I never imagined I would use OriginOS 6, considering how poor FuntouchOS was. But here I am, with OriginOS 6 review. Let’s do things differently this time. Like so differently. I’ll be talking about the 5 most annoying things about OriginOS 6.
Design inconsistencies
While OriginOS 6 is a lot better now, it’s still poor in some areas. The Origin Island has a tendency to overlap status bar icons, the icons in the folder have a bad corner radius, the media player is placed too high, and there is bad alignment in some areas.
Messy notifications
This has to be the weirdest choice out of all. It’s annoying when notifications are arranged by latest notification showing first. I mean, I don’t really mind this, but it looks very odd when someone messages you consecutively.
Unremovable bloatware
I dare you to remove V-Appstore on vivo devices running OriginOS. “Sure, it will be easy. Just use ADB or Canta to remove it!”, you may say. But you are SO WRONG. No matter what you try to do, you CANNOT remove the V-Appstore.
vivo, it’s OUR phones after we purchase it and we can choose what apps we want in our phones. This is Android, and I bought it so that I can make it catered to MY use. Even iOS lets you completely delete most system apps!
Half-baked features
Having half-baked features just makes me sad. Either give me full features or give me nothing. Here is an example: you can customise how your icons look by selecting icon packs from the Theme Store. Nice. BUT you cannot use icon packs from the Play Store.
Continuing this, the heavily marketed Origin Island is VERY barebones. There are barely any third-party apps compatible with it, making it virtually useless unless you use like 3 of the supported apps. These supported apps don’t even display info in the Origin Island sometimes.
Slow updates
I find the updates very delayed for a flagship X series. You usually get the updates at the END of the month, but the patch is for the current month you are in. My vivo X300 is still on the April patch. It got it on April 30th (trial update). To make things worse, you get these updates first via the trial update (RC build). Users who don’t choose to update via trial, they have to wait for a week or so. Thank GOD the updates aren’t a bugfest.
Conclusion: OriginOS 6 review
I have shared my experience so vivo could possibly improve the software and fix these issues over time. I’m actually excited to see what OriginOS 6.1 brings to the table.
Also read: vivo X300 review: Is this the ultimate compact camera flagship?
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