{"id":94849,"date":"2025-05-12T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94849\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:15:10","slug":"samsung-galaxy-watch-8-may-reportedly-adopt-galaxy-watch-ultra-like-squircle-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94849\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 May Reportedly Adopt Galaxy Watch Ultra-Like \u2018Squircle\u2019 Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra<\/a> debuted last year as the company’s flagship new smartwatch sporting a radical new design. The company is now said to implement it across its next generation watch lineup. According to a report, a note in the animation files of the leaked One UI 8 Watch suggests that the purported Galaxy Watch 8<\/a> series may ditch the current circular shape and have a \u201csquircle\u201d design instead. Further, the Classic model is reported to get a new Quick button, bringing it to par with Samsung’s top-end Watch Ultra.<\/p>\n

Change in Design of Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Series<\/p>\n

Android Authority reports<\/a> that the design change of the purported Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 series was discovered in the files which are part of the One UI 8 Watch build that was recently leaked. The unreleased firmware mentions two smartwatches with codenames \u201cfresh8\u201d and \u201cwise8\u201d which are speculated to reference the Galaxy Watch 8 and Galaxy Watch 8 Classic<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n

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The accompanying graphics in the animation files reveals an appearance akin to the Galaxy Watch Ultra, with both watches sporting a circular display and a square dial \u2014 a design popularly known as a squircle.<\/p>\n

While other aspects of the Galaxy Watch 8 are expected to remain unchanged, that may not be the case for the Classic model. As per the report, the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic may get an additional button as part of a three-button setup. Further, it may also benefit from stronger vibrations, courtesy of extended vibration pattern support similar to the flagship Ultra smartwatch.<\/p>\n

The standard Samsung<\/a> Galaxy Watch 8 is said to be offered in \u201csmall\u201d and \u201clarge\u201d sizes bearing the model numbers SM-L32 and SM-L33, respectively, although their exact dimensions remain unknown. Meanwhile, only a single SM-L50 variant of the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic could be spotted in the leaked One UI 8 Watch build.<\/p>\n

This builds upon several features discovered in the leaked firmware build, including a battery protection feature, new charging animation, a Shortcuts app, support for Galaxy AI-powered Now Bar<\/a>, and an Antioxidant Index feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra debuted last year as the company’s flagship new smartwatch sporting a radical new design.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3160],"tags":[1685,44528,542,44527,44526,9843,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-94849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-one-ui-8-watch","10":"tag-samsung","11":"tag-samsung-galaxy-watch-8-classic","12":"tag-samsung-galaxy-watch-8-classic-squircle-design-change-ultra-one-ui-8-leak-report-samsung-galaxy-watch-8","13":"tag-samsung-galaxy-watch-ultra","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114493871008640144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}