There's a new folding phone coming in a few weeks, and it is shaping up to be the best folding phone this year. Here's why it'll challenge Samsung and Google.
Table of Contents Honor, Google, Xiaomi, and Vivo all launched new folding phones last year that were designed to compete with Samsung and the Galaxy Z Fold 6. Yet, the challenge was not just matching Samsung, but also beating a foldable launched the previous year.
Related Rather than launch a new folding phone before it was ready, Oppo chose to wait. The company has been steadily teasing various features on its new folding phone, and as it turns out, the wait was likely worth it. I’m ridiculously excited about the Oppo Find N5, and the best thing is that it will probably also launch as the OnePlus Open 2 in the US and some global markets.
New frontiers for durability Durability has always been a concern for potential folding phone customers, thanks to the larger second display and a hinge. However, durability has vastly improved since the first Galaxy Fold and most folding phones now offer similar levels of durability to their non-folding counterparts.
The Oppo Find N5, aka the Open 2? It’ll feature an IPX9 rating, meaning it offers the same resistance not only to water but also to high-pressure jets. The other phones that feature a similar rating? The Oppo Find X8 Pro and the OnePlus 13, the latter of which works fine after being thrown in a hot dishwasher. It’s unclear whether there’ll also be dust resistance, but this will set a standard for water resistance in folding phones.
One key issue with all folding phones is that most phone makers choose an inferior camera to non-folding equivalent phones. The Find N5 could solve this and set a standard thanks to the rumored triple Hasselblad camera featuring a periscope telephoto lens; if the OnePlus 13 is any indication, this could be a fantastic camera.
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