Goodbye Funtouch OS! Vivo X300 and iQOO 15 likely to debut with Origin OS 6 in India: All you need to know
Vivo and iQOO phones are finally shifting from Funtouch OS in India to Android 16-based Origin OS 6. While the change has been rumored for the past couple of months, the official FunTouch OS X page has been renamed to Origin OS, suggesting that the UI would soon replace FunTouch OS in the Indian market.
Notably, Vivo and iQOO devices currently ship with Origin OS in China and use Funtouch OS in global markets like India. Origin OS is usually seen as more refined, customizable, and feature-rich compared to Funtouch OS. It remains to be seen if the new UI will also come with ads and bloatware like FunTouch OS.
Vivo has also confirmed that Origin OS 6 will launch in China at the company’s Vivo Developer Conference on October 10, 2025. It is said to come with a “Comfort Engineering” design philosophy that will involve new lighting and shadow effects and some AI-based upgrades like AI natural conversation and Xiao V Memory 2.0.
Origin OS 6 is first expected to make its debut with the Vivo X300 series and iQOO 15 when the phones launch in the Chinese market in October. However, there is no clear timeline yet on when Origin OS 6 will make its India debut.
iQOO 15: What to expect?
If leaks are to be believed, the iQOO 15 is expected to come with a 6.8-inch 2K LTPO AMOLED display with 6,000 nits of peak brightness and a 165Hz refresh rate.
The phone is expected to be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, along with a dedicated gaming chip. It could also employ an 8K vapor cooling chamber to keep temperatures in check and improve gaming performance. There could be support for LPDDR5x RAM and UFS 4.1 storage on the iQOO 15, similar to its predecessor.
On the optics front, the iQOO 15 could come with a 50MP triple camera setup, with the periscope lens supporting 3x optical zoom. The front camera could be a 32MP shooter.
The iQOO flagship could come with a 7,000mAh battery with support for 100W of wired fast charging. The phone could also come with a color-changing rear panel and a metallic frame with integrated RGB lights.
