Oppo Find N Impressions: The Best Folding Phone?!

 

This oppo find n might actually be the best folding phone on planet earth right now.

at least in terms of form factor so as far as foldables go samsung's galaxy z fold 3 is the gold standard right huge outside screen goes right up to the, edges then the large unfolding inside.

screen with the hidden selfie camera flagship specs and cameras and build quality so the number one question is if you could change anything about the fold and as someone who's used the fold the

most common answer that i've heard is if it was just not quite as tall if we could just make it smaller like if you've ever looked at the fold while it's closed it's got that super tall.

unconventional aspect ratio and if you wanted to make it more usable you'd enter oppo find n now i'm just going to.

preface this video by saying most people watching this video here on youtube will this phone because it's a china-only phone and youtube is not available

officially in china so this impressions video is more of my evaluation of the hardware and the idea of a smaller folding phone not whether you should buyone or not although it does technically.

undercut the fold so it turns out there are a lot of benefits that come from shrinking down the folds form factor and low-key this might make it a contender.

for best small phone of the year so the outside screen is only five and a half inches diagonally now the rest of the phone is of course thicker so we'll get.

to that in a second but shrinking the whole thing down like this makes it much more usable from corner to corner as a normal phone so it's got a normal two by.

one aspect ratio on the outside and it happens to be a really nice bright nearly 1080p screen so it's sitting at over 400 ppi pixel density but the point is it's way more usable and way more.

pocketable it's literally about the same size as an iphone 13 mini now of course it is thicker than the iphone but that's because you open it up the same way as.

the fold with this nice firm smooth hinge to reveal a much larger inside screen so oppo calls this the serene display for some reason i don't know why.

everything has to have a name but it's a 120 hertz ltpo folding display so on paper this is only slightly smaller than.

the z-fold 3's 7.4 inch diagonal but it does feel meaningfully smaller and with that 8.4 by 9 aspect ratio it's it's nearly squared up it feels kind of like.

a little notebook size so it's nice it's, a little less massive and intimidating you might not be using it all the time as a productivity multitasking device.

but it's still a convenient huge screen for media writing things down single apps at a time and it also feels way more likely to be switched back and.

forth between portrait and landscape super easily also gotta love the 120 hertz ltpotech which can ramp down the refresh rate when there's not as much.

happening to save that battery this phone has the ultra thin glass over the crease that the galaxy fold has and it also does have a protective layer over.

that you can actually feel the cutout probably shouldn't remove that protective layer but the point is this phone has all the same fundamentals.

referring to the fold three because that's the high-end folding phone that we're mostly all here familiar with but this really does feel like oppo's.

version oppo's own modification of that idea so the hinge is really high quality it's firm and smooth which inspires confidence holding it it can stop at any.

number of positions up to 120 degrees open and sit on a table not as much software to take advantage of it but oppo has built in a couple things you.

can use the hinge as a tripod to prop up the selfie camera and take photos like that you can try to watch some videos but oppo hasn't really optimized any of their apps or even worked with the.

google apps to move it up to the top half of the display so it doesn't look great but the software does have really good continuity between open and closed.

states so if you're reading something while it's closed and then you open it of course it just appears and fills that full screen now if you're doing.

something with the screen open and then close it you know sometimes that just means you're done you just close the phone you're done using it but sometimes.

you actually want to pick up where you left off on the smaller display in which case you close it and then just swipe up and the screen turns on and lights back up exactly what you were using on the.

cover screen they've also got the fingerprint reader on the power button they've got a dual speaker setup for dolby atmos sound they've also dropped.

in the high end specs snapdragon triple eight up to 512 gigs of storage and eight or 12 gigs of ram and they've got the triple cameras on the back the 50 megapixel main camera a 14 millimeter, ultra wide and a telephoto and oppo's had some pretty great cameras on their

phone for the past couple of years this one's rounded camera bump reminds me a bit of the find x3 pro which i really

liked you know it is wild though so they did so much of the same stuff that samsung did the ultra thin glass the

great hinge the triple cameras all that they've somehow managed to fit a larger battery in this phone than the fold now

it's still split between two batteries actually it's one in each side so combining the one on the right with the one on the left for that balance it's a

4500 milliamp hour battery total which is larger than the fold 3's 4 400 milliamp hours now again this isn't a full review i haven't been using it long

enough to know if that actually translates to really great battery life the math checks out smaller screens bigger battery seems pretty great and

that also ties sort of hand in hand with the one con the one downside that i really note about a phone like this

which is the outside screen is just 60 hertz that would have been nice i mean

it would have cost more battery but it would have been nice to match the inside and outside screens at 120 hertz samsung

did have the 60 on the outside and the 120 on the inside on the fold 2 before they matched them on the fold 3. but either way this is fascinating it

doesn't necessarily have to move things forward technologically speaking i still visibility for example and feel ability is about the same as samsung and huawei.

which is to say barely visible when you're actually looking at the content but it's still pretty visible when you're really looking for it but you know they don't even do the selfie.

camera underneath the display they still have a selfie camera cut out in the corner but don't forget about the ability to unfold the whole thing and use the primary cameras and the outside

screen as the viewfinder but this isn't a copy of the fold either i really feel like the design is the one thing they really embraced the most as their own

this two-tone look with the matte finish on the back the slight slope up to the camera bump and they also put a bit of text on the indent in the really nice

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price will be under 10 000 u.n china's currency i have to sort of translate that to u.s dollars and that comes out to about 1500 1550 so it's competitive

maybe even undercutting some of the most premium flagship folding phones but that's almost not the point it's just it's just trying something different and a little a little a little adjusted from

what we've gotten used to so this whole has gotten better it's gotten more options more variations more things to choose from more ideas out there i'm

curious for those watching are you on team big fold or littlefold or maybe neither maybe you're more of a flip person but i i feel like i do like this better than the bigger fold but i'm curious what you guys think let me know in the comments that's been it thanks