BYD Launches Full Brand Vehicle Smart Connectivity Features

On July 15, BYD announced the official launch of its vehicle smart connectivity feature across all brand models, fully compatible with major domestic smartphone brands, including Huawei, OPPO, vivo, Xiaomi, Honor, realme, OnePlus, and iQOO. This initiative aims to provide users with a comprehensive intelligent experience inside and outside their vehicles. Meanwhile, OnePlus also announced today that it fully supports the 'vehicle smart connectivity' feature for all BYD brand models, allowing users to choose screen projection applications, including models like OnePlus Ace5 Supreme, OnePlus 13T, and OnePlus 13. Additionally, OPPO has announced an enhanced collaboration with BYD to support remote vehicle control via the Xiao Bu assistant, which also allows for mobile content projection control. In fact, back in October last year, BYD had already partnered with OPPO, with the first product from this collaboration, the 'vehicle smart connectivity' feature, being implemented via OTA in the Tengshi Z9GT model and operable through the OPPO Find X8 series smartphones. The smart connectivity feature supports three major connectivity ecosystems: Carlink, HUAWEI HiCar, and Honor Carlink. Carlink is compatible with smartphone brands including OPPO, vivo, Xiaomi, REDMI, OnePlus, realme, and iQOO, featuring five highlights such as mirror mode, privacy mode, navigation transfer, music continuation, and large-screen viewing. HUAWEI HiCar offers three highlights: integrated desktop, mirror mode, and navigation transfer. The Honor Carlink offers application transfer features, first introduced with the Tengshi brand. It is important to note that BYD's vehicle smart connectivity feature has different requirements for various smartphone brands, models, system versions, and vehicle connection versions. For instance, Huawei phones require HarmonyOS 2.0 or above; Honor phones need MagicOS 9.0.0.169 or above; vivo phones require OriginOS 5 or above; OPPO phones need ColorOS 15.0 or above; realme phones require realme UI 6.0 or above; and Xiaomi phones need HyperOS 2.0 or above.