It’s hard to consider the mainstream of the product when there are only two or three people who sell a small number of them. For cellphones and tablets that can be folded for truly accepted as the future of cellphones, they must be more accessible in design, availability, and price. It was a goalpost that tried to hit with the company’s first folding device. With mixed excitement and careful optimism, we took Oppo to find n for a good round to see how many points managed to score in the first trial.
Core Specs
With folded devices, specifications sound like the most boring part. That said, Motorola RAZR 2019 proves that good folds can be paralyzed by a decent performance. Fortunately, Oppo doesn’t really save on hardware, which makes propositions even more than unexpected surprises.
Snapdragon 888 will be “previous genes” in the following weeks, of course, but the performance is still commendable, especially when paired with 12GB of RAM. The rest of Oppo Find N is your typical affair, which means that it runs fine butter for almost everything you can throw. It ranks quite along with other Snapdragon 888 phones and even beat Exynos Galaxy S21 Ultra. Of course, there is also a Pro gamer mode to kick several levels at a lower cost of heat and a shorter battery life.
Design
Oppo find n is not the performance. After all, we have seen almost the same specifications on the Galaxy Z Fold 3, The Xiaomi Mi Mix Fold, and Huawei Mate X2. What everyone does about the Oppo folding phone, instead, is a very different design. Yes, it is still folded vertically in the middle like the three mentioned above, but significantly smaller and wider, which is actually the biggest thing about it.
Almost all folding phones have failed to provide designs that can be used when cellphones are folded. The third before Oppo was too high, with a mixture of Xiaomi Mi Fact as the biggest actor. They are also too narrow, making content look narrow and make the keyboard hardly use. Oppo Find N soles it by having an external screen in the Handier 18: 9 ratio and a smaller 5.5-inch screen, almost a throwback to a smartphone predating “phablets.” This means that the cellphone opens to an almost square aspect ratio of 8.4: 9, but a 7.1-inch screen also makes it able to be managed as a small tablet.
Display
The display may be the actual star of the show, at least the same as the hinges that allow this folding trick. After all, you will not really want to invest in expensive folding devices if it doesn’t stop the inconvenience when looking at the screen. The good news is Oppo also does not skimp on these parts.
The internal flexible screen is a 7.1-inch AMOLED panel with a resolution of 1920 × 1792, it does not reach 2K requirements. It supports a variable refresh rate of up to 120Hz and can do HDR10 and HDR10 +. It has small pieces of holes in the upper left corner for the camera facing forward, but it’s easy enough to forget it there in everyday use. There is a thin protective layer above the main screen, and the user may not delete it under any circumstances or the risk of destroying the fold screen completely.
Cameras
One thing that folded by the Galaxy Z has been very criticized is the camera set. Although not too terrible, it feels like a step back in time for cellphone 2021 which is still far more expensive than the usual upscale model. Pocket Huawei P50 proves that folding clamshell can have a larger camera sensor, and Oppo finds n proves that it can also be done for the folds of the type of book.
The triple camera system on the back is led by a 50MP main sensor with a PDAF and OIS OMNI-directional. The 13MP telefoto camera just rises to 2x optical zoom, but it’s better than not at all and really does the job well. There is also an ultra-wide 16MP with a 123 degree viewpoint.