TWO WEEKS WITH THE OPPO FIND N
Fold little heart Oppo’s Find N is the latest flexible flyer and it’s a bit more cute and cuddly than most… Dan Grabham finds out if the foldable concept has finally come of age £tba / stuff.tv/FindN
Half-folding the screen and standing it up is great for watching stuff… at least until it snaps back.
DAY 01 Foldable phones remain a niche pursuit, but they’re the kind of niche pursuit everybody wants to get involved with. So we unpack Oppo’s Find N with glee; like other foldables we’ve seen (especially Samsung’s Z Fold3), it feels fresh and different to the multitude of glass rectangles out there. But there is one key difference with the Oppo: it’s more compact than its rivals, and is designed to be more
pocketable. Certainly it sits in a jeans pocket comfortably. Compared to the Z Fold3, which has 6.2in and 7.6in displays, the Find N keeps it tidy with 5.49in (external) and 7.1in (internal) screens, both super-bright AMOLED jobs with up to 1000 nits of brightness. The external display boasts the spec du jour of the smartphone world: a variable refresh rate (up to 120Hz). No surprise that our entire first day
You’ve got to really prod the screen to tell that it’s anything other than pancake-flat – it’s just not an issue
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with this phone is spent with that big ol’ display folded out. You don’t notice the crease once it’s unfolded – foldable phone tech has really moved on here, and the way this display works is designed to prevent any kind of line from showing. You’ve got to really prod the screen to tell that it’s anything other than pancake-flat, and we can’t see any evidence of issues arising from the folding display – it’s just not an issue. It is a heavy phone, though, at 275g – and that weight can be a drag if you generally use a relatively light handset. Well, if
you want to live your tech life at the cutting edge… A side-mounted fingerprint reader on the power button takes care of the biometrics, while the only other physical control on the side is the volume rocker. Because the two sides with the buttons are together when folded, I’m finding it easy to hit the wrong button when trying to turn the display off. The button is recessed because it’s the fingerprint reader, but it still makes things more difficult. The idea is that you just need to rest your finger there to unlock… well, maybe I’ll get used to it.
