![]() It is a very light skin it has user-selectable screen/gesture layouts (you can choose Android 9 or 10 home keys), and there is very little so-called ‘bloatware’ with a handful of Google app alternatives. ![]() So, I did, and it worked! But I soon realised what was missing from pure Android.įast forward to now, and we are at ColorOS 7.x on Android 10 (Website here). And if you wanted, you could load pure Android – just navigate to the XDA Developers site, and you will find it. The answer is that it helped make OPPO one of the largest selling brands in China. To a Windows Phone and later Android user, this seemed counterintuitive, and I (and other journalists on the trip) kept asking why we could not have pure Android for Australia. The answer was that this was what the Chinese market wanted. Similar gestures, swipes, apps and even iconography. When I first saw ColorOS 3 during an OPPO factory tour in 2016 (OPPO came to Australia in 2015), I asked why it was so Apple iOS-like. Of course, genuine certified Australia models have the full Google suite. The skin incorporates non-Google alternatives to Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, Camera, Sound, Maps, device maintenance and more things that we use Google for. And UI interfaces are necessary if you want to get more out of your hardware than pure Android allows. ![]() In other words, UI (User Interfaces) are a fact of life if you sell in China. It is no different to TCL, Alcatel, Huawei, ZTE, Xiaomi, Motorola, Samsung, LG et al. OPPO, or its siblings realme, vivo and OnePlus have a large Chinese market where Google Mobile Services and apps are prohibited. Like the rest (apart from Huawei that cannot use Google) – it is just a user interface. It is not at all fair to say that ColorOS (or realmeOS, etc.) is not Android. ![]()
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