OPPO Find N5 Launch: New Slimness Benchmark for Foldables

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Feb 28, 2025
  • OPPO’s newly released flagship, the Find N5, expands the brand’s premium product portfolio.

  • Through hinge technology and materials innovation, OPPO has reduced the thickness of the Find N5 to 8.93mm, the thinnest foldable smartphone ever produced.

  • Through O+ connect, Find N5 bridges the gap between MacOS computers and Find N5, making the model more productive.

  • The OPPO Find N5’s Chinese variant employs DeepSeek, while the global variant uses Google Gemini.

OPPO has released its new flagship foldable smartphone, the OPPO Find N5, in China and Singapore, the brand’s latest effort in strengthening its position in the premium segment. The Find N5 is the first foldable model featuring the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite platform and is set to be released in other regions soon. Compared to its predecessor, the OPPO Find N5 has a thinner grip experience, better reliability, and more convenience in multi-device interconnectivity scenarios.

Slim with Big Display Experience

The thickness of the OPPO Find N5 is 8.93mm when folded and 4.21mm when expanded. It weighs 229g. OPPO uses grade-5 titanium alloy materials and 3D printing technologies in the hinge design, which not only reduces thickness, but also improves strength the reliability. The OPPO Find N5 adopts an 8.12-inch AMOLED inner display and a 6.62-inch AMOLED cover display, both of which support eye-protection features. The inner displays UTG and the hinges high-strength steel design ensure the creases remain flat even after multiple folds. These innovations provide good support for the Find N5's slim grip and reliability.

The Slim Design of the OPPO Find N5 and its Hinge

Source: OPPO

Long Battery Life and High-level Waterproof Performance

The Find N5 features a 5600mAh Silicon-Carbon battery set, which, together with the efficient Snapdragon 8 Elite platform, provides a longer battery life. Based on the 80W SUPERVOOC quick charging, the Find N5 is equipped with 50W AIRVOOC wireless charging to meet the energy supplement requirements in different scenarios. Furthermore, with the help of internal structural design innovations, the device’s waterproof performance has been upgraded to IPX9 level. This foldable smartphone can resist water jets at extreme temperatures.

5600mAh Capacity Battery Set and 80W Quick Charging

Source: OPPO

Multi-device Interconnectivity Experience

According to OPPO, the Find N5 is not just a smartphone but a tool for increasing productivity. The smartphone’s ColorOS 15 enables seamless connection with MacOS. Once the O+ Connect app is installed on a Mac, photos, videos, and documents can be quickly and easily shared between both devices. Furthermore, with a digital keyboard, the Mac can be remotely controlled via the Find N5 and vice versa, making it more flexible for consumers to choose how and where to work. Various applications based on Gen AI and system optimization of multiple applications on the same display bring much convenience to users. These innovations can make the large inner display work to their advantage and meet more business and work scenarios. The Find N5’s Chinese variant employs DeepSeek, while the global variant uses Google Gemini.

Multi-device Interconnectivity Application

Source: OPPO

For the camera, the Find N5 uses a similar Hasselblad photographic system used in the Find X8 series, enabling tele-macro photography for the first time on an OPPO device. This helps capture more details of subjects such as food, flowers, and insects.

Conclusion

The OPPO Find series smartphones have always been at the forefront of bringing the companys most advanced technologies and R&D breakthroughs to the market. All innovations on the Find N5 focus on the user experience, including the slim grip and large inner display, reflecting OPPOs insights into premium user demands. This also highlights the brand’s R&D capabilities and technologies. The global release of the OPPO Find N5 provides differentiated services for various users and highlights OPPO's determination to establish itself in the premium market.

According to Counterpoints foldable smartphone sales tracker, book-type foldables had a 67% share in the China market in 2024. With the brand’s technological advances in thickness, hinge, weight, and battery capacity, along with its global expansion strategy, OPPO is making book-type foldables more user-friendly for a wider range of consumers.

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Feb 28, 2025

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