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Oppo’s ColorOS has over 500 Million global monthly active users

Pranav Sawant — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:24:43 +0000

Oppo’s ColorOS has improved a lot since its official release. The recent ColorOS 12 offers a finer user interface and has features like 3D icons, Privacy Dashboard, and Flexible Windows. Now, Oppo took it to Twitter revealing that the ColorOS has over 500 Million global monthly active users.

As per the company, the ColorOS monthly active users have exceeded 500 million all over the world. This is impressive considering that last year its smartphone shipment fell by 2%. Although the shipment declined, Oppo still managed to overtake other Chinese, as per research done by CINNO. It seems that Oppo’s ColorOS is really doing the magic here.

Thank you for being one in 500 MILLION!

All of us here at ColorOS is incredibly grateful to be by your side

Share your favorite #ColorOS moments& features with us in the comments! pic.twitter.com/AlTolGTSCd

— ColorOS (@colorosglobal) February 17, 2022

The ColorOS userbase is expected to increase even further this year considering that it has a couple of major phone launches in the pipeline.

One such launch is the Oppo Find X5 series China debut. The smartphone series will be launched on February 24 in the country. It will include the Find X5 and Find X5 Pro. If we go by the leaks, Oppo will employ the in-house MariSilicon X NPU inside the Find X5 Pro. The chip will be alongside the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset.

The Find X5 duo will have AMOLED screens with a 6.55-inch FHD+ display on the vanilla model and a 6.7-inch QHD+ screen on the Pro model. Both will have 32MP selfie cameras and a 50MP triple rear camera system. Unlike the Pro model, the Find X5 will be powered by either the Snapdragon 888 or 888+ SoC.

OPPO announces ColorOS 7 with lighter visuals, faster UI, & a special Flashback button

Joel Joseph — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:08:51 +0000

After weeks of teasers and anticipation, OPPO has finally announced the new ColorOS 7 operating system. The OS builds on the existing ColorOS 6’s borderless concept but makes it a lot lighter and easy on the eyes by decluttering the UI and tweaking its overall colors.

There are a lot of new changes made to ColorOS 7, so let’s take a quick look at them down below.

ColorOS 7 Design

The ColorOS 7 isn’t a revamped UI. So if you have ever used the ColorOS 6, you should be familiar with the overall interface. However, OPPO has increased the white space in the UI and tweaked the UI colors to make it easy on the eyes. The ColorOS 7 tones down the saturation to reduce visual fatigue. At the conference, the company revealed that on average, a user spends around 4.7 hours on his smartphone. Therefore it was necessary for the company to work on a user interface that was light and didn’t wear out the user.

The ColorOS 7 brings four different icon designs, including a couple of minimalistic options.

The company also launched a new OPPO Sans font with the new OS. The Chinese characters of the font were developed by Zhu Zhiwei of Hanyi Fonts while the western characters were developed by the U.S. design company, Pentagram. What’s even more interesting is that the OPPO Sans font has been released free to use for everyone, even for commercial use.

The ColorOS 7 also brings a system-wide dark mode that covers third-party applications as well. You can also schedule the dark mode to apply at a specific time in the day. You can further reduce eye strain in the dark mode by applying the eye protection layer on top.

ColorOS 7 Features

There are a bunch of new features in the new ColorOS 7 version. For example, there’s a new Focus mode, similar to the Zen mode on OxygenOS.

ColorOS 7 is smarter too. It can automatically switch to drive mode if it connects to the car Bluetooth and it can send a sleep mode reminder at night, depending on your smartphone usage patterns, which activates DND and dark mode on the device.

The ColorOS 7 also comes with a half screen feature which enables the UI to show small cards like contacts, calendar, and alarms on the bottom part of the screen. This is different from the traditional split-screen mode found in the previous version. Talking about split-screen, the new OS comes with a special Flashback (international name may be different) button that will come in handy when you have to quickly switch between two apps.

The button says: Your driver has arrived

We don’t have exact details on how it works in each scenario but imagine if you are gaming and you get a text which you have to urgently reply to. The flashback button comes to your rescue by offering a one-click switch between your game and the messaging app. What’s more, the button will give you a quick snippet of what’s happening in the game.

This button can also come in handy for other scenarios where you want a live view of what’s happening in the other app. For example, if you are texting and if your Uber or in China’s case, DiDi driver has arrived, the button will show a message for the same.

There’s also a new password manager powered by Google. Camera centric features in ColorOs 7 include a tweaked camera UI, portrait mode 2.0, night mode, super stabilization, and Soloop video editor. The OS also supports three-finger long screenshot and cropping.

Another interesting new feature is the added support for the cross-brand file transfer protocol that was established recently. If you remember, we reported a couple of months back that Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo and other big names came together to establish a cross-brand file transfer alliance. With the ColorOS 7, this transfer protocol goes live for some OPPO models.

ColorOS 7 Performance

In terms of performance enhancements, the new ColorOS 7 improves application startup speeds and fluency. The company says that app startup speeds have increased by 25% and system fluency and RAM utilization have improved by 30% and 40% respectively. Even gaming performance is reportedly improved, with touch response and game frame rates improving by 15% and 19% respectively in the new OS. These figures are likely with respect to ColorOS 6’s performance.

OPPO also said that there are more than 300 million ColorOS users worldwide today. The OS has been translated in over 40 countries and in more than 80 languages across the world.

The ColorOS 7 will first be available on the OPPO Reno3 model that will launch in December.

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ColorOS 7 new feature teased, power bank renting station pop-up

Airyl Jaszly — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:38:13 +0000

Chinese smartphone manufacturer OPPO is all set to unveil the latest iteration of their Android UI, ColorOS 7, on November 20. In preparation for the launch, the ColorOS team have teased another new feature of ColorOS 7, and this time it’s one that’s particularly relevant to Chinese users. ColorOS 7 essentially notifies users of nearby power bank renting stations if the phone’s battery gets low.

Power bank renting stations are a huge thing in China right now, and the ColorOS team are capitalizing on it. The feature itself is pretty self explanatory. If your phone is low on battery, it’ll notify you when there’s a power bank station nearby, as well as what sort of connectors are available. It’s a novel idea, and could come in handy quite often.

Oppo is also going to unveil ColorOS 7 in India on November 26. This is the first time the smartphone-maker has planned a launch event for the Android-based OS outside of China. Oppo promises the new update will come with ‘borderless aesthetics, fresh visuals and intuitive platform’, but we also expect to see some region specific features there too.

Outside of these few feature reveals, there isn’t much else known about ColorOS 7. We don’t know much about the design language, the themes or the upgrades made behind the scenes. It is the next big iteration of the UI however, so we should expect some big changes. Thankfully, the team seems to be pretty passionate, so we’re looking forward to what comes out of it.

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