Oppo, OnePlus, Realme Phones Get Phone Link Support, But There’s a Catch

Oppo smartphones will quickly work higher with PCs and laptops working on Microsoft’s Home windows 11 and Home windows 10 working programs, due to the addition of assist for Telephone Hyperlink and Hyperlink to Home windows. On the lately concluded 2023 Oppo Builders Convention, each corporations introduced that assist for the 2 apps was coming to Oppo, OnePlus, and Realme telephones. Nevertheless, it seems that appropriate handsets would require a software program replace to the newest model of ColorOS (Oppo), OxygenOS (OnePlus), and Realme UI (Realme) so as to entry the options.

Microsoft’s Phone Link app was beforehand unique to the corporate’s Floor gadgets, and telephones from Samsung and Honor, however the firm’s assist web page has now been updated (via WindowsLatest) to incorporate 4 new entries — Oppo Discover collection, Oppo Reno collection, OnePlus collection, and Realme collection. Equally, Microsoft’s Hyperlink to Home windows documentation has also been updated to incorporate the identical entries.

The assist web page doesn’t checklist particular smartphone fashions, whereas a number of from Samsung and Honor are included underneath totally different sections. A number of Samsung’s smartphones are additionally listed underneath a RCS messaging part, however telephones from the three Chinese language OEMs will not be included on this checklist.

In response to Microsoft’s assist web page, the Oppo Discover collection, Oppo Reno collection, OnePlus collection, and Realme collection will assist Telephone Hyperlink, Link to Windows, Telephone display (remotely displaying your cellphone display), and Apps (permitting you to reflect apps working in your smartphone). Samsung cellphone customers may sync their clipboard, rapidly share information and consider photographs from their digicam roll, decide up cellphone calls, reply texts — with out reaching for his or her cellphone.

Nevertheless, identical to Samsung telephones, homeowners of Oppo, OnePlus, and Realme telephones should watch for a software program replace that provides Telephone Hyperlink assist. Because the options had been introduced alongside ColorOS 14, Oppo Discover and Oppo Reno collection homeowners are anticipated to get assist for the characteristic when the replace arrives, whereas OnePlus and Realme telephones should watch for OxygenOS 14 and Realme UI 5.