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World's Thinnest Foldable Phone Launches in Europe and Asia
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I have an honor magic v3 and you can't see the bend straight on. If you look for it you can see the crease, but no discoloration. Apparently this Oppo N5 is a further improvement on that tech.
Foldables have come a long way. This one is actually TÜV certified from Germany which is also being used to check every car that is roaming the streets in Germany and also certified to withstand not only 30 minutes in water but also certified for HIGH PRESSURE water impact.
The phone has wireless charging, wireless only is fine by the EU. The port is presumably only there because people want it.
I hope the silly camera bump shows people that it is a terrible decision to make a phone too thin to accommodate all the components that it needs…
I don’t think we should be measuring the thickness of a phone and excluding the camera bump. Not to mention the majority of people would rather have a bigger battery and no camera bump, than the “thinnest ever” and a **** battery.
This is a foldable. It needs to be thin because you need to take into consideration that it will be twice as thick when folded
I'm not buying this one.
Waiting for a phone that's thinner than two sheets of paper. This is still too thick for me.
So I'm waiting for the next year I guess.
Waiting for a phone that's thinner than two sheets of paper. This is still too thick for me.
So I'm waiting for the next year I guess.
Apple is getting its clocks cleaned by these competitor phones.
Yeah but remember this also has basically what 3 times the screen size, sure it wont all be open at once but it is a factor to consider. When in regular phone mode it should be ok, but in iPad form no idea what that will do to battery performance.
Apple Users: Meh, solving a problem that doesn't exist, pointless, nobody wants it.
Also Apple Users: OMFG, an Apple foldable phone, why has it taken so long? I have been waiting for this forever.
Also Apple Users: OMFG, an Apple foldable phone, why has it taken so long? I have been waiting for this forever.
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Do you mean Apple corporate people or us consumers? Because I think one of the two seem to generally know already. It's the other that is pushing "thinner" whether we collectively want it or not.
I appreciate that you added "on paper". Most likely, a much larger screen and less efficient chips will still return a bad battery life, but we'll see.
Only 0.7mm thicker than 16 Pro, it is a real game changer.
Oppo has launched the Find N5, the world's thinnest foldable phone yet. When closed, the book-style foldable measures 8.93mm. That's less than a millimeter thicker than an iPhone 16 Pro, and thinner than the Honor Magic V3, which was the previous record holder.
The device is barely thicker than its USB-C port. Indeed, Oppo has suggested that the obstacle to making it any thinner is now "the limit of the charging port." It's already thinner than a headphone jack, which is probably why there isn't one.
When opened, the Find N5 is 4.21mm at its thinnest point, which is actually thicker than the new Huawei Mate XT Ultimate tri-fold phone at 3.66mm – so the "world's thinnest" claim only applies when the Find N5 is closed. It has a 6.62-inch outer screen, a titanium hinge, and a 8.2-inch square inner LTPO display, which (as Marques Brownlee notes) is more screen real estate than an iPad mini.
On the back is a ring triple camera system featuring a 50MP main sensor with optical image stabilization (OIS). That's accompanied by a smaller 50MP periscope telephoto sensor with 3x optical zoom and OIS, and an 8MP ultra-wide camera.
The Find N5 has IPX6, X8, and X9 ratings, so it can survive immersion and sprayed water, but not dust or dirt. It features a Snapdragon 8 Elite processor and a 5,600mAh battery, and the whole package weighs in at a relatively light 229 grams. However, it will also make your wallet lighter – the phone's starting price is 2,499 Singapore dollars, which is around $1,867 USD.
In addition to the slim profile, the Find N5 can connect to a Mac for file transfers and remote control using Oppo's O Plus Connect app on the Mac, according to The Verge.
Except for the US, the Find N5 is available in markets globally, including Europe and Asia. The phone was expected to be re-branded as the OnePlus Open 2 in the US, but Oppo's sister brand says it has no plans to launch a foldable phone this year, so it looks like Americans will miss out.
The smartphone market is fascinated with thinness right now. Samsung recently teased its super-thin Galaxy S25 Edge, following reports that Apple is planning to launch a so-called iPhone 17 Air in September. The rumored device, which will replace the Plus model in its next-generation iPhone 17 lineup, is expected to be Apple's thinnest iPhone to date.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that the iPhone 17 Air will be 5.5mm thick at its thinnest point, which likely means that it will have a 5.5mm chassis with a thicker rear camera bump area.
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Yes (although I don’t desire a foldable phone), but everyone is obsessed with making the thinnest version of every phone.
Also, the camera bump is still there, so the thinness isn’t as thin as it could be. Either drop the bump, or embrace it and fill the extra space with more battery.
Yay you can unfold your phone to watch movies in a letterbox aspect ratio that’s worse than the phones front screen.
I'm gonna guess you're in the minority. Even with a Pro Max, I've wished for a larger screen.
Umm - this unfolds to have more screen real estate than an iPad Mini
Does the 16 Pro do that and I missed it?
Apparently @Stevez67 disagrees that you would like that. Please consult them in future to find out what opinions you hold.
Ok so who else watch the video for this and thought it was Apple’s product 😂 does look great though.
It’s an almost identically sized battery to the iPad mini, which has a very similarly sized screen.
I'd argue regulation clearly wasn't needed - the free market was working. Everyone had already moved to USB-C, with one very notable exception (and I'd argue that very notable exception was clearly moving to USB-C, although I know many on here disagree with me about that). And now no one is going to bother to invest resources in designing a new port, because why would you invest tens of millions of dollars to do so and then probably another fifty to a hundred million to get it popularized if you don't know if that port will be able to be used in the EU.
Remember the EU originally wanted to standardize on Micro-USB - if you seriously think about that I don't know how you can actually say "yep, standardizing what port devices use in law is a good idea." Maybe in ten years we would have laughed at "big, clunky USB-C ports". But now we'll never know
I agree with others that removing the charging port all-together is where we will be going, but does present issues, that while I sure am solvable, will be annoying - (restoring hosed phones and non-bluetooth headphones jump out off the top off my head).
Just seems like a stupid own-goal that freezes innovation while mandating something that was clearly going to happen anyway. We really shouldn't want government bureaucrats designing state-of-the-art tech products. Again, they thought standardizing on micro-USB was a good idea, and we see other bureaucrats demanding encryption backdoors. They shouldn't be in the business of deciding how the hardware and software is designed because, in my opinion, they clearly don't know what they're doing.