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Most of our readers are in the US and haven't had a chance to play with too many Chinese phones, but there's a sort of "flavor" that most Asian-focused brands apply to their software which is quite different from what we're used to here in the States. Sure, things like icons aren’t the same between ColorOS and OxygenOS (I can’t actually tell what OnePlus is using, the icon menu crashes every time I open it), but the Oppofication of OnePlus's once-good Android software is basically complete, and I am not a fan. With the software merger happening, I wanted to be optimistic, so I waited, hoping that the early beta impressions for OxygenOS 12 were based on incomplete data, that a stable release would land, and I’d see it all come together. Still, at the time I noted that ColorOS still felt “wrong” to me in a way many Chinese-market-first software skins do, with OnePlus’s OxygenOS standing out as an exception.
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In fact, I actually liked a couple of specific software details for what they seemed to say about the company’s development strategy.
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I should point out that the first time I tried the ColorOS 12 beta, I didn’t hate it. It’s not like OnePlus would just throw away years of branding, features, design, and recognition to entirely adopt someone else’s software at the drop of a hat, right? Guess again. After all, in the Android enthusiast community, the company was known and praised for its software for years. But I thought we might see OnePlus make its own changes on top to bring things back a little. We all knew OPPO's divisive ColorOS was the base that both companies would be working from they explicitly said as much.
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When the first OxygenOS 12 betas landed, and Karandeep Singh warned us that it was “ColorOS in all but name,” I had hoped (without any real evidence) that this was just a transitory step in the software merger. I tried as long as I could to refrain from coming to such a harsh judgment.
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