OPPO phones run a custom version of Android called ColorOS. The current version is ColorOS 11 and OPPO has done a great job rolling out the update to its devices. A new version is expected to be announced later this year and it should arrive as ColorOS 12. According to new info out of China, it will be OPPO’s best yet, thanks to the team developing it.
According to the Weibo user that goes by 菊厂影业Fans, ColorOS 12 combines the best features of other Android skins. The post says that the new OS combines the fluency and design of Meizu’s Flyme, the innovative features of Smartisan OS, and the simplicity of HydrogenOS.
If you are familiar with Chinese Android skins, then you will agree that the aforementioned features and their respective operating systems are indeed true. So how is OPPO able to achieve this? According to the post, ColorOS 12 is being jointly developed by a team made up of the original ColorOS team, Flyme team, Smartisan OS team, and HydrogenOS team.
OPPO recently hired Zhu Haizhou, a former product manager at Smartisan, to join its software development team. We also know that the HydrogenOS team would have been merged with OPPO’s own ColorOS team now that OnePlus is a sub-brand of OPPO. It has also been reported that OPPO has recruited several Smartisan and Meizu employees. So the information revealed by the account checks out.
Reliable Chinese leaker, Digital Chat Station, also revealed in a post that ColorOS 12, which will be based on Android 12, has some features of HydrogenOS. He also revealed that there are big UI changes and that it has already reached the internal testing phase.
ColorOS 12 is expected to be released in the third quarter of the year. One report even says the date is August 15, though we will advise users to take it with a pinch of salt.
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