mostly what wewanted to say.
I admit we went for only anhour.
We should be like only an hour.
Well, I'm a little tired.
I did like four videos, a bunchof shorts.
(01:06:41):
I've been nonstop tweeting allof my One UI 7 finds.
We wrote a ton of articles.
I love One UI 7.
I love Samsung, but I also haveto rest and take a mental kind
of break from it.
Next week what I'd really liketo do and some people already
started putting a bunch ofquestions over on X is to mainly
do like a Q&A show.
I mean, I still have a few morefeatures that I want to go
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through as well, that are morehidden features, and I'll have
more time between now and then.
So if you guys have questionsabout One UI 7, specific
features, things you'd like tosee, send them in.
And if you have a questioncomment concern improvement,
bugs that you've noticed, me andTori will talk about them and
kind of give some feedback.
We'll probably go a little bitlonger next week because I won't
be as tired.
I got through the really toughpart of the coverage where I
have to make really detailedlogs of every single thing and
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all the notes I have to take.
I now kind of know when you, Iseven like the back of my hand,
but I'm sure I'll find a fewmore things still.
Does it say like the back ofyour hand?
You know, it's a weird saying,isn't it?
Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
It's like, it's like
what's the implication there?
Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
You know, like, why
do you know the back of your
hand so well?
Yeah, know One UI 7.
Very well, in terms of whatelse we have coming up here on
the channel and on the podcast,we are going to have Flossie
Carter on during the S25 launch.
I've already booked that.
I'm trying to get a couple ofthe.
(01:07:58):
Let's see if we can get acouple of the people that people
have requested.
Juan Bagnell was one of theguys people requested.
My buddy, Shane Starnes, isanother YouTuber who does
Android.
He might come on the show aswell as a guest.
I will be at CES and Tori and Iwill figure out the podcast.
I don't think we're going tostop that.
Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Yeah, no, I think we
can do it.
Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
We'll still do it
while I'm at CES.
I'll talk about some of thecool stuff at CES.
Samsung's holding a press event.
They already announced the nameof it, but it's going to talk
about it.
But it's not like in ourwheelhouse.
In our wheelhouse, cause wemainly do mobile, we're going to
talk about it Cause it'sSamsung.
I'll go to the press conferencecourse they invited us and
we'll talk about whatever theytalk about.
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But it's usually like home,smart home and other stuff.
At CS they don't really do alot of mobile, ai or any of that
.
A lot more on the website.
What else I'm trying to think?
Galaxy S25 launch January 22nd.
It's coming up fast.
Can't wait for that.
Make sure you sign up for yourmystery box on the website,
(01:08:59):
sammygurucom slash pre-order andthen we are going to be
launching our case brand verysoon.
I've talked about that a coupletimes on the podcast.
Bukadrik and I showed Tori apreview of the website here
before the who.
Godric and I showed Tori apreview of the website here
before the podcast.
I think it's looking prettygood.
Got a few more things to polishup.
So if you guys are interestedin cases and stuff like that, we
have some great designs.
It's going to come with a lotof customization options.
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You'll get a full pack ofpremium wallpapers with every
case purchase.
So we're really excited aboutthat and that should be
launching.
So if you guys follow us overon x and all the places, we'll
be making the announcement aboutthat too.
Anything else story to addbefore we get out of here today
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
I mean, I mean being
honest, I really like the one,
the one ui.
Uh, I really do like all thefeatures.
I like all the coverage.
I think it's really going to bea game changer in a lot of ways
.
Um, I think it.
For me it would just be takinggetting used to, and uh, one
thing too uh, I know um, justkeeping all like the
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customization and like an easyway to find.
But I'll really be lookingforward to next week as you go a
little bit more in detail withsome of those things that we may
have to use.
Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Good luck for
definitely and we'll definitely
answer a lot of you guysquestions.
Hopefully, drop those.
We already have about 16 or 17of them on X.
I just couldn't answer thosetoday in the podcast Cause a lot
of people dropped them rightbefore.
Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
And I didn't have
time to make a list and I wanted
to go over some of the highlevel changes.
If I'd answered all those, itwould be a three hour.
Three hour show that.