Latest news with #ColorOS
GSM Arena
5 days ago
- GSM Arena
Oppo Find X9 Ultra's camera configuration leaks
The Oppo Find X8 Ultra only launched in April, and yet here we are a month later already talking about its successor, which is allegedly due to arrive in March of next year. Still, we must, since a new leak today brings us purported details about the Find X9 Ultra's camera setup. The phone will allegedly come with a 200 MP main camera, a 50 MP ultrawide, and a pair of periscope telephoto cameras - 200 MP and 50 MP. Oppo Find X8 Ultra So Oppo is keeping the quad-camera design of the Find X8 Ultra, but changing things around rather significantly with a new, higher-res main camera, and a new, higher-res telephoto for the closer range of zooming. This one will also pull double-duty as a macro shooter. For comparison, note that the Find X8 Ultra has four 50 MP cameras on its back. The Find X9 Ultra will be powered by Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 chipset. According to past rumors, the Find X9 Ultra has a 6.82-inch flat OLED screen with "2K+" resolution and 120 Hz refresh rate, and will launch running ColorOS 16 based on Android 16. Oppo's ColorOS 16 will be unveiled at some point between July and September. Source (in Chinese) | Via
Phone Arena
22-05-2025
- Phone Arena
The best foldable in the world stunned me—until I had to actually use it
Take the excellent Oppo Find N5 as the perfect example. It can easily go toe-to-toe with just about any standard flagship out there in terms of performance, battery life, and camera quality, with the massive added bonus of being a foldable phone hiding away a massive screen on the inside. The reason for that is the unacceptable Color OS skin that sours the experience. Time and time again, different phones have proven one thing to me: you usually pick a phone from the likes of Oppo, Xiaomi, or Vivo for the hardware and the value, not the software. The latter is often the weakest part of the equation and is often sewn with white thread in many areas. Lacking essential features but overdelivering in terms of personalization and customization in order to appear half-decent is often the case with most custom Android skins originating from China. Now don't get me wrong, the Oppo Find N5 is one awesome phone as detailed in our review, objectively outclassing just about any other foldable phone in terms of hardware. It's just that the software doesn't fully live up to the expectations. There's nothing beckoning you to use this interface, you simply learn to live with it and eventually become accustomed to its peculiar oddities. This isn't how things should be. For example, you'd think that a top-notch foldable that costs nearly $2,000 and comes with all the hardware bells and whistles you can think of save for a built-in stylus would let you change the icon layout of your home screen, right? Think again! A 6X4 grid per screen is all you get, an oversight on Oppo's part that brings the Oppo Find N5 down to basic iPhone levels of customization, which isn't a compliment here. Weirdly, the ability to change the grid exists on standard Oppo phones with Color OS 15, so the lack of it here seems deliberate. You'd also assume that you will at least get consistent notification icons, right? Nope, it's only the stock apps that show colored icons in the status bar, while third-party are displayed as white ones. This creates a jarring disparity in the interface. An unappealing mess" Another pet peeve of mine is originality. Not just Oppo, but many other manufacturers to this day are guilty of copying iOS, but somehow it never feels just as good. Oppo here has gone out of its way to emulate the iOS Control Center to the T, with obviously similar volume and brightness sliders, even the flashlight has an identical design here. I'm not telling which one's which Other features copied straight from iOS is Apple's Live Photo functionality, which I absolutely adore. Oppo has developed a similar feature in its Color OS software, which functions pretty much identical, and that's fine. But of all possible design choices, did Oppo really have to go with a nearly 1:1 copy of Apple's original Live Photo interface. I get that the company is trying to sway away iOS users, but does it really have to lose every bit of originality in the pursuit of doing so? You will feel right at home on the Oppo if you love Live Photos as much as I do That said, it's not all bad about the Color OS 15 interface here. There are some very nice exclusive features that I haven't seen elsewhere. For example, did you know that with the switch of a toggle, Color OS will hide away your notifications if its front camera detects another person looking at your phone and not you? That's a cool and mighty useful privacy feature right here. Personalization and customization are strong here, but not as deep as on other custom Android skins like Vivo's Funtouch OS or Xiaomi's HyperOS. In direct comparison between the three, I'd put the Color OS in the last place. Eventually, I guess one would get accustomed to the interface of the Oppo Find N5, but it will probably involve some huffing and puffing in the process.
Phone Arena
20-05-2025
- Phone Arena
The best foldable in the world stunned me until I had to actually use it
Take the excellent Oppo Find N5 as the perfect example. It can easily go toe-to-toe with just about any standard flagship out there in terms of performance, battery life, and camera quality, with the massive added bonus of being a foldable phone hiding away a massive screen on the inside. The reason for that is the unacceptable Color OS skin that sours the experience. Time and time again, different phones have proven one thing to me: you usually pick a phone from the likes of Oppo, Xiaomi, or Vivo for the hardware and the value, not the software. The latter is often the weakest part of the equation and is often sewn with white thread in many areas. Lacking essential features but overdelivering in terms of personalization and customization in order to appear half-decent is often the case with most custom Android skins originating from China. Now don't get me wrong, the Oppo Find N5 is one awesome phone as detailed in our review, objectively outclassing just about any other foldable phone in terms of hardware. It's just that the software doesn't fully live up to the expectations. There's nothing beckoning you to use this interface, you simply learn to live with it and eventually become accustomed to its peculiar oddities. This isn't how things should be. For example, you'd think that a top-notch foldable that costs nearly $2,000 and comes with all the hardware bells and whistles you can think of save for a built-in stylus would let you change the icon layout of your home screen, right? Think again! A 6X4 grid per screen is all you get, an oversight on Oppo's part that brings the Oppo Find N5 down to basic iPhone levels of customization, which isn't a compliment here. Weirdly, the ability to change the grid exists on standard Oppo phones with Color OS 15, so the lack of it here seems deliberate. You'd also assume that you will at least get consistent notification icons, right? Nope, it's only the stock apps that show colored icons in the status bar, while third-party are displayed as white ones. This creates a jarring disparity in the interface. An unappealing mess" Another pet peeve of mine is originality. Not just Oppo, but many other manufacturers to this day are guilty of copying iOS, but somehow it never feels just as good. Oppo here has gone out of its way to emulate the iOS Control Center to the T, with obviously similar volume and brightness sliders, even the flashlight has an identical design here. I'm not telling which one's which Other features copied straight from iOS is Apple's Live Photo functionality, which I absolutely adore. Oppo has developed a similar feature in its Color OS software, which functions pretty much identical, and that's fine. But of all possible design choices, did Oppo really have to go with a nearly 1:1 copy of Apple's original Live Photo interface. I get that the company is trying to sway away iOS users, but does it really have to lose every bit of originality in the pursuit of doing so? You will feel right at home on the Oppo if you love Live Photos as much as I do That said, it's not all bad about the Color OS 15 interface here. There are some very nice exclusive features that I haven't seen elsewhere. For example, did you know that with the switch of a toggle, Color OS will hide away your notifications if its front camera detects another person looking at your phone and not you? That's a cool and mighty useful privacy feature right here. Personalization and customization are strong here, but not as deep as on other custom Android skins like Vivo's Funtouch OS or Xiaomi's HyperOS. In direct comparison between the three, I'd put the Color OS in the last place. Eventually, I guess one would get accustomed to the interface of the Oppo Find N5, but it will probably involve some huffing and puffing in the process.
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Yahoo
Fancy controlling Mac with Android? Oppo's upcoming foldable could let you do that
Oppo's upcoming foldable is already all over the internet for its razor sharp looks and dimensions that should let it grab the title for the 'world's thinnest' book style foldable. Besides the ergonomics, Oppo is making some iterative changes to the foldable, including a bigger inner screen, bigger battery, the latest-gen chipset, and the addition of wireless charging. Ahead of the launch in the coming weeks, Oppo is teasing new functionality that will folks control their Mac with the Oppo Find N5. Chen Xi, the director of design in Oppo's ColorOS team, posted a glimpse of the feature in action on Chinese social media Weibo. The media shows the Oppo Find N5 folded in half, with its top part duplicating the screen from a macOS machine while the bottom half shows a keyboard. The feature, Xi notes, is an extension of the 'O+ interconnection' (based on automatic translation) features. The executive is supposedly referring to O+ Connect, an iOS app currently allows sharing files with Oppo and OnePlus phones with speeds comparable to AirDrop. With this additional utility, you could not only mirror a Mac's screen to the Oppo Find N5 but also control the computer remotely. We can expect certain limitations, such as both the foldable and your Mac being connected to the same Wi-Fi network. It remains to be seen if the feature is restricted to Oppo's home country, China, or also made available in other regions. If the latter happens, it should also be accessible on the OnePlus Open 2, which is destined to be a rebranded Oppo Find N5 and essentially run the same software. We also hope Oppo and OnePlus extend this functionality to older phones — at least the flagships. We expect to learn more once Oppo formally announces the phone on February 20th in Singapore. OnePlus' launch should follow in a few days or weeks, though the two devices are unlikely to sell simultaneously in the same regions. Oppo has already begun teasing the foldable's design and confirmed some of its specifications. The foldable will accompany the Oppo Watch X3, which will also be rebranded as the OnePlus Watch 3 for different markets.
