Oppo, Vivo And Xiaomi Join Hands to Launch Their Own AirDrop Alternative

Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo partnership for better and faster file transfer

Chinese giants Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi may compete for a larger clamper of the pie in the smartphone market, simply they've now decided to partner up and build a new wireless file transfer protocol for its Android-backed devices. They are looking to rival Apple's oh-then-popular AirDrop file-sharing characteristic.

Called the Inter-Transfer Alliance (upon translation), it will run across the iii aforementioned Chinese phone makers offer a new file transfer technology to its users. This will allow the users to ship/ receive different types of files including photos, documents, sound files, zip files, videos, and others over Bluetooth. It will most probable utilise Wi-Fi on the backend, so it tin can offering speeds upwards to 20MB/second – much like AirDrop.

Xiaomi'southward official blog post says that the alliance currently has three phone makers, but information technology looks frontwards to welcoming other manufacturers who are interested in baking its new file transfer system into their devices. Upon translation from Chinese to English, their official announcement reads as under:

"Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo jointly established the "Inter-Transfer Alliance" to reach cross-brand one-central common transmission, bringing users a better file transfer feel. After the call, the inter-transfer function is fast, fast, low-ability, no need for traffic and third-party applications, cantankerous-brand file transfer and data migration "ane-bear upon", and recently open beta."

Android doesn't offer a fast and reliable way to transfer files between devices, thus, the need for a new data transfer protocol is existent. You can use ShareIt or Files Become for all your file-sharing needs just who wants another app on their phone for the same. There's been sightings of a new "Fast Share" feature on Android Q, but information technology will likely be express to some Android devices – thanks to fragmentation. Vivo, Xiaomi, and Oppo can, notwithstanding, offer their file transfer technology to users via a software update for FunTouchOS, MIUI, and Color Os.

If yous're eager to try out this AirDrop for Android-like service, well, a beta version of the file transfer feature should go available past the end of this month. And then, what are your expectations from this feature? Let united states of america know in the comments below.