The Morning After: Samsung flip-flops on a One UI beta take a look at

We’ve all been in Samsung’s place, promising one thing earlier than shortly realizing we couldn’t, or didn’t need to, really observe by way of. However the Korean large would possibly get a file for the velocity at which it walked again its preliminary pledge. It had meant to present Galaxy S23 house owners the . Customers within the US, Germany and South Korea would be capable to see what tweaks the corporate had added to Android 14 and see what labored, and what didn’t.

Or that was the plan. Not lengthy after the information dropped, Samsung started to stroll again its promise. It instructed Engadget (and the remainder of the media) it might delay the launch of the beta take a look at till additional discover, however with no justification. The preliminary announcement disappeared from Samsung’s press web site, and everybody’s left mulling what might have been so problematic as to require this kind of scorched-earth strategy.

—Dan Cooper

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