vivo launched the Android 14 beta for the vivo X90 Professional in Could and introduced the Android 14-based Funtouch OS 14 Preview Program for the smartphone in September. At the moment, vivo formally launched Funtouch OS 14 and shared a listing of vivo smartphones eligible for the improve in India together with the timeline for the rollout of the beta model.
The checklist contains 30+ smartphones, with the vivo X90 and X90 Professional getting beta updates in mid-October. These will probably be adopted by the X80 Professional in mid-November, with the X80, V29 Professional, V29, V27 Professional, and V27 receiving the updates in December. You possibly can test the picture under for the whole checklist with the rollout timeline.
iQOO additionally shared its roadmap for the Funtouch OS 14 beta’s launch in India. Over a dozen iQOO smartphones are eligible for the improve, with the iQOO 11 being the primary in line to get a style of Funtouch OS 14. The replace will probably be launched as we speak, so these can enroll within the beta program later as we speak. You possibly can test the image under for the whole roadmap. Additionally, observe that iQOO will not launch Funtouch OS 14 for the Z5 and older fashions.
Funtouch OS 14 primarily focuses on 5 areas – Personalisation, Productiveness, Multi-tasking, Smoothness, and Privateness.
For personalization, you now get three clock layouts on the lock display screen with eight font types and a wise shade choice. You too can apply a monochromatic shade palette to the system to match your wallpapers. It is based mostly on the Materials You design and is known as MY Colour Palette.
Furthermore, 90+ All the time-On Show types can be found within the Theme Retailer now, and you can too choose totally different ringtones for various SIM playing cards.
Within the productiveness division, you now have new video enhancing instruments, permitting unique high quality, lossless video export. You too can export movies in as much as 4K decision at 60 FPS. Furthermore, there are 25 new filters for video enhancing, that are all introduced in improved thumbnails.
The video playback expertise has additionally been improved since now you can alter video playback velocity, loop playback, and seize screenshots.
For multi-tasking, you might have a Mini Window that makes multi-tasking simpler by lowering the app to a small window that is still lively within the background and could be moved round on the display screen while you’re utilizing one other app. It helps side-swipe suspension, and you may have as much as 12 small home windows lively within the background.
Funtouch OS 14 will provide a smoother expertise with its RAM Saver, Prolonged RAM 3.0, Movement Blur, and App Retainer options. RAM Saver will launch as much as 600MB of house for quick start-up of a number of apps, whereas Prolonged RAM 3.0 will let you might have as much as 36 apps lively within the background on a 12GB RAM smartphone (as much as 27 apps with 8GB RAM).
App Retainer, alternatively, will make sure the 100+ whitelisted apps which are within the background and never closed manually are restored to their final interface so customers can proceed the place they left off, offering an interruption-free expertise. This characteristic is not fully new, although, since iQOO already launched it with the iQOO Neo7 Professional. Nonetheless, App Retainer on the Neo7 Professional does not help Fb, which is among the hottest apps, and after we requested iQOO about it, we had been informed it may very well be added to the checklist of whitelisted apps sooner or later.
Speaking about Movement Blur, this characteristic will provide a easy animation throughout app switching by 18.7% at a 60Hz refresh price.
Lastly, we’ve got Privateness, which is now ensured with improved App Hiding and password safety for hidden photographs and Display Mirroring. The Display Mirroring characteristic will stop notification pop-ups, so your data is not revealed when the telephone content material is mirrored on one other machine.
Like App Retainer, App Hiding isn’t a completely new characteristic however now helps Google apps.
