What is Color OS?

ColorOS is an operating system created by OPPO Electronics (OPPO) of Guangdong, China. It is a fork of Google’s operating system Android. The major difference between Google Android and OPPO ColorOS is that the latter includes some features unavailable in the former. Such features include: customizable gestures for screen off, screen on, communication, a security centre, lock screen magazines, options for long screen shot, eye protection changing to a warmer color temperature, FTP Server and others. ColorOS, in some respects, looks similar to iOS made by Apple. ColorOS was available for OnePlus smartphones from their forums page.

ColorOS removes a lot of user controls as well. The settings screen is similar to IOS, rather than all other Android versions. ColorOS does not allow user to restrict mobile app, and services usage. The entire service of “Restrict Background Usage” is removed. There is no “Data Settings”, users may only set alarms when mobile data reaches a certain limit. The user will have to manually turn mobile data off.

List of ColorOS releases:

• ColorOS 3.2, Based On Android 7.1.1 (Nougat)
• ColorOS 3.1, Based On Android 7 (Nougat)
• ColorOS 3.0, released on March 17, 2016; 2 years ago – based on Android 5.1 Lollipop, according to developer is 25% faster than ColorOS 2.1
• ColorOS 2.1
• ColorOS 1.0, released on September 23, 2013; 4 years ago