The soul of OPPO N 1: the deep experience of ColorOS function.

IT 168 Evaluation Although the mobile phone war in September has been deserted, the competition in the industry has not been diluted by time. Fortunately, there is no smartphone? PC？ Only hardware theory and price war cannot bring core competitiveness.

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System (OS) is the soul of smart phones, through which hardware, applications and networks can form an ecosystem.

Without the system, the mobile phone users get is just a circuit board and a chip wrapped in a cold shell. Just like a human body that has lost its soul, what remains is more than half of the periodic table.

▲ In the post-Jobs era, the good experience brought by the iOS system supported the iPhone to continue to be brilliant.

Compared with Apple's dominant iOS, Android developed by Google is for everyone. Optimization and improvement depend on the fate of the manufacturer. Obviously,? what's up And then what? Does it work? This is not a hierarchical topic.

In the era of Android 1.x~2.x, HTC, Samsung, MOTO and Sony realized that the usability and experience of native systems were not the best. Among them, HTC Sense and Samsung TouchiWiz are the most successful, which can give full play to hardware performance while maintaining stability. The performance of the latter two is directly proportional to their market performance.

▲ Samsung /HTC system optimization has always been at the forefront.

The MIUI that followed was the most successful third-party system in history, which brought hundreds of millions or even tens of millions of loyal fans to Xiaomi mobile phone. It can be said that even if Lei Jun does not launch Xiaomi mobile phone, he can become the overlord of Internet portal through MIUI.

▲MIUI Forum asks ROM fans for endless stream.

The principle is simple. As long as the user chooses MIUI, running any program based on this mobile phone has nothing to do with the mobile phone manufacturer. In the era of rapid development of mobile Internet, no manufacturer can bear this fact.

Therefore, after Xiaomi MIUI and Meizu Flyme, domestic powerful manufacturers have also accelerated the development of their own systems. OPPO released ColorOS in a high-profile manner at the launch of the new machine N 1.

▲ColorOS release

At the beginning of development, ColorOS was assisted by Steve Kondik, founder of CM system. Let's take a look at the performance of ColorOS.

I have to say icons and desktops.

Looking back at the beginning of the release of OPPO Find 5, what was used? Heavy taste? Style icons are really impressive.

▲ Icon style of the old system

Enter 20 13, flat? Style has gradually become the mainstream of icon design, and its fresh performance has really improved the user experience. However, ColorOS did not follow this trend, but completely removed the border of the icon. In the words of OPPO designers, it is the essence of releasing icons.

The author installed third-party applications such as Public Comment and real racing 3 for testing. The former is downloaded in OPPO Application Center, which fully conforms to ColorOS' icon design style. The latter comes from the official game developer and belongs to the Android standard icon.

▲ Visible icons to be materialized can also be very fresh.

It can be seen that OPPO will customize icons for popular applications and try to keep the system style unified. After removing the border, the icon compatibility of other applications has also been enhanced.

However, the ColorOS icon management method is still backward. ColorOS adopts two-level design: desktop and main menu. Users need to drag multiple icons to the desktop, so repeat: long press the main menu icon-drag it to the green block below-and then drag it up to the desktop.

▲ColorOS is tired of dragging icons to the desktop.

In fact, change the position of the green block to the desktop thumbnail. Users only need to drop the icon into the thumbnail, so they don't need to repeat this annoying step.

On the contrary, ColorOS's drop-down bar is quite user-friendly. Generally, only basic shortcuts will be displayed when pulling down; When the user needs more settings, just drop it down.

▲ The drop-down bar of ▲ColorOS humanized design.

After reading the basic style design, let's take a look at some interesting features of ColorOS.

Free weather+mood camera

As early as the internal testing stage of ColorOS, designers have created a variety of weather animation desktops. In the official version of ColorOS, users can also select the associated weather. After association, the weather animation effect will change according to the weather in users' real life.

For example, if the city where the author lives is sunny, then the mobile phone desktop is the effect of blue sky and white clouds.

▲ Free weather

Of course, users can also choose by themselves. Now there are seven scenes of free weather: dandelion, sunny day, rain, snow, fog, cloudy day and thunderstorm.

▲ Left: dandelion right: sunny day.

▲ Left: Rainy Day Right: Snowy Day

▲ Left: Fog Right: Cloudy

▲ Thunderstorm, lightning really can't be intercepted. Imagine for yourself.

Interestingly, after the weather effect is turned on, users can also customize desktop wallpaper. With this setting, you can create a pretty good desktop.

▲ The city is floating, and it feels really good.

The free weather will not affect the smoothness of the system, but the power consumption will increase slightly. However, OPPO N 1 this model with 36 10mAh battery will not have obvious influence.

Phone calls and text messages are also very creative.

In the era of the prevalence of social software, the call and SMS functions of smart phones have been marginalized, but ColorOS has deeply customized these two functions.

The first is the address book. ColorOS supports Sina Weibo avatar synchronization. In this way, the rarely used avatar function will come into play immediately. In addition, in the contact details, the system will find the attribution according to the phone number and automatically display the local weather.

▲ Weibo's avatar has a high usage rate, which can enhance the connection between users and friends.

▲ When dialing, you can also turn on the weather effect and display the latest weather news of the other party in real time.

In terms of SMS, ColorOS has added the function of expression radar.

▲ Draw to the right in the expression bar to open.

By moving icons, users can quickly move and input symbols with different expressions. Through this function, you can easily become an emotional emperor.

▲ The closer to the edge, the more exaggerated the expression.

▲ It is not easy to enter this expression manually.

ColorOS also adds a lot of gesture operations to OPPO N 1. Let's have a look.

Unique somatosensory operation

OPPO N 1 supports back touch and more advanced sensing technology. Therefore, ColorOS in OPPO N 1 also supports the most somatosensory operation.

▲ColorOS somatosensory

▲ColorOS somatosensory

Because of the above-mentioned somatosensory functions, most of them need the hardware support of OPPO N 1 itself, so we will stay in the detailed evaluation to experience this part.

In fact, in order to let more users use somatosensory gestures, ColorOS developed the somatosensory gesture board function. With this function, users can customize the gesture to open the specified application.

▲ The author's painter is poor, so let's do it, hehe.

Pull down in the upper left corner of the screen to open the gesture board. In the gesture board, users can draw their favorite patterns and then associate them with a function or application.

▲ Gestures need a stroke.

Through the gesture board, users can quickly open commonly used functions or applications. Especially suitable for players who have installed a large number of applications and have no mind to manage icons.

System Security: Antivirus+Guest Mode

Users' dependence on smart phones constantly challenges the security of the latter, and ColorOS has joined a whole set of system security applications.

▲ Malware will cause the loss of traffic, phone bills and passwords.

▲ The application can be scanned for malware.

In ColorOS, users can also encrypt applications, and you need to enter a password to open the corresponding programs.

▲ The program encryption switch also needs encryption.

▲ Select an encryption program.

Guest mode is similar to application encryption, but it provides two sets of unlock passwords, which are used by the host and the guest respectively.

▲ Guest mode settings

▲ Encrypt contacts and photos

▲ Enter the guest password and cannot access the encrypted data.

▲ColorOS supports models.

Editor's summary: Although there are still some bugs and shortcomings, ColorOS still brings a bright feeling to the author. In fact, system development is not an easy task. At present, ColorOS not only supports OPPO N 1 and Find5, but also supports Samsung S4 and HTC One. I believe that more models will be supported in the future. If you are a user of the above models, you may wish to make more comments to ColorOS. After all, the spur from users is the best nutrition for growth.