Meizu has joined the Peer-to-Peer Transmission Alliance

In August 2019, Xiaomi, OPPO and vivo made a joint statement to establish a Peer-to-Peer Transmission Alliance. The three companies collaborated by updating their operating systems (MIUI, ColorOS and FuntouchOS, respectively) and added the feature of cross-platform peer-to-peer file transfer. Through the newly created channel, the devices can interact at the touch of a button.

The founding companies also invited other manufacturers to join their alliance. Today, nine months later, four more brands have done so – Meizu (Flyme), OnePlus (OxygenOS), Realme (Realme UI) and Black Shark (JoyUI). Thus, the service becomes available to nearly 400 million users.

The advantages of this peer-to-peer transfer are:
– no additional third-party applications need to be installed for data transfer;
– almost all file formats are supported;
– stable transmission, high speed (about 20MB/s), no traffic consumed.

The feature is similar to Apple’s Airdrop. The Bluetooth pairing protocol is used. No internet connection is required, although there is an option with Wi-Fi P2P. Energy consumption is low, despite the high transfer rate.

Adding more and more brands is very good news for consumers. So far, four other major Chinese manufacturers remain outside the alliance – Huawei, ZTE, Nubia and Lenovo.