Oppo’s Android 12-based Color OS 12 is here and in our hands-on, we take a look at all the major and minor changes coming to your Oppo phone.
Following the official release of Android 12, the long wait for broader support begins. Oppo is amongst the first to reveal a public timeline for their take on Google’s latest Android version upgrade via its own Color OS skin. We’ve been testing out an alpha release of Color OS 12 over the last week and here are our first impressions. Oppo India supplied us a unit of the Find X3 Pro to test out the operating system ahead of release and the first few builds proved to be rather buggy. Over a series of updates over the course of the week, Oppo has smoothened out most of the deal-breaking bugs, and the version on which we’ve based our hands-on was more or less ready to be used as a daily driver. Let’s take a look at all the major (and minor) changes you can expect from Color OS 12 when it rolls out to your phone starting later this year. Read more: Color OS guide — everything you need to know about Oppo’s Android skin Oppo is talking refinement and subtle improvements across the skin and that’s exactly what you get. Long-time users of Color OS will feel right at home, but some of the changes like the better text rendering and truncation stood out to me. The wallpaper-based color picker for theme highlights brings a slice of Material You to Color OS. While you won’t be getting a full-fledged Material You-style overhaul here, Oppo has cherry-picked some features like an automatic color picker in the wallpaper selector. The tool can adjust the color of icons in the base theme to match the choice of wallpaper. Widgets like the clock have also been updated to sport a rounder design in line with Material You guidelines. Additionally, the phone ships with a Material-style icon pack to get you just a bit closer to Google’s vision. The sidebar feature in Color OS is where we start seeing some of the functional upgrades.
