‘World’s thinnest’ foldable

 Oppo Find N5, the world’s thinnest folding phone 

Oppo has officially announced that the Find N5, the world's thinnest book-style folding phone, will launch globally on February 20. When closed, there is no thinner foldable phone in the world than the Oppo Find N5. Oppo’s new foldable feels impossibly thin. In just ten days time, Oppo will launch the Find N5, the world’s thinnest book-style foldable. Given here are the early impressions of phone. Oppo is careful to use that “book-style” disclaimer, because the Find N5 isn’t quite as thin as Huawei’s trifold Mate XT, launched in China last year. Not when open that is, though the Find N5 is comfortably thinner than Huawei’s phone when closed, helped by only having two panels to fold, not three.

It is an impressive device that genuinely feels like a normal slab phone when folded. You would be amazed at just how thin the Find N5 felt in-hand, and can already foresee the device joining our list of the best Oppo phones (and, if availability allows, the best foldable phones). It feels outstandingly thin, so much so that the USB-C port is separated from the outside of the phone by what feels like a hair’s breadth of metal. Without ditching the port entirely, it’s hard to see how we get phones much thinner than this. What’s striking is that despite that, the phone feels solid, sturdy even. It doesn’t buckle under pressure, and Everything will find a way to make the phone snap, it doesn’t feel like at risk of doing it by mistake.

The Find N5 comes equipped with a triple-camera bump on the rear panel, and while the phone isn’t exactly light, it’s not noticeably heavier than a typical flagship. Oppo has also tried to reduce the visibility of the display’s crease. It is there, and it is visible, but only when it catches the light at just the right angle, and it’s almost impossible to feel with your finger. The crease isn’t gone just yet, but at this point it’s close enough that it’s difficult to imagine being bothered by it. What’s more, the crease on the inside of the phone's display, has been further reduced in both width and depth. It’s much flatter than the bold crease on the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, and combined with the nicer ergonomics.

The Find N5 is launching in black and white models, though there’s a rather nifty looking purple vegan (aka, fake) leather model that seems to be China-only, which is a real shame. It runs Oppo’s ColorOS Android skin, which means it should boast the same powerful multitasking features that were such a big draw on the previous generation. Oppo claims that the Find N5 is the world’s new thinnest book-style foldable, which would mean besting the Honor Magic V3’s unfolded thickness of 4.4mm. As mentioned, it certainly feels like another step forward for foldable phone design. It will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chip; boasts a full array of IPX6, IPX8, and IPX9 water-resistance certifications; and packs in wireless charging as well as wired.

The Find N5 launches in China and internationally next week, though not the US. That could still come later though. The previous-gen Find N3 eventually hit US stores as the OnePlus Open, and so it’s a safe bet that a version of the Find N5 with a OnePlus logo will be announced Stateside before too long.