Oppo Find N5, thin as a coffee stirrer, excels in battery, design and durability

The Oppo Find N5 is now official (and what's even better, available outside China!), so if you have even the slightest interest in foldables, you should be pretty excited right now.

That's the world's thinnest book-style foldable right now, surpassed only by the Sci-Fi gorgeosity Huawei Mate XT Ultimate, which is the world's first tri-folding smartphone, measuring 3.6mm when unfolded.

In a world where traditional candy bar phones plateaued, more or less, real innovation is a territory reserved for foldables to explore and dominate. They might not be everyone's cup of tea at the moment, true. Foldables are too expensive, exotic and (perceived as) fragile for people to buy en masse.



Multiple screens, a durable hinge, potent enough chipset and battery, good enough camera: it's more than one front that a foldable can fail, but the Oppo Find N5 attempts to address it all: to be sleek and thin, with an outstanding performance and amazing camera, while being incredibly durable.

Let's delve deeper into the Oppo Find N5.

Battery: 30% higher capacity, 30% thinner

The Oppo Find N5 battery will make you smile with its 5,600 mAh capacity, but it's also incredibly thin. Oppo claims that compared to rival foldables, the Find N5's battery is "30% higher-capacity, despite also being 30% thinner".

That's all thanks to the fact that the phone introduces the latest silicon-carbon battery, featuring 10% silicon content – the highest ever in a foldable phone battery. At just 2.1mm thick, the battery is even slimmer than the 4,800mAh unit in the Find N3.

By using silicon-carbon materials instead of traditional graphite, the battery can store more lithium ions, boosting energy density and enabling lighter, thinner batteries with higher capacity.

With improved energy density, the Find N5 is claimed to deliver up to 25 hours of video streaming or almost 9 hours of nonstop Zoom calls. That's a pretty long Zoom call, but if you have those at your job, the Find N5 could get you through it on a single charge. I don't want to imagine what the analyst bill will be after a 9-hour Zoom call, though.

Oppo is also pointing out that the foldable should, in theory, last through a 19-hour flight from Singapore to New York (the world’s longest non-stop flight) on a single charge. The question is: are WC breaks counted?!

Let's move on to the charging. The 80W SUPERVOOC fast charger powers up the handset in under 50 minutes, while 50W AIRVOOC wireless charging sounds extremely convenient. Oppo has also introduced a magnetic charging ecosystem, including a case, power bank, and charger.

I can assure you that superfast charging speeds are just so, so convenient – it's definitely not another marketing trick. The industry should embrace 80-100W!

Design: less than 9mm thin when folded

Find N5 is the first foldable smartphone with the Snapdragon 8 Elite. This is great news, as this chipset delivers a 45% faster CPU, a 40% faster and more efficient GPU, and improved ray tracing for smoother gameplay and enhanced performance.

But this beast is not impressive solely on the inside. Although it's so smart as well!