New report reveals good and bad news about Samsung’s Galaxy Watch series

Samsung had big issues delivering the One UI 7 update on time and it’s still in the process of rolling it out to all eligible devices. That led not only to delays in the development cycle for One UI 7.1 but also affected its smartwatches too.

After skipping One UI 7.1, Samsung is now reportedly working on a much bigger update for its smartwatches, One UI 8 Watch. That’s the good news. The bad news is there won’t be a One UI 7 Watch update, so if you’re rocking a Galaxy Watch, you’ll have to wait a while longer until Samsung finished developing the much bigger update.

From a Samsung fan’s perspective this might be better considering that One UI 8 Watch isn’t that far off. However, the fact that Samsung had to skip two important updates for its phones and smartwatches, as well as delay a major Android update, doesn’t look good at all.

According to SamMobile, the decision to skip One UI 7 Watch in favor of One UI 8 Watch was made to better align its update strategy. Since its phones are supposed to receive One UI 8 sometime this year, it makes sense for its smartwatches to get a similarly named update around the same time.