When unfolded, the gadget’s part becomes thinner than a typical headphone jack. Though its design is original, the product has a premium price tag for selling.
Oppo is back with a new foldable, and the Find N5 is technically remarkable in thinness and strength. Skipping over the whole unlucky number four thing—this is technically the fourth generation of the Find foldable.
The business claims its newest book-style foldable is the thinnest in the world at 8.92mm. That is not notably thicker than a standard flagship phone. Notwithstanding this, Oppo notes that the Find N5 boasts several durability enhancements on its 8.12-inch inner screen and 6.62-inch outer display, complemented by a new titanium hinge.
For clarity: Although you might not have purchased, used, or even seen an Oppo phone, this firm is owned by the same corporate owner as OnePlus. Last year’s Find N3 foldable ended up in the US as the OnePlus Open.
You may find the Find N5 similarly rebadged. If that is the case and this is ultimately the Open 2, you will not see it this year. The follow-up foldable from OnePlus said it will not arrive until 2025.
My first impression of the Find N5 at an early briefing was that it was a tiny, high-quality foldable. Unfolded, one side measures only 4.21mm, thinner than a headphone jack. (That’s a perfect justification for the lack of one.)
With just a razor-thin border around the Find N5’s USB-C connection, Oppo had to strengthen and fortify the borders of this thin device. The still excessive ring camera array has also been cut down by 20 percent.
Apart from its smaller profile, which phones seem to be following as the 2025 trend, the Find N5 weighs just 229 grams (8.07 ounces). That is just two more grams than the single-screen iPhone 16 Pro Max and less than the significant rival Galaxy Z Fold 6. Given that the Find N5 boasts an interior screen larger than all the other foldable, it is even more remarkable.
Its crisp profile and low weight make using its exterior screen, when closed, feel like using any other non-foldable phone. Since most phones I use daily have screens smaller than 6.62-inch, surfing and watching stuff before I have even opened the N5 feels like a treat.
Despite its thickness- or lack thereof- Oppo has guaranteed it is appropriately powerful with a Snapdragon 8 Elite processor and a 5,600mAh battery. (For reference, the 4,400mAh cell in Samsung’s most recent Galaxy Fold.)
The Find N5 is compatible with wireless chargers, unlike the OnePlus Open; if you have Oppo’s proprietary wireless fast charger, it will be available at 50W AIRVOOC.
With the supplied fast charger, you get an excellent and quick 80W wired charging speed. I could fully recharge the Find N5 in less than an hour. Like many other Android phones, though, this one is not Qi2-ready.
Oppo said that a magnetic case would be on sale upon device launch and that its patented wireless charging tech is faster. (Oppo supplies a non-magnetic casing to cover the phone’s rear.)
Offering its Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU, the Find N5 is the first foldable to pack Qualcomm’s most powerful mobile chip. It offers significant power efficiency advantages alongside performance boosts compared to earlier Snapdragon 8 silicon.
Improvements in battery life on Samsung and OnePlus handsets with the Snapdragon 8 Elite have astounded us; Oppo is following that trend. Combined with its large battery, this foldable usually lasted almost two days in my tests before requiring charging, and it has a smartphone stylus.
Durability is one of the main problems with foldable products; Oppo has improved the hinge and screen hardness of the oppo find n5 to help with this. Made from titanium alloy, 3D-printed to preserve material strength and reduce the hinge’s size by 26 per cent, the hinge now weighs.
The business highlighted the hinge strength during a press briefing in London by hanging a 44-pound kettlebell from their latest foldable between two tables, this one a mini smartphone. Though I’m not clear this translates to toughness, it was a fantastic show. Next time, let’s see how tough it is; place your newest thousand-dollar-plus gadget close to a three-year-old.
Oppo claims that the smaller external screen is made of nanocrystal glass, with a ceramic outer layer to increase drop and scratch resistance. The company also claims that a new anti-shock film able to absorb impact has strengthened the inner screen and raised shock resistance by seventy percent. Â
Along with a literal list of water resistances—IPX6 (resistant to intense water jets), IPX8 (resistant to being submerged in water deeper than 1 meter), and IPX9 (resistant to strong, high-temperature water jets), the Find N5 also comes with I agree if you believe that at least one of those has to be redundant.
The first foldable claiming all that protection is the Find N5. It does not have a dust-resistance certification, though, which would concern current foldable users who have been coping with that microscopic piece of dust caught in their years-old smartphone screens.
Improvements in cameras centre on the periscope telephoto shooter, which is improved to a 50MP sensor from the 32MP one seen on the Find N3. Previously 2X on its predecessor, the Find N5 can now punch into 3X optical zoom.
Your mileage may vary here; a lossless 6X zoom uses artificial intelligence to sharpen detail. Although most phones have lossless choices that seem too smooth and transform most zoomed-in faces into nightmares, at least they provide an option.
Additionally, using a macro mode, the periscope telephoto camera lets you zoom in closer while preserving clear focus and detail. Usually, macro photography is not successful with a smartphone. Your phone will create shadows on your subject.
You may not get your camera close enough. Early shots on the Find N5 show promise; a four-inch focus distance solves most of this problem. Though it’s not the first time we have seen the function—both the Huawei P60 Pro and vivo X100 Ultra offer telephoto macros—it is rare in most handsets headed west. Usually, we hope for the best and must make do with a macro option on the ultrawide camera.
Along with some Hasselblad help, the camera has several recognizable characteristics, including portrait mode and lightning snap burst shooting. Oppo’s perspective on unblurring and sharpening artificial intelligence helps accentuate the latter, and it is a small smartphone. Fold in an AI eraser and reflection remover to match the current Google and Samsung flagships.
Like the OnePlus Open, multitasking has specific enhancements. Oppo’s version is Boundless View, where you can move second and even third programs into shrinkable windows from a triple-dot icon. Numerous capabilities are now accessible.
You may automatically extend one app by tapping the top bar above another, but leave a sliver of the other app in view to make switching between them more manageable.
One clever feature of the Find N5 is that it tracks your multitasking and provides a cue to use two apps in split-screen mode. I find this a good reminder of the value of this form factor even though I do not utilize book-style foldable.
The O+ app, which lets you manage files on your phone and even fling them across to your Mac, is another addition to the suite. An Oppo executive demonstrated pretty unremarkable during the meeting how simple it was to copy a picture between devices. (Consider all the choices for clouds we have in 2025).
What caught me, though, was the Remote Mac Control. The Oppo spokesman interacted with their Mac using the onscreen trackpad and keyboard with Find N5 propped up and half-folded. I tested this function with my ancient Intel MacBook Pro since it works with Intel and Apple Silicon-based Macs.Â
Does anyone remember and yearn for that VAIO laptop that fits your jeans pocket? Not at all. Just me? Alone with me. Still, it seemed right using that. Although you won’t be working daily from it, it’s valuable and impressive if there are files or basic chores you must finish in Photoshop or another PC program.
Since you have to install programs on your Mac and the Find N6, it’s not quite as simple or seamless as Apple’s own Continuity service. Oppo promises a future update that will let you move files from the native Files app of Find N5 to your Mac without using Remote Mac Control.
