OPPO announced the all-new ColorOS 12 operating system for its global users. becoming one of the first OEMs smartphone brands to run on Android 12.
Aiming to provide its users a seamless experience that’s closer to stock Android 12, ColorOS 12 introduces an all-new inclusive UI, smoother performance, and rich features that help boost everyday productivity as well as help achieve better work-life balance.
With this, OPPO officially rolls out ColorOS 12 public beta to its global users. It plans on expanding to more models covering more countries and regions in the coming months.
With a presence across 68 countries and touching the lives of 440 million users around the world, inclusivity has been a central theme in the creation of ColorOS 12. Building on top of OPPO’s Infinite Design concept, which is very customizable, the new OS provides a more inclusive experience and comes packed with softer icons, animations and information framework that are friendly to different languages and cultures.
The new ColorOS 12 emphasises on comfort and endurance. Because of the long-term code decoupling efforts, it has made some achievements in addressing lags and stutters after prolonged usage, especially in anti-fragmentation and intelligent resource allocation. This leads to a low 2.75% system aging rate in 3 years, an average of 30% lower memory occupation and 20% lower battery consumption.
The Quantum Animation Engine adopts more than 300 improved animations to achieve effects that are lifelike. By imitating physical habits of resistance, inertia and rebound, the feature makes the overall experience smoother and more aligned to the cognition and habits of the human brain so that the experience is more realistic, and intuitive.
Practical features such as PC Connect, 3-Finger Translate powered by Google Lens, FlexDrop and Phone Manager allow ColorOS 12 users stay productive through multiple scenarios.
OPPO has been listening to its users on prioritising privacy and the ColorOS 12 not only comes packed with all the improved security and privacy features from Android 12, including Privacy Dashboards, Approximate Location Sharing and Microphone and Camera Indicators, but also the well-received OPPO features such as Private System, Private Safe, App Lock and others.
Holding privacy certifications from authoritative organisations such as ePrivacy and ISO27001, the company deploys third-party supervisor in the data security filed to make sure everyday process compliance.
While ColorOS has incorporated many stock Android features, it has also inspired the customisable trend in Android 12, like the Wallpaper-based Theming system in Material You, which you would be able to find a similar self-developed feature in previous ColorOS editions. Another fine example of this exchange is the App Cloner from ColorOS that now features in Android 12.
ColorOS aims to become a more Android developer friendly OS. In addition to the free camera SDKs covering its camera capabilities – including Ultra Steady Video Shooting, HDR, Super Wide-Angle and other features – OPPO has further opened its HyperBoost, Color Vision Enhancement to benefit Android app developers and enhance the Android ecosystem.
OPPO also announced a major update policy for the first time. For all devices releasing from 2019 and onwards, the company will guarantee three major Android updates for its flagship Find X Series devices, and two Android updates for the Reno/F/K and some of the A Series and a single Android update for the low memory A Series models.
OPPO has already released ColorOS 12 public beta on the Find X3 Pro 5G. Rollouts will then continue step-by-step in other countries and on additional devices through the rest of 2021 and 2022.
