Oppo Find N5 review: the final evolution of foldables

Forpo’s Find N5 looks like an end game for folding phones. It is not because it is made or broken for a sector from the phone market completely Like manufacturers, they hope that, but because I simply don’t know where to go from here. There is rarely a room to make the phone thinner without getting rid of USB-C completely; Battery life, performance and even cameras are now equally with other major phones; This time, OPPO enables wireless charging and water resistance as well. This is what we promised all the time. Now what?

It is difficult to see how the device improves much more. With a thickness of 8.93 mm at the closure, this is the thinnest foldable in the world, as it shaves approximately half a millimeter of the previous record holder, Honor Magic v3. It is only 4.21 mm thin when it is open, proving that there is still space to reduce it – Huawei’s Trifold Mate XT It extends to only 3.6 mm – but we are about to be about to be at least one material limits. OPPO told me that it must customize the USB-C port for it on the phone of this skinny. There is only the breadth of the hair of the minerals on the external edge of the port. If the foldable phones will become thinner useful, the USB-C must go first.

Each comparison you can make with other devices look impressive. Upon closing, this is less than a thicker millimeter than iPhone 16 Pro Max or Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and weighs only 2G more than Apple. Open, it features a larger screen than the iPad mini but it is thinner and weighs less. It is lighter than any of the fold materials that you can buy in the United States at the present time and is the full 3 mm of Galaxy Z Fold 6. It is difficult to exaggerate the Find N5 feeling and a few concessions in their design and construction. I continue to capture and exclamation in engineering.

This applies to the 8.12 -inch home screen as well, as Oppo reduces wrinkles as the screen bends. It is still visible, but only when the light holds properly, which facilitates ignoring it rather than note.

Its folds were short in the battery life. Certainly this is the place where OPPO was cut to keep the Find N5, right? Not real. Using a copy of the second generation of silicone and carbon battery technology, the company is suitable for a capacity of 5600 mAh per hour-more than any folding you will find in the United States. Yesterday I spent visiting friends in an unreliable signal area, and took a lot of pictures along the rural walking and using the large interior screen to plan for a next holiday together. The N5 discovery was only decreased to 50 percent when I went to bed.

The lack of wireless charging was one of the main complaints about the previous discovery N3, which was eventually launched in the United States in the name of OnePlus is open. This has also been fixed, with the support of 50W wireless charging if you are using an OPPO Airvooc charging devices and slower speeds on regular charging platforms. Oppo sells a magnetic charging status separately as well, but this is its own level – Find N5 QI2 approved.

The battery life is likely to be assisted by adopting a new version of seven nucleus of the Snapdragon 8 ChipSet group, which sacrifices a little performance for better cooling and low energy consumption. It looks like a smart swap: I didn’t notice that the N5 Stutter was found once in more than a week.

The 8 -megapixel Ultrawide lens looks like a real idea, but a 50 -megapixel and 3X phone cameras will keep them against most pioneers. Fear lighting slightly is withdrawn, while dropping close to the details and excessive compensation for brightness, and the loss of a natural warm color, the cameras that were seized on Hasselblad tend to provide the rest of the time. These are not the best cameras that you will find, but it is at least comparable to Pixel 9 Pro Fold’sAnd I think Telephoto here has a feature on Google’s.

If there is a single devices area with an improvement in improvement, then this is durability. Oppo is proud that this is the first folding phone with IPX9 water-resistant classification, but “X” means that there is no classification for protection from dust-it can be said that it is more important for a foldable phone. While Find N5 feels strongly strong in size, its folds are fragile by nature.

Oppo received the right to praise for his novel when she launched The Find N3 a year and a half ago. Up to three applications on the main screen can be opened at one time, either sharing the space evenly or by dropping one of the edge, and ready to return to a click focus. It remains the best way to divide a large touch screen, and avoid Oppo tampering with a lot here. The only real change is that it is easier and easier to empower, can be accessed via a three -score list in the notification bar.

It tries a new new feature to suit more applications on the screen: Mac applications, to be specific. Oppo has expanded the current O Plus Connect functions, which had previously supported file sharing between OPPO and iPhone or iPads, to support MACS. It does more than sharing files, although: Once preparation, you can use it to control a distance from your Mac. You can convert the phone into a small small laptop, with the opposite of Mac width to the top half and the keyboard or a traditional plate at the bottom. The phone and Mac do not need to be on the same network, although the Mac must be online and wake up to start connecting. This is the type of function that you only use in a pinch, but it works amazingly smoothly, although you have to switch on the screen.

Other changes in the program focus on artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence can improve your connection, translate your calls and summarize your documents. Google Gemini is now the virtual assistant, and almost all the camera does is enabled. Nothing of this is particularly exciting, and he feels that there is only because it should be. Four years of Android version updates and six years of security support at least ensure that there is a lot of next artificial intelligence.

It may be the biggest failure in Find N5 is that it is not launched in the United States. Although we expected OnePlus to restart the phone as an open 2, the company confirmed this You will not be foldable this year. The United Kingdom and Europe will get Find N5, but the states will not reduce the pressure on Samsung and Google to put the devices to suit – or to drop their prices, which are in fact the final boundaries of folding. Oppo Find N5 has taken folding devices similar to books as much as it could go, but at $ 2,499 (about $ 1867), this is still its price for lovers only. If the folds will adhere to, she must stop identifying insomnia and start getting cheaper.

Photography by Dominic Breston / The Forge