Recently, I have done a lot of domestic mobile phone system functions and pre-installed App experience comparison, in fact, the mobile phone's system function experience, advertising and other issues, to a large extent related to the purity of the system itself. Therefore, this time I have prepared a comparison of the system purity of the six mainstream brand models of Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo (iQOO), Honor, and Meizu.
Test model:
华为Mate 60 Pro——HarmonyOS 4.2
小米14 Pro——HyperOS 1.0
OPPO Find X7——ColorOS 14.0
iQOO 12——OriginOS 4.0
荣耀Magic6 Pro——MagicOS 8.0
魅族21 Pro——Flyme 10.24
These six models are the main flagships of each company, and all of them have been upgraded to the latest system version, which can fully reflect the system experience of each mobile phone, and will be referred to as the brand or system name in this article. Restore the factory settings before the test, and the activation process is all based on the default configuration, without any selection, and do not actively install any third-party apps. Without further ado, let's see the results.
The expansion of storage is actually the hidden culprit
Once you're in the system, let's take a look at the initial size of each system and the memory footprint of the pre-installed applications. After all, everyone has already discovered that the 512GB new mobile phone that you just bought, when you open it, the actual usability may only be more than 400GB, which in addition to the mobile phone system to occupy a part of the space, there is also a culprit is the software that comes with the mobile phone factory.
Here I directly list the table, you can clearly and intuitively see the storage usage of major systems and pre-installed applications:
Judging from the total occupancy, the initial occupation of each family is not too large, and the most occupied are Honor and OPPO. Glory mainly occupies 24.73GB of system files, plus other data such as cache necessary for system operation, directly more than 34GB, compared with several other brands, it seems that GloryMagicOS is currently the most bloated.
In addition to Honor, the system files and other data that take up the largest are Xiaomi, vivo and OPPO, reaching 28GB, 26GB and 24.6GB respectively.
Among them, the file size of the Xiaomi system was originally the smallest, but the other data occupation reached 19.05GB, which is more than twice that of several other systems. This is mainly due to the fact that among other data, there is also a 6GB memory expansion, that is, the phone system will automatically allocate 6GB of storage space for running memory.
In addition to Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo also have 4GB memory expansion turned on by default, and the Honor memory expansion reaches 8GB, Huawei does not provide memory expansion, Meizu is off by default, and it needs to be turned on manually.
If you don't want memory expansion, Xiaomi, OPPO, and vivo can all be manually turned off, and the corresponding storage space can basically be released after the phone is restarted, but Honor has not found a switch that can turn off this function.
It should be noted that at present, major mobile phone manufacturers, especially flagship models, have begun to add device-side AI models, and in order to have a better experience, their requirements for mobile phone storage are correspondingly higher. Perhaps this is also the reason why some mobile phones will still enable memory expansion by default when they reach 16GB of built-in memory.
If you have a large demand for large AI models, do not disable the memory extension, otherwise you can manually disable the function.
In addition to system data,Another large amount of storage occupation is pre-installed applications,From the perspective of the application storage occupied by the mobile phone,Xiaomi's application occupation seems to be the least,It's only 200MBInter,But check the specific occupation of the application,Far more than that,It is speculated that the calculation method of the system may be different,Some application occupation data may be recorded in other data,So this part will be removed from Xiaomi for comparison。
In terms of several other companies, the largest application occupation is OPPO, which is also the reason why its total occupation is second only to Honor. In contrast, Meizu has the smallest application usage data, and the other gaps are not large.
Huawei has the most pre-installed apps
OPPO's app data occupies the most, so does this mean that it also has the most pre-installed apps? Here is a pull-out of the number of pre-installed apps of six mobile phones, including the system's own apps and third-party apps, let's take a look at the number of apps respectively:
From this table, you can clearly reflect the number of factory pre-installed apps in each house, Huawei has the most, followed by glory, and then vivo, Xiaomi, OPPO, whether it is a system application or a third-party application, Meizu is the one with the least pre-installed. Subdivided into system applications, Xiaomi, OPPO, and vivo are close to each other, and they are quite restrained.
In addition to the apps that have been pre-installed, Huawei and Honor are also the only two of these six mobile phones that also have "hidden pre-installed", that is, there is a "Hot Recommendation" folder on the desktop, in which these apps are not pre-installed on the phone, but provide a quick download entrance, click to install immediately. In this way, Huawei and Honor mobile phones themselves have the most pre-installed apps, plus these hidden pre-installed, there are even more.
Huawei and Honor's "Hidden Pre-Installed" (Top Picks)
Combined with the system occupation mentioned above, it can be found that the large number of pre-installed applications and the expansion of memory should be the reason for the "bloated" Honor system. And OPPO is not the largest number of applications,In the case of memory expansion is not too large,The system occupation is second only to Honor,It also reflects the problem of its system size is too large to a certain extent。
In contrast, Huawei has more pre-installed applications, but the total system occupation is the smallest, on the one hand, because Huawei does not occupy storage space for memory expansion, and on the other hand, it also comes from the advantage of the smaller size of the HarmonyOS system itself. If we can further reduce pre-installation and advertising on this basis, the pure experience advantage of the HarmonyOS system will obviously be greater than now.
Of course, including some system apps, third-party apps and "hidden pre-installed" can be uninstalled manually. The first thing many people do after getting their hands on a new machine is to delete these software. Then here we have an extra round, and after deleting all the things that can be deleted, let's see how many non-removable applications are left, and look at the table directly:
How did the negative screen become the hardest hit area?
In addition to the system desktop will affect the experience due to pre-installed applications and too many ads, there is also a hard-hit area that is affected by advertisements and various information flows, that is, the negative screen.
Originally, the negative screen provided a variety of quick entrances, and express information, health data, etc. can also be seen at a glance here. However, sometimes the system will also open various recommended information by default, which looks disorganized, but affects the experience, making the original shortcut entry no longer fast.
In contrast, this link Meizu is still the best in purity, and there is no promotion at all, it is all express delivery, calendar, scanning code and other quick widgets, which look very concise and capable. followed by Xiaomi,Except for a recommendation card at the bottom,There is no other promotion,It's done very restrained。
OPPO, Honor and Huawei can be counted as the third echelon, with only a small amount of application promotion, and the impact on the quick component is not too great. In contrast, Huawei is the most complex of the three minus screens, and there is also a discovery page that recommends various widgets. Judging from the design of this kind of function, Huawei seems to have a tendency to be "extremely complicated", which is really the opposite of minimalism.
From left to right, Meizu, Huawei, and vivo's negative screen
On the contrary, vivo is a bit surprising, originally OriginOS was known for its design, and its various functional widgets on the negative screen were also designed in a unique style. I thought it would be over here, but I didn't expect it to continue to decline, and the negative screen instantly became "Today's headlines", and all kinds of bells and whistles made the overall experience greatly reduced. Even if you want to implant information, you hope to be a little restrained, instead of directly occupying the negative screen in the form of a waterfall.
In fact,Mobile phone manufacturers have added a lot of third-party applications in the system、Push advertising has long become a tradition,Earlier, Meizu Zhitu engaged in a pure 30 system,But in less than a year, the official announced the cessation of this layout,It is not difficult to see how difficult it is from this point,Pure as Meizu can't really do no ads、No pre-installation、No push。
We don't expect all manufacturers to achieve three zeros, but at least don't affect the experience because of too much pre-installation, push, etc. Fortunately, it can be seen that mobile phone manufacturers have not completely ignored the voices of users, and Xiaomi has previously started the razor program. For users, I only hope that the purity of the system will not just stay on the slogan, and more manufacturers can roll up in this area in action and give the choice to the user.