vivo has officially announced the second iteration of its OriginOS today, bringing in new and customizable card-style elements on the homescreen, an optimized camera UI, and a smart nano music player. In fact, the homescreen gets a significant revamp with more colors, rounder UI elements, and better customizations.

Here’s a quick overview of what’s new on vivo’s ORIGIN OS Ocean.

Customizable Icons and Folders

vivo’s new Origin OS Ocean brings rounder and customizable icons in a card-type layout. The icons can be resized in small, medium, and large sizes, and you can even add custom folders with different colors. Android 12’s Dynamic themeing also makes it to the new OS with the icons and folders picking up the colors of the wallpaper and theme in use.

Origin Cover Lock Screen

vivo’s new lock screen, called officially as the Origin Cover supports quick actions like opening your favorite apps by simply dragging the fingerprint button to the designated app on the lock screen.

Revamped Control Center

vivo OriginOS Ocean gets a redesigned control center that offers more information on the battery, network, and sensitive permissions at a glance.

New Special Oceans Live Wallpaper

Apart from the wallpapers available last year, the vivo OriginOS Ocean gets a new custom wallpaper created in collaboration with Star Trek’s special effects team called the Ocean Live Wallpaper.

Nano Origin Music Player

vivo’s Nano Music player is still available on the OriginOS Ocean iteration. You can control the music player with just an icon on the lock screen allowing for a simple and non-intrusive listening experience.

Nano Notifications

Nano notification gets new optimizations in the Ocean OS with more colors and improvements in the way the small notifications on the icons are displayed. vivo also adds that more apps and services now support nano notifications.

New Caller UI

vivo’s OriginOS Ocean brings a dynamic caller UI. Unsaved and unfamiliar calls and contacts will get a different caller UI than the ones saved as your favorites. This allows you to identify the significance of the call at a glance. The animations while receiving and making calls have also become more bright and colorful.

Emergency Calls

In a first in the industry, vivo’s OriginOS Ocean will use a 3-channel information transmission system for emergency calls. The OS sends out emergency calls via phone call, text message, as well as a flash message (home screen alert). Simultaneously, the location of the caller will be displayed to the emergency contact.

Nano Reading + New Font

vivo’s Nano reading adds breakpoints in a long article with a page-flip-like animation when moving on to the next section. vivo says this enables a real life-like experience to the reader. The OS also comes with Zhu Zhiwei’s custom fonts and other reader optimization options like typesetting, background, and word spacing.

New Multi Window Interaction

The new OS gets an improved multi-window interaction. You can basically swipe up from the bottom left corner of the display to resize an app into a smaller window. You can drag / drop this window for a split-screen configuration.

Faster Payments from Home Screen

Like last year’s OriginOS, the Ocean iteration also comes with one-tap payments via on-screen fingerprint recognition.

New Camera UI with Multi-Functional Focus Ring

The vivo OriginOS Ocean comes with a multi-functional focus ring which can also control the stabilization, focus length, exposure etc. Further, custom swipe gestures can add real-time effects on the viewfinder, enabling users to add quick and accurate effects to your videos.

Memory Slimming + Nano motion

vivo’s memory slimming and memory fusion technology reduces unnecessary processes and saves memory space. vivo says this can increase up to 50% of memory storage. Further, transitions between animations are smoother and more natural than before.

Privacy Features

When using vital services like camera, recording, and position, respective icons pop up on the right side of the status bar. You can slide down those icons for more information. The Origin OS Ocean also comes with a Privacy System wherein you can swipe left from the bottom dock and enter your dedicated private space after verifying with your fingerprint. vivo adds that this private space features multiple layers of security by way of biometric verification as well as hardware-level encryption.

OTHER FEATURES

QUANTUM KIT, much like Huawei’s multi-device collaboration software, supports collaborative editing, cross-device file transfer, and seamless drag and drop transfer among other devices.

Nano Notes get a revamp too, with better fingertip interaction for editing a note or a document.

For more details on the vivo OriginOS Ocean update rollout schedule, check out this article. 

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Vivo launched the OriginOS in China back in November 2020. Currently, it is running a Public Beta program for various devices in the region. However, Vivo’s devices in other regions ship with a version of Funtouch OS. Now, the company has said it has no plans to bring the OriginOS outside China.

In a response to a user Query, the Funtouch OS team for India has responded with this comment. It says that OriginOS is indeed for Vivo devices but it has been launched in China. Further, it says that the company doesn’t have any plans to bring it to other regions including India for now.

This was already evident when Vivo announced its Funtouch OS 11 (based on  Android 11) schedule for India. According to the schedule, it has been releasing updates to the devices. And the latest to receive it is the Vivo V20 SE.

Anyway, it’s clear Vivo intends to maintain two versions of its UI. One for China(OriginOS) and one for the other regions(Funtouch OS). This isn’t the first company to do it. In fact, companies like OnePlus have their own version for China(Hydrogen OS) and Global markets(Oxygen OS).

If you ask me what is the USP of the OriginOS, it’s a UI overlay on the Funtouch OS for flagships and also has a few nifty little features. To know about them exactly, you can look at our coverage on the same.

Finally, Vivo says that it will update us officially if it changes the stance on the OriginOS for Global markets so let’s play the waiting game for now.

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UPDATE: Vivo has revealed the OriginOS update roadmap for its phones in China. You can take a look at the list here.

Vivo has officially unveiled its new UI dubbed OriginOS. The new skin has been completely remodeled from the ground up, making it quite distinct from FuntouchOS. Vivo aims to create a new digital world with OriginOS. We’ll take a look at some of the features of the new custom ROM.

OriginOS promises several enhancements in terms of performance. Vivo says it has enhanced the overall mobile phone experience – from the home screen to the wallpapers and from pictures to the game board; almost all functions have been upgraded. The overall experience is said to be smooth, convenient, and secure.

On the home screen, OriginOS introduced a brand new desktop grid system, bringing the Huarong Grid. It can flexibly and freely show the charm of every element of the desktop, and you can create a variety of imaginative layout combinations through each basic unit.

On the wallpaper, OriginOS brings behavioral wallpaper which is officially called performance wallpaper. Vivo engineers condensed the blooming process of flowers into just a few seconds, making the scenery that is usually scattered in the rush of time extraordinary and full of vitality.

The message notification also saw some improvement as OriginOS brings atomic notifications which can extract key information and can always tell you what you care about at the right time. It covers typical life scenes, and sends reminders in an elegant way, so as not to disturb the user and yet to avoid missing a message.

In terms of operation, OriginOS comes with brand new navigation gestures. There is no need to read complicated guides as the gestures are easy to understand. OriginOS arrives with 26 navigation combinations that can be completed by just clicking and operating, which almost covers mainstream operation methods.

In addition, OriginOS brings an atomic component library which carefully summarizes all atomic components and provides a variety of simple and convenient ways to retrieve them. In addition, dragging icons from the component library and placing them in the application interface can quickly generate small windows to meet multi-task operation scenarios.

The weather widget is also updated to optimize the weather information display form. It also intuitively display the temperature information. With a temperature color card with 90 color values, you can clearly perceive changes in cold and warm at a glance.

Further, OriginOS brings a brand new super card pack. Whether the phone is in the off-screen state or the interface has been navigated away from the home screen, the card pack can be called up with a single swipe. At the same time, the card package can customize the payment types that can be displayed.

For the core system optimization, OriginOS supports the latest Multi-Turbo 5.0 which brings three new technologies – memory fusion, process optimization, and application preloading. In terms of memory integration, Vivo innovatively integrates RAM and ROM through algorithm optimization. Part of the idle ROM space can be called to assume the function of RAM operation, which greatly improves the experience in background multi-application scenarios. In this way, more applications can be opened and run without the phone freezing.

Specifically, on a mobile phone with 8GB of RAM + 128GB of storage, the experience is equivalent to when the memory capacity is equivalent to 11GB, while on a mobile phone with 12GB+256GB, it is equivalent to 15GB of RAM, which greatly increases the availability of equivalent memory.

The second technical process optimization is in-depth control and optimization of system resident processes which reduces the memory usage of 100-200MB system operations. It also reduces system concurrency conflicts, increases concurrency capacity by 20%, and creates more room for mobile application operation.

The third point is application preloading. Through the application of preloading technology, users can intelligently preload applications that are ready to be opened, greatly reducing application startup time. This in turn increases application opening speed and reduces cold starts by 40%.

In addition, in terms of photography, games, and parallel worlds, Vivo’s OriginOS also brings many new features. Check out more of these features from the image below.

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