There may still be many users who do not know it, but apparently such disparate brands as OPPO , OnePlus , Realme and Vivo, coexist under the umbrella of the same company, mother, one of the largest in the museum as BBK Electronics , a conglomerate of companies that has allowed to give life to 4 of the most famous Chinese mobile companies.
This is the reason why on some occasion, we have seen how terminals from a manufacturer have been launched, with another name but with surprisingly similar characteristics and design by other brands of “the house”. An example of this we have in the OnePlus 5 and the OPPO R11.
Over time, companies have been differentiating their smartphones a bit more but it seems that now we can go back to the past after OnePlus and OPPO have merged their respective research and development departments into one. Both brands have merged their R&D department, with the clear objective of saving costs.
What will happen to the future mobiles of OPPO and OnePlus?
This strategic move would have reportedly been carried out by the two companies in December 2020. This means that the R&D division of either brand is no longer separate, although both OEMs would continue to offer unique software and features. and it has been promised that the merger will not be reflected at the product level.
Sources internal to the industry assure that the brands and their parent company want to continue a relationship similar to that shared by Xiaomi and its subsidiary Redmi and that it is giving the Chinese manufacturer such good results. Both companies share the same research and development system and that is not replicated in the design or characteristics of the phones.
One of the key aspects of this merger is that software is not part of the new R&D strategy for now. Therefore, Oxygen OS and Color OS should retain their distinctive characteristics, although it is true that after the update to Android 11 of both layers of customization, several functions and some more than similar settings between Oxygen OS 11 and Color have already begun to be seen. OS 11 .
The result of this way of sharing the R&D department should begin to be seen in the mobiles of each brand at the end of the year, so the OnePlus 9 and the OPPO Find X3 will still be quite different.
Source>Android Authority