Hot off of releasing Android 12L final month, Samsung is delivery its first completed builds of Android 13 this week. The Galaxy S22 (common, Plus, and Ultra) is the primary cellphone to get the replace, with carriers like Verizon itemizing the replace as obtainable.

Samsung’s Android 12L launch in September arrived six months after the official launch on foldables and tablets, and this Android 13 launch represents a two-month wait from the Google launch. Part of the rationale for the fast turnaround is perhaps that Android 13 is a really small launch, with solely issues like a notification permission and a brand new media participant to level to as user-facing options. The Galaxy S22 by no means bought Android 12L, so that is its first main OS replace.

Samsung’s Android 13 pores and skin is known as “One UI 5,” and the corporate detailed a few of its options earlier this month. Samsung’s headline additions are “Bixby Text Call,” which helps you to reply a name and communicate to the caller by text-to-speech. A “Routines” characteristic can mechanically set off capabilities based mostly on the time of day. You can set a video as your background wallpaper, and you’ll stack widgets on prime of one another to swipe by them.

Android 13 is simply hitting the S22 for now. 9to5Google noticed a timeline Samsung despatched to Korean customers detailing the Korean releases of Android 13 for numerous fashions. Korean timelines aren’t at all times the identical as US schedules, however they’re often shut. That timeline has the S20, S21, Fold/Flip 3, and Fold/Flip 4 being up to date in November, with older and midrange gadgets slipping to December and January.