Samsung’s One UI 8.5 Beta Program is currently live for the Galaxy S25 series in limited countries. Along with several new features, the One UI 8.5 update improves system apps to add new features and enhancements. Samsung Collection app is getting significant upgrades with One UI 8.5.

The Samsung Collection is a special feature on Galaxy phones that lets users save and organize text, images, websites, and other content. Currently, the app is only available in select regions, including China.

One UI 8.5 update reportedly brings several useful changes to Samsung Collection. A new floating bar appears at the bottom of the app to make navigation faster and easier. The Sets grid now looks similar to Gallery albums and Samsung Internet tabs for a cleaner and more modern design. Users can now save multiple clips in one set and rename sets as they like.

Moreover, links are shown in a card-style view with a website thumbnail. By tapping on a link, it opens directly in the browser. It means you don’t need to follow several steps.

Galaxy AI also works better in this update. When saving content, the app can automatically create tags and summaries. These tags appear below the clips and in the Search section to make it simpler to find content later. Even the Search section has also been improved with new categories and a revamped UI.

Users can now listen to saved text with play, pause, forward, and backward controls, as a text-to-speech feature has been added. This is an amazing feature for reviewing long notes.

Although Samsung has not announced plans to release Collection globally, this update makes the app more useful and easier to use. One UI 9, based on Android 17, is expected to bring these new features to more Galaxy devices.

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Google has pushed a new update for one of its most useful AI tools, NotebookLM. This tool already helps users understand and summarize information from their own documents. Now, Google has started integrating NotebookLM with Gemini to make research and writing even easier.

NotebookLM works like a smart notebook, as you can upload your files, and the AI helps explain, summarize, and organize the information. Earlier this year, reports suggested Google was working on bringing NotebookLM into Gemini. That update is now slowly rolling out.

With this new integration, users can ask Gemini to use a specific NotebookLM notebook when answering questions. This means Gemini can give answers based only on your trusted notes and sources.

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You can even select more than one notebook at the same time. The feature also works inside Gems, allowing users to build custom AI assistants around their notebooks.

At the moment, the NotebookLM integration is available only on Gemini’s web version. It does not yet appear in the Gemini app on Android. The rollout is also happening slowly, so not all Google accounts have access yet.

This update is quite useful for those people who often work with NoteBookLM. Instead of switching between apps, you can simply ask Gemini questions and get answers directly from your own research.

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