Oppo took its time when designing its first foldable phone – it went through six iterations over the last four years. But finally the Oppo Find N is here and some of the design choices make it unique in a market that started to fill up with competitors. One major difference is that Oppo stuck with sane aspect ratios, starting with 18:9 for the outer screen, making the inner one 8.4:9 (slightly narrower than a square). To put that in perspective, the Galaxy Z Fold3 has a 25:9 outer display, the Mi Mix Fold a 27:9, while the Mate X got closest to a regular phone ratio of 19.5:9.
It’s not just the aspect ratio, though it
does have a major impact on the usability (some apps don’t look great on
extremely tall and narrow displays). Oppo went smaller than the competition –
the Find N has a 5.49” outer display and a 7.1” inner screen. This puts it in
the middle between smaller flip phones and larger horizontal foldables.
The new Flexion Hinge is a complicated
piece of clockwork with 136 components, but it achieves two important tasks.
First, it folds the display with a teardrop shape at the fold, making the
crease 80% less noticeable (this number is according to TÜV). Second, it
eliminates the wedge-shaped gap between the two halves when the phone is
folded, which the current market-leading design can’t say.
The hinge also enables something dubbed
FlexForm Mode. Essentially, the hinge can hold the two halves at any angle
between 50º and 120º, allowing the phone to act as its own tripod for long
video calls or time-lapse photography. Let’s have a closer look at the specs,
starting with the screen. It is a custom Serene Display with 12-layers. It
utilizes so-called Flexion Ultra Thin Glass, which is much thinner than the
competition – 0.03mm vs. 0.6mm. This makes it much more flexible. TUV-verified
testing proved that there will still be “next to no crease” after 200,000
foldings.
The main layer of the display is LTPO
AMOLED, which can adjust its refresh rate between 1 Hz and 120 Hz to match the
content you are viewing while the touch sampling rate can go up to 1,000 Hz.
Oppo calibrated the color rendering and brightness of both the inner and outer
displays. They can hit a peak brightness of 1,000 nits, but it is graduated in
10,240 brightness steps, so you can always find the perfect brightness in all
lighting conditions.
The outer 5.49” display is an AMOLED panel
with Gorilla Glass Victus protection. It has a resolution of 1,972 x 988 px
(402 ppi) and a standard refresh rate of 60 Hz. The inner 7.1” display has
1,792 x 1,920 px resolution (370 ppi) and a 1-120 Hz refresh rate. The Oppo
Find N is powered by a Snapdragon 888 chipset with 12 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 512
GB of UFS 3.1 storage. While the phone supports the regular split-screen
multitasking gestures, Oppo enabled a two-finger swipe down that splits the
screen or you can use a four-finger pinch to turn a full-screen app into a
floating window. Also, the transition between using an app on the outer screen
and moving to the inner screen or vice versa is made as seamless as possible.
The phone is equipped with a total of five
cameras – three on the back and two selfie cams (one on each screen). This
being a foldable means that you can use the main cameras for a selfie too. Speaking
of, the wide camera features a 50 MP Sony IMX766 sensor (1/1.56”, 1.0 µm
pixels). It is joined by a 16 MP ultra wide (14 mm, IMX481) and a 13 MP
telephoto (52 mm, S5K3M5) cameras. The phone is equipped with a 4,500 mAh
battery, surprisingly big given its petite size, and it supports wired and
wireless charging – 33W SuperVOOC and 15W AirVOOC, respectively (plus 10W
reverse charging).
Oppo Find N in White with a glossy glass
and a texture that matches the ceramic plate of the camera bump Oppo Find N in
White with a glossy glass and a texture that matches the ceramic plate of the
camera bump Oppo Find N in White with a glossy glass and a texture that matches
the ceramic plate of the camera bump
The Oppo Find N will be available in China
starting on December 23. Pricing is incredibly attractive at the equivalent of
RMB 7,699 (US$ 1,200/€ 1070) for the 8GB/256GB version and RMB 8,999 (US$ 1,410/€ 1240)
for the 12GB/512GB units. The sad part is Oppo doesn't plan on launching the
Find N in overseas markets.
