Android Oreo Headed to Unlocked Galaxy S8, Note 8 in 2-3 Weeks

Still waiting for Android 8.0 Oreo on your Samsung Milky way S8, Milky way S8+, or Note eight? Y'all'll have to practise your patience just a footling longer.

Samsung says Oreo should make its way to "all eligible" Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8+, and Annotation 8 devices—including unlocked models—"within the next 2-3 weeks."

"We empathize that many of you accept Unlocked Galaxy S8/+ and Note viii devices and may exist wondering why those with Carrier models are seeing the updates outset," Samsung wrote. "The reason for this is that Unlocked devices must get through more rigorous testing than Carrier-specific devices because we need to make sure there is proper network functionality across ALL supported networks."

Carrier-specific devices require less preparation as they simply demand to exist able to handle 1 network.

Samsung says information technology "can't guarantee" an exact rollout date since the update is nevertheless "pending last testing." When it'south ready, you'll become a notification on your device informing with instructions on how to download it.

Android Oreo earned an "excellent" rating in PCMag'southward review, nabbing props for its "fine-grain notification controls," moving-picture show-in-picture viewing characteristic, autofill capability for apps, and more than. Though Google kickoff released Android Oreo to the public in Baronial 2022, the mobile Bone has only made it to around 1 per centum of Android devices and so far, according to Google's developers dashboard.

"Google has go much improve about working with hardware manufacturers to become operating organisation updates out at a faster stride, but it's unlikely to ever be Apple-like in speed or adoption," we wrote in our Android Oreo review. "This trouble, which critics phone call 'fragmentation' and Google calls 'diversity,' has been around for a long time, and doesn't seem to be going abroad anytime shortly."

In the meantime, a developer preview of Android P is already out; expect for more details nigh that at Google I/O in May.

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'due south practiced on fitness and smart home products. Educational activity yoga for nearly x years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, eye charge per unit monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, forcefulness training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart dwelling house devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, merely to name a few.