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A leaked Android 8 build for Galaxy S8 brings Dolby Atmos to the phone!

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With recent stirrings in the Samsung Beta Program for Android 8 on the Galaxy S8 and S8+, it's become obvious that an official update to the next major Android build is drawing near. Official info from the company now states that the Beta Program will be closed on January 15th. This falls in line with earlier reports, which claimed that Android 8 Oreo will be pushed to the Galaxy S8 and S8+ in late January. Also, reports of Oreo hitting Note 8units have also surfaced today. An unreleased beta build has now leaked on Reddit and fans were quick to sideload it on their phones. They discovered that their Galaxy S8 devices (the US variant equipped with the Snapdragon 835 processor) now have a Dolby Atmos toggle in settings! Dolby Atmos is an audio software, which fine-tunes EQ settings and surround emulation for when the user is wearing headphones. As can be seen from one of the screenshots found in the Reddit thread where the leak is discussed, we have 4 presets to choose from —

Galaxy S8 Android 8.0 Oreo beta program ends January 15th, public update could roll by end of January

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Samsung rolled out the first Android 8.0 Oreo update public beta for the Galaxy S8 and S8+ in early November, and it's now been two months since it's been beta-testing the update. The company now says it will close access to the public beta program today, on January 5th (it's your last chance to sign up), as the beta testing will officially end on January 15th. This means one thing: Samsung is done testing and it is preparing to officially release the Android 8.0 Oreo update to the public soon, and as we've heard in previous reports this could even happen by the end of January. Looking back at history, Samsung's Android 8.0 Oreo update actually follows the same schedule as last year's Android 7 Nougat update: five betas and a public roll-out after that. We have reported earlier that a few Samsung Galaxy S8 models have gotten certification over at the Wi-Fi Alliance, a required step before the update rolls out and one more evidence tha

Final Android 8 Oreo is coming to multiple Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ devices

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For a while now, Samsung has been running  a Beta program  for early adopters that wish to test out Android 8 Oreo on their devices before it hits the public in an official update. Last we heard, enlisted  Galaxy S8  and  Galaxy S8+  devices were receiving  their fifth Oreo beta patch , fixing both major and minor bugs. It now seems that Samsung is prepping to roll out the update to a number of its S8 and S8+ phones worldwide. Watchers have spotted multiple versions of the flagship duo getting certifications over at the Wi-Fi Alliance — a non-profit that certifies Wi-Fi products. The models that went through are SM-G950F, SM-G955F, SM-G950FD, SM-G955FD, SM-G950N, SM-G955N, SM-G950X, SM-G955X, SM-G950XN, SM-G955XN, SM-G950XC. Translation: these are the European, Asian (India and Singapore), Korean, and Global versions of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. And this does fall in line with earlier reports that stated the official update would be arriving  by the end of Janua