OnePlus finally uses ColorOS on mobile phones. To be precise, it should return to ColorOS again. As a customized system with a history of 6 years, hydrogen OS failed to keep up with the pace of the domestic customized Android system in the later period, and finally, the dust settled. At the press conference of the OnePlus 9 series a few days ago, it was officially adopted by ColorOS.
Those fond memories of HydrogenOS
Since the launch of OnePlus, it has been the only brand in the domestic Android camp that focuses on native experience. It provides the strongest hardware platform and at the same time opens the permission to flash the phone. The purpose is to allow users to experience the smoothest and purest Android system.
But at the same time, the domestic custom Android has embarked on the route of imitating iOS. At that time, OnePlus was also embarrassed. It adopted ColorOS from OPPO in the domestic market. Even though ColorOS’s features were not bad at the time, it was matched with “small and small”. OnePlus, which focuses on beauty and fever, is somewhat inconsistent, so designing a set of your own OS has become the best choice for OnePlus.
In May 2015, OnePlus officially launched Hydrogen OS. Its name is derived from the Hydrogen in natural elements. It implies that the experience is as light, concise and smooth as hydrogen, but this does not mean that it is simple, on the contrary, the initial Hydrogen The OS should be the most unique and tasteful of all customized Android.
Its slogan is “Artistic Life Home”. It can also be seen from the UI style that Hydrogen OS has a very design sense. It uses a beautiful low-saturation color system and irregular application icons. It not only strictly follows the design of Google Material Design. Standards, but also added a lot of artistic visual effects.
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What impressed me most is the “Hydrogen Window”, which emphasizes sensible personalization and gives users 33% freedom, thus avoiding the messy feeling of icons randomly scattered on the wallpaper, and every wallpaper built into the system It’s as high-level as artistic painting.
In addition, one plus weather can reflect the design of hydrogen OS. Although this is a tool app, it has a light and smart special effects, concise and abstract colors, and is paired with rich somatosensory interactions, using only dots, lines, The dynamic combination of the surface shows the different weather conditions, and also reflects the hydrogen OS “does not simulate reality, but builds the real” concept.
If Google invented the Material Design design specification, then OnePlus may be the only one that takes it to the extreme. To this day, I still think this is the most useful and best-looking weather app.
Hydrogen OS gradually “oxidized”
But unfortunately, OnePlus did not continue the artistic style of Hydrogen OS. In the next few version updates, the most unacceptable thing was the overthrow of the “Hydrogen Window” design. I don’t know this. What is the reason behind it, but it can be guessed that with the continuous growth of OnePlus mobile phone products, it is a bit difficult to maintain the domestic hydrogen OS and overseas oxygen OS at the same time?
So since then, the hydrogen OS has gradually “oxidized”. Even though the 33% degree of freedom becomes 100%, it has become featureless like those native systems. In my opinion, the original HydrogenOS has withdrawn from the stage of history when the hydrogen window was cancelled.
But the system doesn’t decide everything. Someone will pay for its powerful hardware. I am one of them. When the OnePlus 7 was released, I fell into its superior hardware capabilities and officially became an OnePlus user.
After I got the phone, I stubbornly downloaded the “Hydrogen Window” desktop from the forum, but unfortunately, the hydrogen window that was no longer maintained is not easy to use, and the new features that should be available now are even more extravagant.
Users who have used Hydrogen OS for a long time must feel the same. This system is too concise. Over the years, other Android systems in China have discovered almost all the functions that users need, and have introduced complete life service support, but Hydrogen OS has not improved its features in time, and at the same time stubbornly insists on what it understands as “simplicity”. For example, until now, Hydrogen OS has not had its own mail application.
In fact, the “simplicity” that hydrogen OS insists on does work overseas, because thanks to the support of Google’s service framework, it can make up for the lack of functions of the system itself. But in China, this will definitely spit out as a “rough house”, and with the continuous “out of the circle” of OnePlus mobile phone hardware, its users have become more and more. It can be said that before returning to ColorOS, The main contradiction of OnePlus is the contradiction between the stagnation of the hydrogen OS function and the strong demand of the growing user base.
Therefore, the hydrogen OS has been slowly changing over the past year. Since last year, under the more fierce competition in the domestic mobile phone market, OnePlus has officially returned to the OPPO system, and Heytap has also been introduced into the OnePlus mobile phone. There have also been more advertisements and redundant services. This is not thankful. The original enthusiast users feel that the hydrogen OS is no longer concise, while new users may feel that the functions are a little lacking.
Return to ColorOS is a new starting point
It is inevitable for OnePlus to return to ColorOS. This is not only related to the insufficient performance of Hydrogen OS, but also to the rapid progress of ColorOS.
After the update of the three major versions of ColorOS 6, 7, and 11, both visual design and functional features have reached a very good level and has been ranked first in the country. In addition, the three major brands of OPPO, Realme, and OnePlus have been integrated.
In China, there is no need for OnePlus to develop hydrogen OS separately. There may still be a few enthusiasts or original party-loving native operating systems, but for them Isn’t it better to choose a purer and more extreme oxygen OS?
After going around for 6 years, OnePlus has returned to ColorOS, but unlike the first time, this may mean that OnePlus is no longer that small and beautiful brand. It is indeed a more rational approach to choose to embrace the public.
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