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There are always a few reasons people give for not buying a foldable phone. Some — price, battery life, camera quality — are mostly a matter of manufacturers balancing spec sheets to offset the added cost of the folding hardware. Others — durability, size — were practical design problems that have mostly been solved. But the crease always felt different, fundamental: something that foldables would be stuck with no matter what.
Oppo disagrees.
It claims that the Find N6 is the first foldable with a “zero-feel” crease, one so subtle that you can hardly tell it’s there. And while there’s just a hint of marketing exaggeration there, Oppo isn’t too far off. The crease may not be gone entirely, but it’s hard to imagine this version of it putting anyone off buying the Find N6.
That wouldn’t be enough on its own, but the Find N6 also offers clever multitasking software, a slim design, stylus support, and impressive battery life. The cameras still feel like the main compromise you make buying this over one of Oppo’s traditional Find X9 flagships, but they’re up there with the best in other foldables. Taken as a whole, that makes this the best foldable phone on the market right now — but only if you’re in one of the handful of countries where it’s sold, since the Find N6 is only available in China and a few other Asian countries, plus Australia and New Zealand, with no US or European launch at all. In Australia, it’ll set you back $3,299 AUD — around $2,300 USD.
I’ve got to start with the crease. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about how Oppo achieved its nearly creaseless display, but in short, it uses 3D liquid printing to fill the gaps in the hinge itself, creating a more even surface for the foldable screen to sit on top of.
Head-on, the crease is essentially invisible. Though you can sometimes see it faintly from an angle, under the right lighting. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold (right) has a substantially more visible crease.
The result is pretty astonishing. You can see the crease, but only when you tilt the phone in just the right way so that it catches the light just right; you can feel it, but only when you try to, passing your finger back and forth across the central column and concentrating on the sensation. The rest of the time, it might as well not be there. Holding the Find N6 next to Honor’s recently announced Magic V6, the crease is obviously shallower and subtler; next to Google’s six-month-old Pixel 10 Pro Fold the difference is night and day.
The question is how much this really matters. The crease clearly bothers plenty of prospective foldable buyers, at least in theory. It’s always one of the first things people mention when considering a foldable, or that friends look for when trying out one I’m reviewing. The flip side is that creases basically got good enough several years ago — it’s been a long time since a crease really bothered me during a phone review, and I normally forget it’s there within an hour or two of using a phone. In practice, Oppo has simply shaved that adjustment period down to near-zero, but it’s the kind of change that has the potential to really get more people buying foldables. I mean, not as much as Apple launching a foldable would, but still, the Android companies are out here trying their best.
The Find N6 ships with Android 16, and will get five more OS updates.
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