We went to London to understand a little more about the system OxygenOS 13 – arriving in mid-2023 – which will animate the smartphones of the family OnePlus. But what was the need to go and do an in-depth analysis only on the operating system? Well since the merger between OnePlus and OPPO, which took place in mid-June 2022, the aficionados of the brand have perhaps been a little afraid of losing that character that only OxygenOS has been able to build over the years. Let’s try to understand something.
Let’s try to go straight to the point that it’s useless to go around it anyway. In mid-June 2022 the merger between OPPO and OnePlus and to announce it was Pete Lauthe founder of OnePlus directly on the official forum:
As many of you know, I took on additional responsibilities last year to oversee the product strategy of both OnePlus and OPPO. Meanwhile, we have integrated some of our teams into OPPO to streamline activities and capitalize on shared resources. After seeing the positive impact of these changes, we have decided to further integrate our organization into that of OPPO.
Pete Lau – Chief Product Officer of OPPO / Founder of OnePlus
Someone will ask: but what changed compared to before? Right observation. Now OnePlus can count on more resources (both production and development), an even better hardware development, will be able to make even more economies of scale but above all have a technological transfer from the OPPO brand (such as Supervooc technology).
Among the shared activities there should also have been a unification of the OS which would have seen OxygenOS merge with ColorOS (the current OPPO system present on several OnePlus smartphones). That was the case for a while, but now the cards on the table are definitely changing. This is why the need to meet journalists from all over the world to put some dots on the i explaining what the company’s new vision will be linked to the development of OxygenOS 13 and future.
Gary Chen (head of Software Products di OnePlus) e Crayon Hsieh (Head of OneLab di OnePlus)
At the London round table, in front of journalists, Gary Chen (Head of Software Products of OnePlus) and Crayon Hsieh (Head of OneLab of OnePlus) talked about how the new OxygenOS 13 will have an infrastructural base shared with the OPPO brand and with its ColorOS while all that are the graphic parts and the general user experience will be that typical of OnePlusthe one that made nerds from all over the world fall in love with it when the brand was launched on the market 13.
Indeed, OxygenOS has always been renowned and loved for its punctual updates, clean graphics without artifice and speed of response. In short, one her arrival was a godsend.
To be clear, ColorOS is not “evil” but perhaps it is not good for all those who have always chosen OnePlus for very specific reasons: the price and speed of the operating system which has never had equal.
Furthermore, OnePlus’ relationship with its community has always been very, very intense, in any corner of the world. A few years ago we went to India to find out how OnePlus had become the number one brand in a difficult market like the Indian one. And the answer we gave ourselves was thanks to the community.
The news of OxygenOS 13 they will be different and will try to put the user back at the centre, as was the case in the past. Some of the new features have instead been developed in close collaboration with partners such as Google and Spotify.
From what we saw during the conference, the look and feel of OxygenOS 13 will depart from that of Oppo’s ColorOS to give users personalized experiences.
During the meeting with the press, the team of OnePlus has confirmed its commitment to improving the user experience of its users, providing 4 generations of OxygenOS and 5 years of security patches on smartphones that will be presented starting from 2023.
In short, it seems that for OnePlus the return to the original link with its community is very close and we are very happy with this.
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