vivo introduced the X300 collection smartphones in China earlier this week and we acquired to have a fast have a look at the X300 and X300 Professional (no Extremely but), full with benchmarks and a few on-location digicam samples. The overview items are on their approach to the workplace for a few of our extra standardized testing, however within the meantime we figured we might contact upon one of many different main developments from the corporate this 12 months – OriginOS 6 goes international.

Up till now, vivo smartphones meant for his or her dwelling market have been the one ones operating OriginOS, whereas the worldwide ones have been on a special software program department referred to as FuntouchOS. We’ve got typically been essential of Funtouch due to its considerably dated feel and appear, and grey importing a telephone with the in any other case superior Origin meant coping with China-specific pre-installed apps, sure limitations with fee/banking software program, and different typically unforeseeable roadblocks. Effectively, vivo is placing an finish to that and OriginOS will now be the UI to run the entire future fashions – Chinese language and international ones.

Origin Island

This new model that marks the convergence of the 2 software program branches is v.6 – vivo might have carried out the Apple factor and gone with a 12 months label, or modified issues up with the numerals someway to mark the event, however as a substitute they selected to simply increment the OriginOS 5 they’d in China. Works for us.

New Management Middle styling

Whereas the brand new X300 fashions would be the first besides OriginOS 6 out of the field (and people usually are not right here but), we acquired an early have a look at the brand new OS on a global X200 Professional that vivo seeded particularly to us. It is a significant evolution from the OriginOS 5 we acquired to see on the Chinese language vivos we had earlier than (one other X200 Professional and the reigning X200 Extremely), nevertheless it’s additionally a significant change coming from a FuntouchOS 15 perspective (what was beforehand operating on the X200 Professional), which is what we might be extra keen on.

The vivo advertising and marketing supplies promise that OriginOS is ‘redefining the way in which individuals expertise their digital world’ and mentions esoteric ideas like stability, readability, consolation, and whatnot. In addition they underscore how they’ve basically reengineered Android to make higher use of sources and enhance velocity and battery life.

Lockscreen Flip Playing cards

There’s the Extremely-Core computing which allocates sources to processes in what vivo insists is a greater means than what Android can do, reaching as much as 18.5% sooner app chilly begins and 10.5% extra steady body charges throughout scrolling. Reminiscence Fusion accelerates loading speeds in heavy-load eventualities – the instance vivo provides is a 106% velocity increase in opening a 5,000-image picture album that now hundreds in seconds. 47 apps may be stored alive within the background too. Then there’s the Twin Rendering Structure, which is able to get you animation rendering effectivity enhance as much as 35% and body charge stability enhancements by as much as 11%.

Extra Origin Island

We do not doubt that there is a layer of reality behind all that, it is simply that they are speaking of stuff that is tough to quantify outdoors of very particular laboratory situations. To not point out that all of it sounds type of like that Retro Encabulator if you recognize what we imply.

Shifting on to some extra tangible – or, fairly, visible – enhancements. vivo has put in further effort into OriginOS’s animations, making them really feel extra responsive, due to results like bounciness, blur transitions, and mirroring consumer gesture velocity. It is exhausting to place your finger on it, however the telephone does really feel very pure in the way in which it reacts to your enter – extra so than what the FuntouchOS 15 would offer you.

Personal House is hidden behind a left swipe on the dock

vivo can also be massive on smoothness on this replace and boasts a contact response velocity enhance of 41% – 26% higher than opponents too! (We don’t know what they’re measuring and the way, clearly.) Both means, they promise a “smooth-as-new” expertise for flagship fashions for five years. The year-old X200 Professional certain does really feel smooth-as-new.

OriginOS 6

OriginOS 6 brings the way in which nicer Origin visuals to the worldwide vivos, up till now pressured to make use of a reasonably dated Funtouch UI. Which means a touched up settings menu, extra up to date notification shade/management middle implementation, a personalized font, and a minimum of 2800 redesigned symbols.

Lockscreen • Homescreen • Giant folders

The management middle might be one of many greater adjustments in case you’re coming from Funtouch, and it is one of the crucial apparent autos for the brand new blur results and transitions (Gradient Blur they name it). Maybe the short settings ‘rim gentle’ (the button border impact) is a bit an excessive amount of just like the iOS 26 design, however to illustrate that the designers arrived there independently and it is all simply the place UI traits are headed.

Notifications • Fast settings

Flip playing cards is an OriginOS 6 lockscreen function the place you’ll be able to choose as much as 4 pictures from the gallery and have the telephone alternate between them as you tilt the telephone sideways – it is cooler than only one single lockscreen wallpaper, in all probability. It’s, certainly, cool how the clock transitions easily forwards and backwards between its AoD form and place to that of the lockscreen.

Flip playing cards

Acquainted to these having seen latest OriginOS iterations, however fully new to former FuntouchOS customers is the Origin Island. The dynamic black cloud round your entrance digicam exhibits contextual standing data for clocks and music gamers and whatnot, and likewise transforms into an actionable space so that you can drop stuff in some copy-and-paste eventualities.

Origin Island

Positive sufficient, there’s an array of AI-based options. An AI writing software could assist along with your author’s block and supply proofreading, summarization and the lot. AI Captions is a system-level utility for speech-to-text conversion and real-time transcription and translation. There’s additionally a doc editor with PDF and Phrase doc help and its personal set of AI smarts.

AI Writing • AI Transcribe • AI Captions

There’s now a vivo Connection Middle, which is a type of an OriginOS 6 hub for enabling varied connectivity choices in your vivo. Hyperlink to PC is on the market with display mirroring, file switch, and job handoff. You can too do one-tap transfers with different vivos and even iPhones, although you’d want to put in vivo’s EasyShare on the opposite telephone – it would take just a few extra faucets the primary time you do it.

Connection Middle

A Personal House performance can also be a part of OriginOS 6 – we did not get that on the most recent Funtouch and it wasn’t there on OriginOS 5 both. It is the standard separate space the place you’ll be able to preserve delicate knowledge away from prying eyes. You can too have two situations of the identical social app so you’ll be able to separate enterprise from private use.

Personal House

Battery life is one other space the place vivo has made some strides with OriginOS 6. The corporate’s inner lab outcomes report a 30mA discount of background app consumption for many customers, as much as 90mA for the highest 1% of heavy customers. In addition they declare a 10-20% enchancment in CPU effectivity, which extends battery life by half-hour beneath sure situations (once more, these aren’t clear metrics).

Battery settings

All issues thought-about, we’re actually enthusiastic about OriginOS changing Funtouch OS for worldwide variants of vivo smartphones. The earlier UI was outdated and simply too plain, whereas OriginOS 6 brings loads of eye sweet and fluidity on the identical time, and the additional options are additionally prone to be appreciated by a large consumer base.

When is OriginOS 6 coming to my telephone?

OriginOS can be coming pre-installed on future vivo smartphones – World and worldwide ones. On the Chinese language launch occasion, vivo confirmed a fairly complete launch schedule for updating current telephones to OriginOS 6, however that applies to their Chinese language variations. We’ll be seeking to collect data on the worldwide variant’s replace timeline and we’ll publish it right here as quickly as we have now it.