An early teaser reveals which telephones will make the minimize

Samsung makes a few of the greatest Android telephones cash should buy, and the corporate is now gearing as much as launch the much-hyped Galaxy S23 collection on February 1. Alongside new {hardware}, we additionally count on the South Korean client electronics agency to announce the general public rollout of its subsequent massive software program launch, One UI 5.1. Now we’re beginning to get just a little perception into Samsung’s improve plans for its current Galaxy telephones.

Samsung garnered heaps of reward for its speedy One UI 5 rollout, based mostly on Android 13. The corporate has set a excessive bar for itself in eager to do issues even quicker when Android 14 lastly lands, however our hopes are excessive for what it could do earlier than then with One UI 5.1, as effectively. Final we heard, Samsung was placing the software program by means of its paces on a handful of Galaxy S22 collection gadgets.

The Galaxy Watch 5’s newest software program replace features a changelog that explicitly references the forthcoming arrival of One UI 5.1, as noticed by 9to5Google. Samsung goes on to checklist the telephones appropriate with the brand new Digital camera Controller performance for the Galaxy Watch 5, enabled by this replace. That characteristic transforms the wearable right into a distant pinch-to-zoom controller for the paired smartphone’s digicam.

Piecing two and two collectively, there is not any doubt Samsung will launch One UI 5.1 alongside the Galaxy S23 collection early in February. The checklist of gadgets supporting Digital camera Controller is successfully the checklist of telephones which can obtain One UI 5.1, and it is a relatively promising one — each flagship launched because the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Z Flip is eligible for the replace. This is not an amazing shock, as a result of we not too long ago reported on possibilities of the previous receiving the brand new software program. In response to this, the next telephones are in line to get their OTA replace to One UI 5.1:

• Galaxy S20 collection
• Galaxy S21 collection
• Galaxy S22 collection
• Galaxy Z Flip
• Galaxy Z Flip 5G
• Galaxy Z Fold 2
• Galaxy Z Flip 3
• Galaxy Z Fold 3
• Galaxy Z Flip 4
• Galaxy Z Fold 4

Nonetheless, this needn’t be an exhaustive checklist of appropriate gadgets, and we now have to imagine that the One UI 5.1 replace will finally make its technique to reasonably priced A-series and M-series Samsung telephones, too. They simply might not be first in line, nor essentially assist the Digital camera Controller characteristic when paired with a Galaxy Watch 5. Hopefully we Samsung publish a extra complete checklist of its replace plans within the close to future.