Oppo has launched the Discover N5, the thinnest foldable telephone on this planet. It’s launching in markets worldwide, together with throughout Europe and Asia, at $2,499 SGD (about $1,867 USD). That’s costlier than both the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 or Google Pixel 9 Professional Fold in Singapore, although comparable when you regulate for storage. There gained’t be any US launch in any respect although, as sister model OnePlus has already confirmed that it has no plans to launch a foldable telephone this 12 months.
The Discover N5 is slimmer than any rival foldable, as long as you measure it when closed. At 8.93mm it’s thinner than the earlier document holder, final 12 months’s Honor Magic V3, and fewer than a millimeter thicker than an iPhone 16 Professional. Open the telephone up and it’s simply 4.21mm at its thinnest level — so skinny that Oppo informed me it needed to customise the USB-C port to even match — although measured this fashion it’s fractionally thicker than Huawei’s 3.6mm trifold Mate XT, which additionally acquired a worldwide launch this week.
The telephone has IPX6, X8, and X9 scores, which means it’s protected in opposition to each submersion and spraying water however not mud or filth — arguably the larger threats to folding telephones. Oppo has additionally made the show crease each narrower and shallower, making it more durable to identify or really feel whereas swiping.
A 5,600mAh battery is surprisingly spacious for the telephone’s dimension, and was ok for 2 days of use at a time whereas I used to be testing the telephone for my evaluation. Oppo has additionally managed to slot in wi-fi charging, one of many large omissions from the earlier Discover N3 (there was no N4, because it’s thought of an unfortunate quantity in China).
The telephone makes use of a 7-core model of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and is available in only one configuration, with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The Hasselblad-branded cameras are spectacular too, with 50-megapixel fundamental and telephoto lenses joined by a 12-megapixel ultrawide.
The Discover N5 is launching in Europe and Asia, with a launch date of February twenty eighth up to now solely confirmed for Singapore. Whereas we had hoped for a US launch underneath the OnePlus model — the Discover N3 launched Stateside because the OnePlus Open — it’s been confirmed that OnePlus is skipping this technology, and so the Discover N5 is only one extra telephone that US patrons gained’t have the choice to choose up.
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