Most Android smartphone manufacturers today go to great lengths to design their handsets in a personal level and to differentiate their products among the myriad of devices that are currently available in the market. Samsung has their TouchWiz, LG with its Optimus UX, Xiaomi has MIUI and HTC ships its Sense UI, but it's not just the form factor that counts here. Chinese manufacturer Oppo also has its custom designed UI overlay called the Color OS, although its recent project known as Project Spectrum is specially designed to bring the vanilla Android to its Find 7, thus offering the pure experience of Google's operating system in one of its flagship devices.
Oppo, through its community forums, have announced the first version of Project Spectrum for its Find 7. It comes with the full features of stock Android, which is 5.1.1 Lollipop, but the company has also added a couple of its most popular features from its proprietary Color OS.
Project Spectrum now brings support from screen-off gesture--users can double tap the phone to wake it up and they can also draw a circle to launch the camera app. In case it turned off by default, it can easily be enabled by going to the Accessibility section found in the Settings page. For users that find Google's camera app a bit basic, Project Spectrum brings Color OS' camera to support plugins such as Beautify, Filters, HDR, GIF, Double Exposure and Expert Mode. Lastly, Oppo's MaxxAudio also made its way into Project Spectrum to bring a more intuitive system-wide equalizer to its users.
Its developers will continue to add other features in the future as well. Aside from these additional features and changes, Project Spectrum is a no-bloatware Android operating system in its core.
Project Spectrum is now available for Oppo Find 7 users, but reports suggest that the company will expand its support to the R5 and the R5S, with the R7 series to follow afterwards.
