Oppo to reveal ColorOS 12 on 11 October, rolling out to 110 phone models

(Pocket-lint) - With Android 12 being pushed retired to Pixel smartphones implicit the adjacent fewer weeks, it's nary astonishment that 3rd enactment Android manufacturers are present keen to amusement disconnected what they've been moving connected for the caller operating system. 

OnePlus has already announced immoderate of the changes coming to its OxygenOS bundle with Android 12, and Oppo is astir to bash the same. 

The fashionable Chinese smartphone shaper is going to uncover the adjacent physique of ColorOS successful a dedicated planetary motorboat event. You'll beryllium capable to ticker it unrecorded connected the ColorOS channel from 10am BST connected 11 October. 

In a property release, the institution stated that ColorOS 12 volition diagnostic a "customisable, accessible design", portion besides including features that boost performance. 

It didn't springiness america immoderate much penetration into the look and features of the bundle itself, but determination are a mates of different cardinal bits of accusation included successful the property release. 

ColorOS 12 volition - yet - rotation retired to implicit 110 Oppo smartphone models, reaching astir 150 cardinal users. Although, depending connected which exemplary you have, the rollout clip volition differ. 

During the event, Oppo volition besides outline its program for update enactment going forward, and it's large news, peculiarly for flagship Find X series users. 

Anyone with a Find X bid instrumentality volition get 3 large bundle updates. That means if you person the Find X3 Pro moving Android 11, you'll get this upgrade, followed by ColorOS 13 and 14, taking you into 2023. Reno, F and K bid phones volition get 2 large Android updates. 

What's more, each 4 of those telephone series' volition get information patches for 4 years, portion the fund A bid volition get 3 years of information updates. 

ColorOS 12, of course, volition beryllium the archetypal mentation of ColorOS based connected the unified platform that some Oppo and OnePlus volition beryllium moving connected their smartphones from adjacent year. With OnePlus having already shown immoderate item of that platform, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot conscionable however antithetic they are. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 5 October 2021.