Oppo’s Find N5 feels like the end game for foldable phones. Not because it’s make or break for a segment of the phone market that never quite took off like manufacturers hoped it would, but because I simply don’t know where we go from here. There’s scarcely room to make the phone thinner without ditching USB-C entirely; battery life, performance, and even cameras are now on par with other flagship phones; and this time, Oppo even managed to fit wireless charging and water resistance in, too. This is what we were promised all along. Now what?
Hardware and cameras
It’s hard to see how the hardware improves much further. At 8.93mm thick when closed, this is the thinnest foldable in the world, shaving almost half a millimeter off the previous record holder, Honor’s Magic V3. It’s just 4.21mm thin when it’s open, which proves there’s still space to trim — Huawei’s trifold Mate XT runs to just 3.6mm — but we’re close to at least one hard physical limit. Oppo told me it had to customize the USB-C port to fit it into a phone this thin. There’s only a hair’s breadth of metal on the port’s outer edge. If foldable phones are going to get meaningfully thinner, USB-C has to go first.
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Every comparison you can make to other devices sounds impressive. When closed, this is less than a millimeter thicker than an iPhone 16 Pro Max or Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and weighs only 2g more than the Apple phone. Open, it boasts a bigger screen than an iPad Mini but is thinner and weighs less. It’s lighter than any of the foldables you can buy in the US right now and is a full 3mm thinner than the Galaxy Z Fold 6. It’s hard to overstate how astonishing the Find N5 feels and how few compromises there are to its design and build. I keep picking it up and marveling at the engineering.
That applies to the 8.12-inch main display, too, where Oppo has worked to reduce the crease where the screen bends. It’s still visible, but only when it catches the light just right, making it easier to ignore than to notice.
Yes, there’s still a crease. No, it doesn’t matter.
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