Oppo today began offering customers an alternative to its ColorOS.
The company has created a new operating system based on Android 5.1 Lollipop that it calls Project Spectrum. Project Spectrum offers the advantages of speed and quick system updates from Google, while maintaining some of Oppo’s core user interface features, such as screen-off gestures and Oppo’s PureImage and MaxxAudio apps.
Oppo said owners of the Find 7 and Find 7a handsets can download and install Project Spectrum directly. Further, installing Project Spectrum will not affect users’ warranties. Oppo expects to make the alternate OS available to the R5 and R5s soon.
Oppo said it believes Project Spectrum will appeal to customers in western markets that favor a more Google-like experience on their handsets. Oppo’s ColorOS is an Android fork, which means that it relies on the Android base code, but doesn’t include Google services.
Oppo will release a version of Project Spectrum based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow early next year.
