The Chinese company Oppo, which specializes in the development and manufacture of consumer electronics, including smartphones, on Thursday, February 20, presented its new flagship folding phone model Find N5.
The mentioned device has a slim body and features focused on artificial intelligence. In this case, according to media reports, Oppo is trying to offer the market a smartphone that can fully compete with high-утв folding phones from manufacturers such as Huawei and Samsung.
Currently, it is known that the Find N5, which can fold in half, will have a starting price of 2,499 Singapore dollars (US$1,867.70). When folded, this smartphone does not have any visual features that would radically distinguish it from other devices of the corresponding category in terms of external characteristics.
The new phone from Oppo has a 6.62-inch display when folded shut. If this device is folded outwards, it transforms into a larger 8.12-inch tablet.
One of the most notable features of the smartphone unveiled on Thursday is its ultra-thin design. When closed, the smartphone measures 8.93 millimeters thick. When opened out in tablet form, the device has a depth of 4.21 millimeters.
The Find N5 is slimmer than Samsung’s Galaxy Ford 6, which the South Korean technology giant released last year.
Inside the new Oppo device is a razer-thin 5,600 milliampere-hour battery, which is no bigger than a credit card. The company also stated that the battery incorporates silicon-carbon material, which enables high capacity despite its small size.
Oppo expects that at some point in the foreseeable future, it will be able to win business from players such as Samsung and Huawei, the most dynamically developing player in the Chinese technology sector. Currently, there is a kind of tendency in which smartphone manufacturers are striving to shake the market of corresponding devices out of an innovation slowdown with new models that can bend.
It’s worth mentioning that Huawei launched the Mate XT, a trifold phone with three screens, for the first time outside China this week.
Recently, Oppo, like many other smartphone manufacturers, has been making financial injections into AI-focused functions on the device.
The Find N5 has a triple camera that includes a telephoto lens that can zoom in up to 30x as a result of an artificial intelligence-powered image enhancement feature called AI Telescope Zoom. The new smartphone from Oppo also has a personal machine intelligence assistant that can interpret and summarize documents, generate summaries of phone calls, and translate video calls and other content displayed on the screen. As part of the responses to privacy questions, the company stated that some data is processed directly on the device, while other information materials are stored in the cloud. It is worth noting that Oppo uses Google as a partner in artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies in international markets.
The company spokesman, while talking to media representatives, stated that the firm strictly abides by local laws, regulations, and privacy security protection requirements.
Last month, Samsung launched additional artificial intelligence capabilities in its new flagship Galaxy S25 series, including the ability to perform tasks in multiple apps when prompted and Google Gemini AI assistant integration.
Oppo talked up a new feature that allows users to connect their phone to a Mac computer. The O+ Connect app provides the ability to link the Find N5 to any Mac desktop machine and instantly transfer photos and other files between devices if they are connected to the same Wi-Fi framework.
Consumers can also remotely control their Mac using a new smartphone from Oppo. The Mac’s display can shut off and then reappear on the Find N5′s screen. The remote control feature requires mobile internet or Wi-Fi to sync up a Mac device’s data with the Find N5 in real time.
The mentioned feature uses publicly available macOS application programming interfaces that allow two different apps to interact with each other. Oppo stated that O+ Connect is fully compliant with the macOS platform and software regulations.
Ben Wood, chief analyst at market research firm CCS Insight, said during a conversation with media representatives that the new smartphone from the Chinese manufacturer demonstrates the art of the possible when engineering a product with flexible display technology. The expert also noted that although the Mate XT with a triple screen led to some fanfare, the smart money is still on the book-like form factor which is already offered by Samsung, Honor, Google, and now Oppo.
It is worth mentioning that last month, at its Unpacked event, Samsung demonstrated a prototype of a trifold smartphone. At the same time, there is still no information about the future of this device. In particular. It is unknown whether the company will launch sales of the trifold smartphone in 2025. It is worth noting that sometimes prototypes never become mass-produced. It is possible that Samsung will not eventually launch sales of the trifold smartphone.
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