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Samsung has already begun testing the Galaxy S9 and S9+ in the US and South Korea with a software preview of Android 9.0 Pie on the phones along with Samsung's One UI as part of the deal. Since then, the Samsung Galaxy Note9 has seen registration for the beta in the United States but hadn't yet pushed the firmware until today. As of today, Samsung has opened registrations and has begun pushing the beta firmware OTA for the Samsung Galaxy Note9 in India and Germany, as well as finally began pushing the OTA to those who registered on Samsung + app in the United States. The update weighs in at around 1,532 MB for Germany and about 1,681 MB for the US-based Note. Note that only the US Unlocked variant of the Note9 is eligible for the beta at this time. For those in India and Germany, you'll need to sign up in the Samsung Members app as soon as possible since Samsung only allows a certain number of participants in its beta programs. The new beta brings support for Unicode...

At its developer conference earlier this week, Samsung announced that the Android Pie software update  for its flagships will come with One UI,  a redesigned skin that focuses on simplification and ease of use. The company announced that the first public beta build of its Android Pie update with One UI was going to be available for the Galaxy S9, S9+ and Note9 by the  end of this month. If that timeline was too vague for your taste, Samsung's German arm has come to the rescue today. Through a support chat, a German publication was able to find out exactly when the beta builds will be out - on November 15. This is the date for Germany, but since the beta program will also be available in the US and South Korea, the release time frame might be slightly different for those countries. This does come straight from Samsung support staff, but those people aren't always the best informed, so don't take the date for granted just yet. Either way, it looks like you'll be a...