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Samsung’s One UI 2.5 now supports the latest emojis. The latest One UI 2.5 is now available for the Galaxy Note 20 series, S20 series, Note 10 series, S10 series, and few more smartphones from Samsung.

Alongside 116 brand new emojis, this update includes a sizable number of design changes, with many of these being new gender-neutral designs for previously-released people emojis.

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Samsung is the only Android company to ship phones using its own custom emoji font that differs from the emoji set provided by Google. Other Android phones are still using emojis from Google unless the phone is a Samsung.

Samsung emojis are glossier and sometimes more detailed than those from Google. Some apps have their own custom emoji designs, including Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp.

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Above you can check all the new emojis within Samsung One UI 2.5. These new emojis in One UI 2.5 are based on Emoji 13.0. Furthermore, nearly a thousand previously released emojis have had their designs updated in One UI 2.5.

A significant proportion of these changes are due to gender-inclusive designs being used where emojis don’t specify a gender. Previous Samsung One UI versions displayed non-gender-specifying using either the 👨 Man or (more often than not) the 👩 Woman variant.

Following this update, Samsung’s human emojis follow the same gender-based color pattern as Google and Twitter: purple for the 👩 Woman, orange for gender-neutral 🧑 Person, and blue for the 👨 Man emojis.

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🆕 NEW

Samsung’s One UI 2.5 includes two new smiley emojis and a single new gesture emoji, namely Smiling Face with Tear, Disguised Face, and Pinched Fingers. As with all gesture emojis on Samsung devices[4], Pinched Fingers supports skin tone modifiers. Also included in One UI 2.5 are two new anatomy-based emojis, Anatomical Heart, and a pair of Lungs.

There are eight new people emojis introduced in this update, all with skin tone support bar the abstracted People Hugging (as per Unicode’s recommendation). Check the image on Emojipedia.

  1. Ninja
  2. 🤵‍♂️ Man in Tuxedo[5]
  3. 🤵‍♀️ Woman in Tuxedo
  4. 👰‍♂️ Man with Veil
  5. 👰‍♀️ Woman with Veil[6]
  6. 👩‍🍼 Woman Feeding Baby
  7. 👨‍🍼 Man Feeding Baby
  8. 🧑‍🍼 Person Feeding Baby
  9. 🧑‍🎄 Mx Claus
  10. People Hugging

There are 12 new animal emojis in One UI 2.5, including the ZWJ sequence 🐈‍⬛ Black Cat and 🐻‍❄️ Polar Bear emojis. Check the image on Emojipedia.

  1. 🐈‍⬛ Black Cat
  2. Bison
  3. Mammoth
  4. Beaver
  5. 🐻‍❄️ Polar Bear
  6. Dodo
  7. Feather
  8. Seal
  9. Beetle
  10. Cockroach
  11. Fly
  12. Worm

There are eight new food and drink emojis, including the popular Bubble Tea emoji. Check the image on Emojipedia.

  1. Blueberries
  2. Olive
  3. Bell Pepper
  4. Flatbread
  5. Tamale
  6. Fondue
  7. Teapot
  8. Bubble Tea

The remaining new emojis included in One UI 2.5 can be placed within the broad categories of nature, objects, and symbols. Amongst these are a Piñata, a Boomerang, and the 🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Flag

  1. 🪴 Potted Plant
  2. 🪨 Rock
  3. 🪵 Wood
  4. 🛖 Hut
  5. 🛻 Pickup Truck
  6. 🛼 Roller Skate
  7. 🪄 Magic Wand
  8. 🪅 Piñata
  9. 🪆 Nesting Dolls
  10. 🪡 Sewing Needle
  11. 🪢 Knot
  12. 🩴 Thong Sandal
  13. 🪖 Military Helmet
  14. 🪗 Accordion
  15. 🪘 Long Drum
  16. 🪙 Coin
  17. 🪃 Boomerang
  18. 🪚 Carpentry Saw
  19. 🪛 Screwdriver
  20. 🪝 Hook
  21. 🪜 Ladder
  22. 🛗 Elevator
  23. 🪞 Mirror
  24. 🪟 Window
  25. 🪠 Plunger
  26. 🪤 Mouse Trap
  27. 🪣 Bucket
  28. 🪥 Toothbrush
  29. 🪦 Headstone
  30. 🪧 Placard
  31. 🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Flag

🆙 CHANGED

🤣 Rolling on the Floor Laughing has a bigger open-mouthed smile and larger tears of joy.

🤤 Drooling Face has had the placement of its eyes and eyebrows modified.

🧐 Face with Monocle now has its mouth slightly open and has thicker eyebrows contorted in a new fashion.

😵 Dizzy Face has had its eyebrows inverted, with its X-shaped eyes now closer together.

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😖 Confounded Face has had its pained mouth and eyes more closely crunched together.

👰 Person With Veil has a new gender-inclusive appearance, making way for the new gender-specific options in this release.

🤵 Person in Tuxedo has a new gender-inclusive appearance, making way for the new gender-specific options in this release.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 People Holding Hands now has both gender neutral individuals wearing orange instead of green.

🦸‍♀️ Woman Superhero’s costume now has a purple cape and mask, echoing the purple used for other 👩 Woman emojis within the set.

👩🏼‍🦱 Woman: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Curly Hair now has dark blond hair, matching other emojis using this skin tone within the set.

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👪 Family now displays two gender neutral adults and one gender neutral 🧒 Child.

🤼 People Wrestling now features two non-gender-specific people both wearing orange.[7]

💑 Couple with Heart now displays two gender-neutral people instead of a 👩 Woman and 👨 Man.

👆 INPUT
All 116 new emoji designs are accessible via the latest version of the Samsung emoji keyboard. When using the Samsung emoji keyboard, all three gender options are displayed upfront in the keyboard for all people emojis. This is distinct from the Google Gboard keyboard, where only the gender-neutral designs are shown initially and gender-specific variants can be accessed by pressing and holding down on a specific gender-neutral emoji. Check the image on Emojipedia.

Users are also able to access skin tone variants of 🤝 Handshake and the three versions of 👯 People with Bunny Ears. These skin tone options are not currently recommended for general Interchange (RGI) by Unicode. Check on Emojipedia.

There is an issue with the 👪 Family emoji, however. Despite the 👪 Family design being updated to display gender-neutral individuals, the non-RGI skin tone modifier versions of this emoji were not updated in the same way.

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Samsung is expanding its AI home appliance care to provide real-time phone alerts and auto repair booking. The company today announced that it is enhancing the home appliance subscription care business with the “AI Proactive Care Notification” service.

The new talk of the town, the AI Proactive Care Notification service, aims to notify customers by phone when anomalies are detected in subscribed Samsung home appliance products and arrange on-site repair bookings.

Samsung’s AI Proactive Care Notification service leverages AI to analyze data collected by the remote diagnostics system. It then sends push notifications to users when anomalies are detected, followed by a phone call to explain the diagnosis.

The “AI Proactive Care Notification,” handled by Samsung Service’s dedicated consultants, provides:

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Samsung has introduced this service for 10 subscribed product categories: ACs, washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, kimchi refrigerators, dishwashers, induction cooktops, ovens, robot vacuums, and air dressers.

It can diagnose 24 different symptoms, including:

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Interestingly, the company offers the “AI Proactive Care Notification” service to subscription care customers at no additional cost, with plans to expand the range of supported products and detectable symptoms in the future.

“AI Subscription Club” customers also receive a “Monthly Care Report” once a month, detailing:

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Samsung’s Ocean Mode camera feature in the Galaxy S24 Ultra just hit a major milestone in marine conservation. The company announced that its “Coral in Focus” has achieved remarkable results over the past year.

Thanks to the Ocean Mode in Galaxy S24 Ultra, Samsung, in collaboration with SeaTrees, has restored 10,705 square meters of coral reefs. The company highlights that it’s an area equivalent to 25 basketball courts.

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It’s worth noting that the Korean tech giant has tailored an Ocean Mode feature. It is optimized for underwater photography of coral reefs. At present, the feature is available on Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra flagship.

This mode has been provided to local activity groups working in major coral reef habitats, including Florida, USA; Bali, Indonesia; and Viti Levu, Fiji. These groups use phones to capture coral reefs to simplify monitoring and restoration.

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Canalys just published its analysis on the India smartphone market in Q1 2025. The overall smartphone shipments declined 8% year on year in early 2025, with the country shipping 32.4 million smartphones.

Vivo led the smartphone market, beating Samsung in Q1 2025 in India. Xiaomi, Oppo, and Realme retained their third, fourth, and fifth ranks on the chart. The remaining brands shipped 8.9 million devices, totalling a 27% market share.

Vivo surpassed Samsung by selling 7 million units in Q1 2025. The company has recorded an annual growth of 13%, pushing the overall market share to 22% in 2025 from 18% in 2024.

Samsung’s market in India declined 23% year on year. The company shipped 5.1 million phones, recording a 16% market share, while a negative growth of 23% brought it to 16% from 19% in 2024.

Xiaomi followed with 4.0 million units, securing third place with a 12% market share. OPPO (excluding OnePlus) and realme shipped 3.9 million and 3.5 million units, respectively.

“In Q1 2025, vivo extended its lead with a balanced portfolio and sharp channel execution” – Canalys highlights.

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Despite starting the quarter with elevated inventory and a 23% year-on-year drop in total shipments, Samsung witnessed 5% annual growth in its Galaxy S25 series versus S24 in Q1 2024, driven by premium momentum and conversational AI features.

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Samsung could soon deploy hologram tech to ramp up 2.5D chip packaging yield. The company’s DS Division has recently completed qualification tests for hologram equipment from Cubicsell on its mass production line.

Optical equipment firm Cubicsell will soon supply the hologram equipment to be deployed at the Samsung Cheonan facility; it’s the fabrication facility where the company has its 2.5D packaging line for chip inspection.

A report suggests that Samsung adopted hologram technology to meet the rising demand for 2.5D packaging. Holograms are 3D images created with light, which allow for depth analysis from various angles, unlike photographs.

Modern semiconductor products combine multiple chips for enhanced functionality, such as Nvidia’s AI chip “Blackwell,” which integrates a GPU and multiple high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips on a single substrate.

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A key semiconductor equipment industry source stated, “Samsung is making various attempts to improve foundry front-end and packaging yields, particularly focusing on capturing the high-performance chip market in China.”

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It’s not the first non-premium phone that’s getting the new OS pre-installed. Samsung has previously launched a few entry-level models that get the latest Android 15-based One UI 7 out of the box, while flagship owners are still waiting.

Samsung has been working to optimize Android 15 for Galaxy devices since December 2024. The company has launched the Open Beta in early December for the Galaxy S24 series, which expanded in March to foldables and the S23 series.

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On the flip side, the mid-range Galaxy M56 will be receiving major upgrades up to Android 21. Security updates are also promised to be delivered by up to October 2030, which could go even beyond if Samsung revises the support.

While the S21 and S22 series were released years ago, they are still better than Samsung’s 2025 mid-ranger. Consumers have paid five times extra money, and the support isn’t what they deserve at this point, in the mid-range, getting valued.

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