OPPO today unveiled ColorOS 15, built on Android 15, exclusively for the Chinese market at the OPPO Developer Conference 2024.
OPPO describes ColorOS 15 as “super light and more comfortable,” emphasizing a new design language that showcases natural light and shadow. This design aims to reflect personal expression and enhance the user experience over time.
ColorOS 15 Features
Industry-First Parallel Animation: ColorOS 15 introduces a parallel animation capability, enabling multiple windows to operate simultaneously. OPPO highlights quick response times with fingerprint swipes, ensuring a smooth user experience.
Enhanced Motion Effects: Delicate motion effects are integrated throughout the system, delivering a consistent sliding experience across both OPPO-developed and third-party applications.
Zero Performance Issues: ColorOS 15 aims for a seamless user experience, claiming zero occurrences of common issues such as crashes, stutters, frame drops, delays, and touch disconnections.
Gaming and Video Call Performance: Users can enjoy high frame rates for gaming and video calls, averaging 116.7 FPS. OPPO also reports an average application installation speed improvement of 26% and a 50% faster initial loading speed for third-party application albums.
Dual Engine Power
Aurora Engine: This new rendering architecture shifts from a traditional serial response to a parallel response method, resulting in an 18% improvement in control response speed and a 40% increase in control stability.
Tidal Engine: This chip-level performance solution enhances dynamic cache allocation and restructures the Android software algorithm stack, achieving three times more efficient instruction acceleration, with a 22.12% boost in multimedia decoding performance and a 12-minute reduction in file decompression time.
Super Xiaobu Assistant
ColorOS 15 introduces the Super Xiaobu Assistant, offering advanced system-level interaction capabilities:
- One-click Screen Query: Users can ask any question effortlessly.
- Screen Recognition Q&A: Easily browse posts and news with a single click.
- Circle Question: Users can highlight content of interest to receive tailored answers.
- Photo Q&A: This feature acts as an encyclopedia, enabling users to gather information effortlessly.
AI Features in ColorOS 15
AI Image Assistant: The AI Image Assistant transforms photos with advanced capabilities, including:
- AI Ultra HD Pixels: Allows users to zoom in on images without losing clarity or detail, enhancing a cropped photo of 100×100 resolution to 4K quality in just one second.
- AI Anti-smear: Users can restore clarity to subjects in portraits or pet photos with a simple tap, effectively presenting light, shadow, color, and facial details.
- AI De-glare: Eliminates reflections from glass surfaces in photos, ensuring images taken through windows appear clear and unobstructed.
- AI Pedestrian Removal: Automatically detects pedestrians in photos, allowing users to remove them with a single click to enhance composition.
AI Office Assistant Features
ColorOS 15 includes tools designed to boost productivity:
- AI Voice Summary: Summarizes important information from audio or video calls with one click.
- AI Document Management: Streamlines handling of documents across various formats, allowing for quick conversions and translations.
- AI Notes: Facilitates quick note-taking and formatting of recorded ideas.
- AI Help Writing: Generates illustrations based on photo content.
New OPPO Documents App
ColorOS 15 introduces a comprehensive AI document management tool with key functionalities:
- Flexible Reading: Supports conversions between formats like PDF, Word, and Apple’s suite.
- Creative Writing: Offers typesetting tools and editing features.
- Rapid Summarization: Summarizes lengthy documents in seconds.
- Advanced Search: AI-enhanced search capabilities allow for easy document retrieval.
Security and Privacy Features
The AI Private Computing Cloud leverages Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology to securely process private data, safeguarding user privacy during complex tasks, with OPPO obtaining industry certifications for its measures.
End-Cloud Collaboration further ensures data security by allowing access while keeping sensitive information invisible. The end-side AI has achieved CCRC 4+ security certification, ensuring that data operations remain within a secure local environment.
ColorOS 15 Design Features
OPPO’s ColorOS 15 features a redesigned visual language that incorporates natural light and shadow, enhanced by the Aurora Engine for improved graphics rendering. This update offers several visual enhancements, including:
- Natural Mapping: Provides texture interpretation through natural light and shadow for an appealing visual experience.
- Spatial Hierarchy: Delivers advanced effects for a realistic and comfortable user interface.
- Detailed Animations: Engages users with dynamic light and shadow animations during interactions.
- New Inspirational Themes: Revamped personalization options include realistic depth-of-field effects and nine customizable themes for personal expression.
More Features in ColorOS 15
ColorOS 15 introduces several features aimed at enhancing user experience:
- OPPO Mutual Transfer and OPPO Share: The O+ interconnection app enables seamless file transfers between OPPO devices and iPhones, allowing users to transfer photos, videos, and documents in just eight seconds.
- Enhanced Multitasking: Users can split the screen between two applications for a panoramic experience and utilize a powerful free-floating window system for full-screen displays and gesture-based operations.
- Direct Fluid Cloud: The Fluid Cloud feature now supports new scenarios, allowing users to easily swipe for information without switching applications.
- Album Editing: Users can perform global reversible editing on photo albums, enabling parameter adjustments and easy recovery of previous edits.
- Xiaobu Suggestions: This feature offers intelligent recommendations based on various scenarios, such as travel itineraries and phone launches.
- Live Photo Enhancements: New EIS (Electronic Image Stabilization) technology supports more models, allowing users to capture, play, and convert live photos into GIFs or videos.
- Independent Notification and Control Centers: These centers now have larger displays for notifications and more quick control options for enhanced accessibility.
- Smart Floating Window: New gestures enable users to manage floating windows efficiently, including swiping to close, maximizing full-screen, or collapsing.
Privacy Enhancements
- Smart Clipboard Protection: This feature identifies and prevents unauthorized access to private information in the clipboard.
- Calendar Permission Control: Apps can now create events without reading the entire calendar, reducing privacy exposure.
- Automatic Deletion of Verification Code SMS: Verification codes older than seven days are automatically deleted, keeping the inbox uncluttered.
- Reversible Editing of Photo Albums: The system retains a history of edits, allowing users to restore original images or make secondary changes.
Availability and Rollout
ColorOS 15 will begin rolling out in November 2024 in China, with the following devices receiving the update:
- OPPO Find X7 Series (X7, X7 Ultra Satellite, X7 Ultra), Find N3 Series (N3, N3 Collector’s Edition, N3 Flip), OnePlus 12, OnePlus Ace 3, OnePlus Ace 3 Genshin Impact Keqing Customization and OnePlus Tablet Pro
Details about the global rollout is expected in the coming weeks.