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On November 16, at the 2023 OPPO Developers Conference (ODC23), a new generation of ColorOS 14 was officially released. Just three days before the launch of the new system, ColorOS has reached another important milestone in its development: the number of monthly users worldwide has exceeded 600 million.

In a blink of an eye, ColorOS has become the fastest Android deep customization system in China to break through 600 million monthly users.

As ColorOS 14, which started a new decade, what new experiences did it bring under the three technologies of self-developed Pantanal system, AndesGPT and ColorOS supercomputing platform?

CTOnews.com also upgraded its Oppo Find X6 Pro to ColorOS 14 in the first place. Next, this article will bring ColorOS 14 experience evaluation.

ColorOS 14 continues the "aquatic design" of ColorOS 13.

When you first started ColorOS 14, this UI design didn't bring you earth-shaking visual changes, but more refined the "aquatic" design in detail.

For example, in terms of sound effects, ColorOS 14 brings 10 groups of aquatic theme ringtones such as clouds, ripples, starry sky, midsummer and sunshine.

There are also new "aquatic" live wallpapers, which will show a flowing dynamic effect after each light screen.

These are closely related to nature's "water," which is the cornerstone of all things in nature. So it presents us with the most natural and intuitive visual experience.

In detail, ColorOS 14's UI "aquatic" color saturation is slightly heavier. In fact, since ColorOS 13, OPPO has changed in this respect. The most intuitive change in vision is that it doesn't look so small and fresh.

And don't worry. Because in the detail options, OPPO still gives a super rich personalized settings, for example, in the interface color, if you don't like this set of slightly higher saturation theme blue, theme green options, then you can also choose any of your favorite colors on the color bar, and even extract colors in static wallpaper.

ColorOS 14's aquatic colors can also change with time.

For example, when the alarm clock rings at different time periods, the colors presented are also different: warm yellow in the morning, sky blue at noon, and blue at midnight at night, each color corresponding to a different time point.

This set of aquatic wallpaper, with the change of time, wallpaper will also switch different styles:

On ColorOS 14, OPPO also added a new way of interacting called "fluid cloud."

Borrowing official data, this set of fluid cloud can carry out real-time reminder with primary and secondary, rhythmic and cross-device in three forms of bubbles, capsules and cards according to service status and information priority, so as not to disturb excessively and not to let users miss important information.

On system-level applications,"Fluid Cloud" has covered applications such as calls, personal hotspots, timers, recordings, bullet nests, mobile phone screen projection, cross-screen interconnection, headset connection, OPPO mutual transmission, voice-to-text, etc.

For example, screen recording, before and after the screen recording, it is presented in the interactive form of small cards, and it is presented in the form of capsules in the screen recording.

For example, sending and receiving documents through "mutual transmission" will also be presented in the form of cards.

In addition to these system-level applications, ColorOS 14's "fluid cloud" can identify various services and states of the phone, including travel, taxi, cycling navigation, takeout and more.

Take "air travel" as an example, check-in, boarding, delay, cancellation, change, baggage carousel and other information, will be notified and reminded by capsule, card way.

The fluid cloud also supports intelligent recognition. When it detects that the user copies specific content, the card will pop up automatically with one click, eliminating the tedious steps of switching apps.

This is also one of my favorite features in my experience-in addition to being able to copy passwords, it also supports the identification of key information such as addresses, flight numbers, courier numbers, schedule events, and foreign translations.

For example, colleagues sent you a flight number, you just need to copy, the system will automatically pop up the flight card, click to enter the details page.

For example, a friend sends you a string of addresses. If you navigate past, the traditional operation method is to copy this string of address information to the navigation App, but "fluid cloud" does not need these complicated operations: copy the address directly, and the system will pop up the navigation card.

Even, WeChat friends send you a foreign language, you only need to copy to pop up the system-level translation service.

II. Efficiency improvement experience Thanks to Pantanal system and AndesGPT, ColorOS 14 brings a global fusion creation experience, including a series of functions such as brand-new system-level flash mapping, transfer station function, cross-device circulation, cross-application sharing, etc.

First of all, the brand-new system-level flash map function, this with "transfer station," is simply a productivity artifact.

As shown in the above figure, ColorOS 14's "system-level matting" only needs to select a good picture in the album, press and hold to automatically identify the matting picture, the extracted picture is PNG format, you can choose to save, copy or share in the pop-up options, or further, drag this picture directly to the "transfer station."

The whole operation is quite simple, almost no cost to start, a little drag, can be easily completed.

There are many application scenarios for this system-level matting, such as making pet emoticons. There is no need for tedious matting operations. You only need to press and hold pictures.

Of course, ColorOS 14 brings "screen recognition collection" not only limited to image capture operations, but also to the recognition of key content such as text, pictures, links, etc.

For example, the text in the screenshot can be copied as easily as copying text with a slight long press.

These key contents can be stored in the transfer station, which can be temporarily stored and previewed for 30 days. It also has the ability to store and call at one end on mobile phones, computers and tablets.

Whether it is photo material or content collected by screen recognition, as long as it is moved to the transfer station on the mobile phone end, these contents will also appear synchronously on the transfer station on the tablet end (after logging in to the same account).

This includes logging in to the "portable workstation" on the PC side, and its "transit station" will also synchronize these contents.

PC-side "portable workstation"-transfer station ColorOS 14 transfer station even supports mail, browser, and even third-party applications, such as CTOnews.comApp. In sharing, APK files can be directly stored in the transfer station, synchronized to the tablet end, you can directly open the installation.

In a word, ColorOS 14's upgrade in efficiency improvement is simply to understand your appeal better:

Whether it's a photo or a screenshot, you must have a need for key information in the picture, so "screen recognition collection" and system-level matting function help you extract;

The extracted key information naturally needs to be saved, so it will be stored in the transfer station, and when it is needed, it will be opened and directly selected;

Since it is stored in the transit station, there is naturally a need for multi-terminal synchronization, so ColorOS 14 realizes one end of tablet, mobile phone and PC storage and multi-terminal synchronization.

ColorOS 14 has improved productivity, as well as three aspects of "Direct PhoneLink","Portable Workstation" and "File Opening".

First let's talk about the "portable workbench", this function Oppo Find X6 series and Oppo Pad2 tablet should not be too strange, simply put, it is a "cross-end file management and tablet platform".

After opening the portable workbench on the device side, log in to the workbench website through the browser, and you can view all the files in the tablet and mobile phone, including pictures, videos and even audio, compressed packages, installation packages, etc. It can also synchronize Jinshan documents and notes and to-do.

The portable workbench function is quite practical. For example, when I wrote this review, hundreds of screenshots in my mobile phone were imported into Mac computer through "portable workbench."

The "Direct PhoneLink" feature enables seamless connectivity and cross-end collaboration between mobile phones and Win computers without downloading apps.

At present, Samsung and Glory mobile phones have supported Microsoft Phone Link connection, and OPPO has become the third manufacturer to support it.

In ColorOS 14 control center and system settings, OPPO has added PhoneLink entry. After connecting with Win computer, you can send and receive mobile phone text messages, make phone calls, receive application notifications, open mobile phone applications and other operations on the computer. It also supports drag and drop transmission of various file types between mobile phone and PC.

In fact, Phone Link is also a icing on the cake function, because as early as ColorOS 12 era, OPPO added "cross-screen interconnection" function, PC (Win) download cross-screen interconnection application, mobile phone open cross-screen interconnection, you can search for corresponding device connection, similar to Huawei's multi-screen collaboration, document quick backup between mobile phone and PC, computer mouse and keyboard quickly control mobile phone, notification sharing and so on.

Cross-screen interconnection of the last "file open" function, simply speaking, mobile phones can also open CAD, Keynote and other formats of files, not limited by the system restrictions, for iOS, Android platform dual users, this function is quite practical.

Third, under the power of the large model, the more versatile small cloth Under the power of AndesGPT (Andes large model), small cloth also ushered in a new evolution, it is not only a voice assistant, but also a personal assistant who understands users better.

As a dialogue enhancement language model with 100 billion parameters, OPPO large model AndesGPT has knowledge, memory, creation and tool capabilities, and supports intelligent scheduling of end-cloud collaborative full-scene. According to the latest data from OpenCompass, AndesGPT ranks first among large models with the same 7 billion (7B) scale parameters.

After Xiaobu is formally connected to AI large model, at present, it is mainly upgraded around three aspects: "machine assistant,""personality creation" and "personality service recommendation."

Xiaobu Assistant appears in the form of App in the mobile phone, let's look at it in detail.

"Machine assistant," when we encounter some machine problems, directly consult small cloth assistant, can help you deal with, greatly reduce the operation process.

This function is very friendly to the elderly, for example, sometimes do not know how to clean up mobile phone garbage, or want to set eye protection mode, or find photos in the album, or even set the status bar, you can directly shout to Xiaobu.

"Personality creation" is a function that the author likes very much, including speeches, planning cases, Short Video scripts, copies of friends circle, restaurant reviews, text embellishment, etc., all of which can be done by Xiao Bu.

Even, it will help you "advice," such as writing love letters, or late for work, directly let Xiao Bu help you write a tear-jerking copy, who read not confused.

For example, if you travel to a strange place and are too lazy to organize the strategy, you can directly ask Xiao Bu to help you.

"Personalized service recommendations" are also useful, such as facing complex scheduling arrangements, small cloth can help you organize records, ask about daily arrangements, it can immediately present the results.

In the process of experience, I can feel Xiao Bu's ability is quite strong, especially in encyclopedia knowledge, text polishing, copy generation, imagination space is huge.

But after all, it is also the reason for the beta version. There are also some small problems at present, such as understanding different word expressions but the same semantics. For example, say "Increase charging speed" to Xiao Bu, and it will generate an answer copy. If you say "how to improve charging speed," it will directly provide options for cleaning background and rapid charging.

Of course, this wasn't a problem. After all, the system had just sent out a notification. Not many people were using Xiao Bu yet. When more people used it, they would naturally be able to solve it.

According to official data, after upgrading ColorOS 14, OPPO Find X6 Pro can keep common applications alive for 72 hours, the cold start speed of Top20 applications is increased by 6%, the hot start rate of Top50 applications is 90%, and the storage space of 256GB version mobile phone is optimized up to 20GB.

To test the smoothness of ColorOS 14, we selected 22 apps for cold boot time testing.

After the actual measurement, the cold start of these 22 commonly used application time is about 1 minute and 15 seconds, the whole process is smooth, except for a slight heat in the test, other aspects are quite stable.

The second scene, WeChat album loading test.

Some products with insufficient performance often have the problem of white blocks in album loading, which is especially common in Android phones, so see how OPPO Find X6 Pro performs after ColorOS 14 performance optimization.

From the actual measurement point of view, in the test of hundreds of photos, ColorOS 14 basically does not have white block problem, slide up and down, photos can be preloaded well in advance, this overall performance is no less than iPhone (the latter has always had obvious advantages in this respect).

In terms of privacy, according to official information, ColorOS has obtained a number of high-level authoritative certifications in the industry, such as MDFPP and ioXt Android Profile, and implements all-round security governance from application admission, listing, download, startup, operation to final uninstall cleaning data.

This part is too much to talk about, directly say two specific privacy functions that the author personally feels are very practical: privacy watermark, through the algorithm to automatically identify specific types of pictures in the album, such as ID card, passport, business license, etc., prompt the user to add a protection watermark for the picture.

ColorOS 14 adds the option of "Ask for Single Use" for photo and video usage rights. When the app asks for usage rights, users can choose to authorize only specific photos and videos to maximize privacy and security.

Summary: Summarize the new ColorOS 14 from multiple aspects such as design interaction, service, and function.

First of all, the design, details of the "aquatic" concept of continuous improvement, so that ColorOS 14 this set of UI is full of water-like "tension," as for UI design is not good to see, do not evaluate, but as long as the experience, you will be able to intuitively feel like water as flexible, delicate, and ubiquitous, natural healing flow interaction feeling.

At the interactive level, the brand-new fluid cloud brings more efficient, intuitive and humanized service notification methods, especially the upgrade in "intelligent identification" and support for more ubiquitous services, including high-frequency scenes such as life, tourism and travel. The feeling to the author is that his subjective initiative is stronger, he understands your meaning better and understands your appeal better.

ColorOS 14's global fusion creation capability, as well as the acceleration of Pantanal system in multi-fusion, enables content collection, editing, creation and sharing to be realized in a "one-stop" manner, further enhancing ColorOS 'productivity attributes.

In terms of functionality, with the help of AndesGPT's large model capability, Xiaobu Assistant ushered in a revolutionary upgrade, equivalent to installing a ChatGPT, a universal encyclopedia, an intelligent assistant with on-demand questions, full of surprises and freshness. Under the power of large models, Xiao Bu's assistant also has a very broad imagination space in the future.

In a word, the intuitive feeling brought by the new ColorOS 14 to the author is the "warm and lasting" like a long stream of water. It won't show you everything in the first time you upgrade the system, but it will definitely divide the surprise into points and present it to you slowly in your subsequent use process.

As the title says, fluency and ease of use are just the basics, this time understanding you better is the key.

This is all because ColorOS 14 can understand you better.

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