
Forward of a rollout beginning in November, Oppo has revealed ColorOS 15 with some large UI modifications, but additionally a variety of… let’s say “inspiration” from iOS.
At an occasion in China at present, Oppo revealed ColorOS 15 (by way of GSMArena), its Android 15 replace. The brand new model brings a number of UI updates in addition to an enormous deal with animations. The “Aurora and Tidal Engine” lets animations run in parallel for a smoother expertise when switching between apps, whereas “Movement Results” enhance the animations each in Oppo’s apps, in addition to third-party apps. Oppo additionally says that behind-the-scenes enhancements pace up app set up by 26% whereas app responsiveness needs to be round 18% higher.
However there are far more impactful modifications right here.
For one, Oppo has break up the notification shade from the Fast Settings, one thing that Samsung is doing in One UI 7, and that even Google is rumored to do sooner or later. There are additionally a bunch of recent AI options together with a brand new option to work together with Oppo’s XiaoBu Assistant utilizing pure language, in addition to utilizing XiaoBu to circle content material on display screen to seek for extra details about it. AI may also be used for picture processing and modifying, similar to blur elimination, picture upscaling, reflection elimination, and extra. AI may also summarize content material in apps such because the Notes app and the voice recorder.
For those who spend only a second watching Oppo’s promo movies for ColorOS 15, although, you’ll additionally see a ton of options which can be fairly clearly copies of iOS options. There’s a blatant clone of Dynamic Island, an enormous deal with a closely customizable lock display screen that appears eerily just like Apple’s implementation (similar to separating items of the wallpaper and with the ability to retailer a number of lock display screen configurations).
Even Oppo’s AI assistant has the identical interface as Siri with Apple Intelligence, with a colourful light-up border across the display screen when the assistant is activated.
Oppo will begin rolling out ColorOS 15 in November on gadgets similar to Discover X7, increasing to dozens of Oppo and OnePlus gadgets in China (and within the international market) by means of March of subsequent yr.
OnePlus at present introduced plans to point out off its personal Android 15 replace, OxygenOS 15, subsequent week which is predicted to have basically the entire identical options and designs, simply meant for the worldwide market.
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