A new report says OxygenOS and Realme UI are on the verge of discontinuation, and future OnePlus and Realme phones may run ColorOS instead.
According to a report from Smartprix, which cites an industry source, Oppo is combining OnePlus and Realme more closely into its main brand. As part of this, the three Android skins, ColorOS, OxygenOS, and Realme UI, will be reduced to one: ColorOS.
The report also says OnePlus will now focus mainly on India and China. Realme, on the other hand, is stepping back from the Chinese market to focus on markets outside China. In India, OnePlus has already merged its repair and service network with Oppo’s, so separate OnePlus service centers are becoming less common.
The past
OxygenOS is the software OnePlus has used on its phones since 2014. Realme UI is the software Realme has used since it split off from Oppo as its own brand in 2018. ColorOS is Oppo’s own software, used on Oppo phones worldwide.
If you’ve been keeping up, the change has been in progress for a while. In 2021, OnePlus and Oppo agreed to share the same software codebase, combining OxygenOS with ColorOS. We covered this at the time, when OnePlus confirmed OxygenOS would share a codebase with ColorOS after its full merger with Oppo. Since then, ColorOS has taken on more of the development work, even though OnePlus phones still have OxygenOS branding.
Now, that could change too — not just for OnePlus but for Realme too.
Realme UI was already close to ColorOS, so Realme users may not notice much difference. OnePlus users, who are used to OxygenOS’s lighter, simpler interface, will likely see more change.
None of this has been confirmed by OnePlus, Realme, or OPPO yet. It’s also not clear when this change would take effect, or whether it will apply to all markets at once.
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