Vivo has announced its new Android-based operating system at its annual developer conference in China. Original OS is a successor to Fantouch OS and has a complete design overlay that prefers widgets, arranged in a grid-like layout. Widgets can update themselves with notifications called “nano alerts”.
“Origin OS Sunny Genesis smartphones centers around three boundaries based on consumer demand: design, simplicity and convenience,” Vivo said in a statement. “Origin smartphones re-emerge familiar features with exciting new designs to create the ultimate smartphone experience.”
Of all the skinned versions of Android out there, Vivo’s Funtuch OS has long been one of the most obvious on iOS with the same instructional design, color palette and use of transparency. The tile-based approach to Original OS Sunny widgets is not a million miles away from Apple’s release of iOS 14 this year, although it wasn’t exactly a unique design. For its part, Vivo says it is inspired by Klotsky’s Chinese variant sliding block puzzles, Huarong Dao.
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Vivo also claims that the Originos will be less resource-intensive than the RAM Touch, with lower RAM requirements. We’ll have to test for ourselves once it’s rolled out, but there’s little information on that – Vivo hasn’t said anything about the release date. However, the company did show a mockup of the OS running on its current X50 flagship phone (above).
