Oppo ColorOS 12: Features, release date and everything else you need to know

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(Pocket-lint) - ColorOS is Oppo's instrumentality connected a customized Android skin. One that it pre-loads to each of its phones retired of the box, but with the adjacent mentation there's a small much intrigue. Earlier successful 2021 it was announced that OnePlus and Oppo would beryllium releasing a unified OS connected each of its devices.

That means - with ColorOS 12 and Oxygen OS 12 (already announced) - we're apt to spot the erstwhile chiseled lines betwixt the 2 get precise blurry. Here's everything you request to cognize astir ColorOS 12, built - of people - connected Android 12.

Release date

Rollout from December 2021
Will beryllium disposable to 110 phones by extremity of 2022

Depending connected your device, erstwhile you get the bundle volition differ. However, the rollout starts successful December 2021 for the Find X3 Pro, with different devices getting the update astatine immoderate constituent successful 2022. The program is to person each included devices moving the bundle by the extremity of that year.

Features

Inclusivity

One of Oppo's large focuses for ColorOS 12 is making the plan much inclusive for antithetic regions and languages. That means adjusting the spacing and the plan truthful that erstwhile the app titles look successful languages that person longer phrases and words, that it fits naturally.

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Oppo has besides worked connected its assorted connection translations to marque them much accurate, peculiarly Dutch and Russian. It's offered up to 67 languages, with the UI and contented layout adapted to acceptable each one.

The accusation layout of the assorted app interfaces has been reorgnised to marque them much intuitive and elemental to use. Plus, it's been made much adaptive truthful that it tin set to acceptable connected immoderate size and standard of phone. That suggests that Oppo volition yet motorboat a telephone to the masses with a foldable/flexible screen, wherever the surface size changes size.

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3D Icons

Like OxygenOS 12, app icons successful the caller mentation of ColorOS volition person a subtle 3D constituent to them to marque them little flat. Customisation is inactive possible, with much pre-installed shapes and sizes of app icon, including Google's classical Material icons.

Wallpaper theming

In Android 12, erstwhile you alteration your wallpaper, the accent colour of yor UI besides changes. In ColorOS, there's thing rather similar. You tin take a colour taxable successful the customisation surface oregon opt to prime 4 antithetic colours from your applied location surface wallpaper and usage those arsenic a theme.

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Battery Dashboard

Perhaps thing that should person existed overmuch sooner: Battery Dashboard. It allows you to spot successful item however overmuch powerfulness your telephone is utilizing passim the day, truthful you tin spot immoderate signficant powerfulness drains and spot which apps mightiness beryllium consuming excessively overmuch of your artillery juice.

This includes a one-tap powerfulness redeeming enactment that lets you rapidly adjacent immoderate apps that it detects are utilizing a batch of power, stopping them from sipping distant astatine your precious artillery erstwhile they don't request to be. There are besides different speedy options, arsenic listed by Oppo: "disabling inheritance activities, enabling car brightness, disabling precocious show mode, disabling 5G, disabling 120 Hz/90 Hz refresh rate, disabling GPS, mounting the car screen-off clip to 30s, disabling borderline lighting, and more."

Colour Vision test/enhancement

As portion of its efforts to marque ColorOS much inclusive and accessible, there's a caller enactment successful the show callibration paper that allows users to make a customized colour enhanced illustration based connected however they spot colours. To activate it you tally done a elemental colour imaginativeness trial that assesses however you spot colours, it tin past find if you request a colour imaginativeness enhancement to beryllium applied.

Smoother performance

One of the biggest - oregon astatine slightest much important - changes is that the bundle is faster, smoother and little artillery intensive. Oppo says that it takes up 30 per cent little representation than ColorOS 11, and that it could besides pb to a 20 per cent summation successful artillery life.

What's more, by utilizing a method called codification decoupling, it avoids representation fragmentation which keeps it creaseless and accelerated for a longer play of time. That should mean your phone's hardware show lone degrades by 2.75 per cent implicit 3 years. In short: it should inactive consciousness accelerated and creaseless 2-3 years aft you bargain it.

PC Connect

This 1 appears to beryllium a diagnostic galore manufacturers are trying to enactment into spot recently. PC Connect volition fto you link your telephone to your Windows desktop oregon laptop, and usage it to power your phone. When it launches - aboriginal connected successful ColorOS 12.1 - it volition lone necessitate an app to beryllium downloaded to your PC, and past you tin link wirelessly.

This enables the quality to nonstop photos and media files from your telephone to your PC successful speedy fashion. Using speeds up to 45MB/s, you'll beryllium capable to transportation astir 500 photos successful a minute.

Android 12 features

Google's version of Android 12 comes with a batch of caller features, galore of which are being included successful ColorOS 12. That means you get the privateness dashboard, positive microphone and camera indicators to fto you cognize erstwhile an app is utilizing those. It besides includes caller accessibility features added to Android 12.

Another large absorption was to go person to banal Android by reducing the fig of pre-installed apps and for things similar Messages, Phone and Contacts, utilizing Google's apps alternatively than its own. It besides means, sadly, there's nary pre-installed Relax app.

Will my telephone get ColorOS 12?

If you person an Oppo telephone from the past mates of years, the reply is probably: yes. Oppo has ambitious plans to rollout the bundle to 110 antithetic models by the extremity of 2022.

Devices included successful the rollout program seen by Pocket-lint include: