Gadgetory

the Oppo find 7 a is a fine piece of kit and it comes with quite a few different features that really make a stand out from the rest like the fast charging but also it has an operating system that you really will only find on Oppo devices and is called color OS hey charge regard from Android authority of what's going on everybody and here is your future focus a look at the color OS alright and as you can see here we have the color OS and it's on the Oppo find 7 a which is the version that I have currently right now we're still waiting on the Oppo find 7 which is the quad HD or the 2k version if you want to call it that but let's go ahead and jump into the operating system essentially in a snapshot color OS is very much like plenty of other iterations of Android that basically have a lot of the classical elements but it just kind of shows them in a different light and then add some functionality on top that do actually prove to be pretty useful but here we are this is the color OS I do have a weather a type of effect that's going on as it is kind of cloudy right now in my part of southern California and there are also some pages here that I'll show you in a second but as far as the general homescreen experience goes you do have basically just the canvas to be able to put all of your icons your folders and also your widgets on there if you wish so we'll go ahead and add a widget on there hold on to the screen in order to do that or you can hit the menu button right there and you'll be able to change the wallpapers there are quite a few right here here are all of the widgets that are available now the widgets that color OS typically uses usually have a bit of an outer shape to them they're definitely not rigid or they're not there's always a bit of a curve to it but I'd set over to the photo page right here and if we click the icon right there it will actually open up the camera and it's just kind of a neat way of getting a quick photo one thing that I will tell you though is if I were to take a photo and then I clicked on here it would actually have that border on there so it's not just a straight photo it will actually put the date and the time on there and you'll be able to sort of kind of capture a moment on there it's almost a little bit like a Polaroid alright and it's at this point that we'll bring down the notification drop down you saw me swiping down from the right side and one of the reasons why they don't have the quick toggles and likes a notification shade is because if you swipe down from the left you get the gestures area so let's go ahead and talk about the gestures a little bit we jump into this gesture area and we have just the ability to draw a bunch of different pretty much anything really you can set pretty much any gesture to open any particular function or application in the Oppo find 7 a and if we go to settings we get a look at some of the ones that are available now the ones that we have are camera and flashlight already and those are ones that are usually available already but if we added a new one let's say if I wanted to open an application it's down here at the bottom so it'll show all of these applications let's say I wanted to open Chrome so let's just make it a C well hit OK and there you go you have a C so if I head back and bring down that notification or rather that gesture area a type of C and chrome comes right up and just a really easy way of getting to Chrome in that way of course you have a lot of other ones that the typical ones are to open the camera and then here's the camera interface and then of course the flashlight after that so that's just a quick look at that gesture area but speaking of gestures there are a lot more that they have inside of the Oppo find 7 a ok and as we return to here I wanted to show you the actual gestures that are available on here so let's just go to the settings and you'll see the settings menu is swipeable everything under display is pretty simple everything under sound is actually pretty simple you have all these toggles down here for the various types of sounds that you can have an under display you are actually able to change even there's a the daydream on here which is nice given that this is a version the based on KitKat after that you can change the styles and that is where the themes are and I'll show you that in a second but let's look at the gesture and motions so here are the various gestures that you can make and there are some come some typical ones that are down here like if the phone was ringing you would be able to flip the phone in order to silence it and then you even have a gesture answer where you can bring the phone up to your face if it's a if it's a call is coming in and they'll be able to answer the phone but the ones that are obviously a little bit more useful are the ones when the screen is off so if I turn this on right now it's called the blank screen gesture here are a bunch of different ones and you can't add anymore these are the ones that are only available you will be able to have let's say over here you can double tap to wake the screen which is one that we always use you can draw a circle in order to turn on the camera and you can even have the volume go up and down or create arrows in order to change the song that you are listening to so if we just turn off the screen right now I'll just double tap on the screen and there is the double tap to wake so do that and then just to will have a circle there you go you have the circle and you go straight to the camera so it's an easy way of getting to various portions of the phone and then finally there's another one right here where we have in application gestures now given that the translation of color OS sometimes it's a little bit wonky you kind of wouldn't really know what to expect when you read that description in the application you can use gestures instead of touching well it took a while for me to figure out what exactly that was and I will show you what it is right now actually I don't even have to go to the gallery app I could just show you using the home screens see that sensor at the top well it's very much like a Galaxy S 4 or 5 in terms of you're able to use air gestures for there so it is only available for the home screens and for the gallery app but that is basically what you have there and finally we will look at the themes now this would be pretty quick primarily because we're just gonna be changing the style so right here we have the wallpaper and lockscreen style but the only reason why I'm going here is because I want to change the screen lock or the lockscreen style now here are a bunch of the ones that are available you have the online the ones that are found online and you can just download all of them the one that you would probably know already is this one the original unlock so if we turn off the phone and turn it on there it is and you can always swipe over from the sides in order to get to various widgets but aside from that there's another one on here that's pretty cool which is this one the weather style and we'll be able to show you the weather via right there and then have the effect on there but also it is an easy way another easy way of game to the camera if you swipe down but I just kind of liked that the airplane one was kind of quirky and I did enjoy it so I kept it at that so the final thing that I'll show you aren't actually the themes now the list of themes that are available is actually a lot more extensive you'll be able to scroll for quite a little bit in order to find a theme that you like but the ones that are already installed already are pretty cool so the one that I'm using is the default theme and like I always say about color OS it does have a bit of an ethereal look to it because the colors always a little bit more pastel I suppose is the term and everything just kind of has this sort of airy feel to it but and that is also true for the for the icons but if I were to head back hold the menu button to open the recent apps screen you go back to the theme there is actually a jelly bean theme right here so if I apply it all of a sudden my Oppo find 7 looks a little bit more like a stock Android mostly in terms of the icons but there are plenty of like I could say the Oppo installed icons and also the folders still have that opal look that color OS look but at least it changes a little bit to kind of make it feel a little bit more familiar so keep it tuned to Android Authority for all of the best coverage including our future coverage and my full review of the Oppo find 7 a which is coming very very soon so hit that subscribe button and also hit up and road authority comm because we are your source for all things Android