ColorOS 17 unveiled globally for OPPO, OnePlus, Realme smartphones: check key features, rollout schedule

Living Flow Design: Aimed to make the experience seamless; every element has been reworked to have some kind of transition when moving from one page or section to another. Accompanying the transitions are luminous light effects, along with bouncy and stretchy animations when interacting with buttons or menus. These effects can be found on lockscreen clock, quick settings panel, navigation bars, and other key areas.

Luminous Rendering Engine: A new rendering architecture that uses less RAM, improving animation performance. This should also improve efficiency. Per OPPO, ColorOS 17 can retain over 90 percent of its initial smoothness, even with storage at 90 percent capacity.

Improved customisation: ColorOS 17 introduces a couple of new lockscreen clock styles, along with weather effects that depict the climate in real time, such as sunny, rain, and fog. It also adds a new theme called ‘Esports mode’ that changes the look and feel of the game manager UI. On the home screen, there haven’t been major changes, except that every folder, clock, and icon now has light and transparency effects.

AI improvements (AI Mind Pilot, AI Suggest, OSee): OPPO has introduced AI Mind Pilot on ColorOS 17, a dedicated app that bundles ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity into a single system that can perform tasks and actions based on the user’s prompt. The AI Agent mode can also access locally stored files and photos and sort, organise, or combine them. This is similar to Google’s Gemini Spark and Grok Bot, which can perform tasks as the user requests.

ColorOS 17 rollout schedule for OPPO, OnePlus, Realme

Here’s when your OPPO, OnePlus, and Realme smartphone will receive the ColorOS 17 update, if eligible:

OPPO

OnePlus

Realme

Our ColorOS 17 hands-on notes show that the new software delivers an immaculate experience in usability, personalisation, and AI functionality. It continues to carry ColorOS’ philosophy of being fast, smooth, and smart, and should offer an impressive experience for users coming from other skins.