OnePlus, Xiaomi and others band together to make file transferring more user-friendly

While we can't even use Bluetooth to transfer files between iOS and an Android device, Chinese smartphone manufacturers have come together in a file transfer alliance. Their goal is to bring an AirDrop-like universal file transferring protocol that many major local smartphone brands will support.

Unlike some of the anti-consumer practices we've seen from other brands, the Chinese giants aim to make cross-device file transferring seamless and easy for the end user. As reports, the feature has gone through months of development and has already rolled out to certain Xiaomi, Vivo and OPPO smartphones.

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