Joe Mark / Android Authority
We’ve spent more time with the debate that I care about counting the debate as to what Android is the best here Android Authority. I have always tilt Google light, smooth pixel UI, but I have friends who will defend Samsung and its custom One UI until their batteries are over. Somehow, they have found a comfort in the endless specialized menu, changing icon pack, and the side scrolling app that have never been clicked for me.
But, if not in the open mind, I am nothing. When an important Android update lands, I take my rounds through the usual suspects, as well as, as well as Samsung, One Plus, and Motorola, as well as Google.
Right now, it means a good, long look, or another, on a UI 7. And as happy I am with a new refreshing, it has not yet emphasized me.
Samsung vs Google vs. OnePlus vs. Moto: Which Android skin do you prefer?
394 votes
Samsung One UI 7
49 %
Google Pixel UI
41 %
One Plus Oxygenus 15
5 %
Motorola Hello UI
3 %
Other (tell us in the comments)
3 %
This (mostly) is what I wanted to feel my Galaxy Z Philip 6
Ryan Hans / Android Authority
First of all, I should make it clear that this is not my first digging in the world of an UI 7. I used Samsung’s latest software on all three – or, but also in four – Galaxy S25 models, including the new Galaxy S25 Edge. He felt natural throughout the lineup, almost almost as the features were specially developed for the sophisticated, most powerful devices of Samsung, because they were.
However, to me, there is a difference in the use of software with which the phone is launched and giving it a significant update that promises a group of new wrinkles. Generally, the former feels the best phone, which is at least wear and tear it on its battery and chip set, which is combined with perfectly better software. Not this time. When I loaded a UI 7 on my Galaxy Z Philip 6, I realized that its previous Android version felt incomplete.
The newly -designed camera makes everything better than the UI, which makes it easier to reach the control now, offering more obvious updates for sports, timers and calendar reminders. It’s almost as if I can work more and more with my Galaxy Z Philip 6 without spending more time or asking Galaxy A to think for me. And, as an anti -Android user who still likes to work semi -physically, I appreciate it.
However, not only these significant changes have made an experience of keeping an UI 7 around. I am just small, such as a vertical scrolling app drawer (in the last late), and like spiral notification menos. Although I could not cope with the latter before, I came to praise it. I was much better than the one -pulse shelf design, much better than I swipe on the opposing parties of my display. Even the dynamic images in an UI 7 feel more polished – yet another simple task that makes a $ 1,100 Philip phone as its price is met.
An UI 7 improves, but many Galaxy Z Philip Hiccups remain.
Then once again, because we’re talking about an exciting form factors of Samsung, I know an UI 7 still has some work to do. Although it promotes daily experience on traditional candy bar phones, it does not fix any rates with the Galaxy Z Philipline, such as a lack of a proper core screen app drawer, nor is there any distribution reports, nor now on the phone’s Flex window.
I probably did not have to expect a large-scale Galaxy Z flip changes in an UI 7, which is significantly delayed-and the opposite of Samsung-the rollout of an UI 7, but it is still disappointed to see that one of the two major players of the Philipphone feels its software. I am hopeful that the Galaxy Z Philip 7 series changes will be made, especially now now that the core screen is getting refreshed, but I refuse to get my hopes.
Is more still more, and sometimes it is too much
Ryan Hans / Android Authority
In introduction, I mentioned that I like Google’s Pixel UI for its light, clean interface. I know it’s not like a stock Android-and I don’t think I like it if it would have been-but its minimalization always seems to be the most comfortable. It is like the easy, smooth iOS interface in the Android world, just with customized options, to make it feel like home.
One UI 7, on the other hand, is the opposite. Yes, it is cleansed and feels more active and efficient than ever, but as far as Android skins go, it is still very high. This is a very customized.
So far, DIY has a slight break in the house Android Authority The team likes some of us like the flexibility presented, while the other, like me, feel it as much as it fills the plate in Thanksgiving. Certainly, it is good to experience the real freedom of leaving the grid or a grid everywhere and everywhere, but as you remove the Samsung’s guards, all stakes are closed.
The DIY Home is more evidence that Samsung’s tremendous specifications are alive and better.
I mistakenly chose two apps and a widget at the same time and hit one of Samsung’s upright buttons, just to know that it attached them to each other. Yes, he set them exactly to the right of my Galaxy Z Philip 6 display, but he did so where I would have to drag everyone to access them. The worse thing is that DIY is not a good way to tog the house and then to restart your sequence – everything is associated with the grid or exactly how you have left it in chaos.
In fact, if Samsung had added a DIY house without the need for a good lock, I probably didn’t mind that much. However, the fact is that the need for additional apps to meet the basic task falls into the classic Samsung trap, tells me that a UI 7 has not learned many lessons. It is still a burden with Microsoft and LinkedIn Partnerships that hold blottware on the default domestic interface, and Samsung cannot decide whether he wants to choose features (like a vertical app drawer) or of them (such as returning to the traditional notification shed).
An UI 7 Samsung is its best performance, but Pixel UI still has my heart
Ryan Hans / Android Authority
Overall, I should not be surprised by the experience of one of my UI 7. I knew that it would be great in my hand after my time with the Galaxy S25 series, and I was mostly excited to try my Galaxy Z Philip 6 because I like the form element. For most parts, Samsung’s software has met my expectations. This has improved what Samsung can improve on his candy bar devices, yet most of the problems of the Philip phone were hanged in the air, as expected, even though it was not the most interesting.
He said, “My return to one of my UI also helped to curb how much this pixel was in my mind with UI.” Google has been doing a lot of things that I was very excited about seeing Samsung embrace. Pixels still have a better, more organized camera experience, and I have never questioned how my app will pop up when I fired a new Google device. See Google’s hardware and software combinations in it seems more fun than Samsung’s active, efficient point of view, and I will continue to catch the pixel each time.
The return to one of my UI also helped to curb mysalize how much this pixel is behind my mind.
And then, there is a UI 7 roll -out chaos. Permanent delays and uncertainty reached the point where my colleague who told him so badly that he would not recommend the Samsung phone, and while struggling with a UI 7 with my brother tank battery life on my phone, I am inclined to agree. Certainly, Samsung will probably smooth some of these cracks over time, but I don’t think we will forget about the delay in just a few months after delaying a UI 8.
