Evolution of Operating Systems in Smartphones — The smartphone OS landscape has evolved through four clear phases—pre‑2007 RTOS era, post‑2007 duopoly driven by app ecosystems, the UI led skins and the new wave of brand led operating system layers that focus on elevating the user-smartphone performance, experience and personalisation. Aligned with this evolution, at Techarc is our P-E-P framework for benchmarking operating systems which classifies, compares and brings out the unique features of various operating systems being benchmarked.

2026 is going to be yet another interesting year for the smartphone industry. We already getting a glimpse of these super smartphones with the launch of iQOO 15, OnePlus 15, Realme GT 8, Oppo Find X9 and Vivo X300, Xiaomi 17 and other flagships which are yet to take our smartphone experiences to next levels. The chipset makers Qualcomm and MediaTek have already announced their flagship processors that will be powering these super smartphones.