Over the past year, OnePlus has hosted two media roundtables to discuss its software initiatives.
The initial one (in August 2021) presented a plan for a unified operating system that would be available on all OnePlus and OPPO phones outside of China.
The goal was to combine OxygenOS's and ColorOS' greatest features to produce a user experience that was both "reliable and feature-rich" and "quick and smooth."
In a follow-up roundtable (held in February 2022), OnePlus retracted the majority of the assertions.
Instead, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau and head of software Gary Chen revealed that OxygenOS would still be around alongside ColorOS and that OxygenOS 13 would have a "light and clean" UI that OnePlus users would be "comfortable" with.
Given how closely OxygenOS 12 and ColorOS 12 were combined, which makes OxygenOS essentially an offspring of ColorOS with a few more features, that sounded too good to be true.
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According to my internal sources, who corroborated this, OxygenOS no longer had a separate software team; it had been disbanded and absorbed into OPPO.
However, I wanted to reserve judgment until I actually tried the OxygenOS 13 running on Android 13 to see if OnePlus had made an attempt.
I can say that this isn't the case after using OxygenOS 13 on my OnePlus 10 Pro for a little more than a day.
While I haven't used ColorOS 13 yet (it launches on August 18), it's a safe guess that it is nearly identical to OxygenOS 13. The software doesn't feel even somewhat like stock Android.
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