Xiaomi joined hands with Oppo and Vivo last year to create a “Peer-to-Peer Transmission Alliance”, a one-click cross-brand P2P wireless file transfer system. Today, all three companies announced that they are taking the Wi-Fi based file transfer feature global, and have also announced details regarding its availability and phone compatibility. The peer-to-peer seamless file transfer feature is now live on a bunch of Oppo and Xiaomi smartphones in India and a host of other countries. On the other hand, Vivo smartphones will land support for the P2P file transfer feature next month.

The P2P (Peer to Peer) technology for the data transfer between Xiaomi[1], Vivo[2], and Oppo[3] phones does not require internet connectivity and relies on Bluetooth for fast pairing to transfer files at an average speed of 20Mb/s. Regarding the availability, Xiaomi says[4] that the P2P file transfer feature will be available on all phones running Android Pie or a new version. However, it won't be available on Redmi 6 Pro[5], Redmi 6[6], Redmi 6A[7], Redmi 7A[8], Redmi 7[9], Redmi S2[10], Redmi 8[11], Redmi 8A[12], Redmi Note 8[13], and Redmi Note 8T[14]. The file transfer feature is called Mi Share on Xiaomi phones.

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The file-sharing feature is called Mi Share on Xiaomi phones and Oppo Share on Oppo devices

 

As for Oppo, all phones running Android 10-based ColorOS 7 or a later version will support the feature. As of now, Oppo's Reno 2[15], Reno 10X Zoom[16], F11 Pro[17], F11 Pro Marvel's Avengers...

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