With its Find N2 Flip, Oppo is entering the foldable smartphone market in force by attacking a flagship model, the Galaxy Z Flip 4. And this luxurious phone has many arguments to seduce.
Foldable smartphones (or folding, it depends) finally seem to arouse the interest of manufacturers. Having started well in the lead in 2019 with its Galaxy Z Fold and -Galaxy Z Flip series, the Korean Samsung has had plenty of time to settle in the market and occupy the field in the face of competition that is otherwise absent, to say the least timid. The brands to have rubbed shoulders with can be counted on the fingers of one hand, in France at least (read our face to face between the Z Flip4 and the Motorola Razr). 2023 could well reshuffle the cards. If Huawei, still deprived of Android, remains present but in a marginal way, this is not the case for other Chinese manufacturers such as Oppo, which is preparing to launch two models of foldable smartphones during the first quarter: the Find N2 and the Find N2 Flip. Only the second, the Find N2 Flip, a smartphone in clamshell format, will be marketed in France. The Find N2, which competes with the Galaxy Z Fold, is reserved for the Chinese market. Oppo explains this choice by the size of the device, which is more compact and lower than a Galaxy Z Fold, and whose square-format internal screen is better suited to the content found on app stores. Chinese online. The Find N2 Flip, which for its part adopts a more traditional screen format, will therefore be the brand’s first foldable device to be available in France. It is therefore obviously this model that will interest us.
Oppo Find N2 Flip: Oppo puts the package on the valve
Oppo’s clamshell smartphone offers a neat design whose finishes seem, if not equal, at least to approach that of Samsung’s Z Flip4. The most striking difference is on its external screen. Where the Korean device is content with a very small 1.9-inch Oled screen, the Oppo N2 Flip uses a 3.2-inch screen, placed vertically, alongside the two photo modules. A beautiful surface to be able to admire yourself during a selfie session, without cropping the image, but also to use many functions of the smartphone without opening it.
Once opened, the Find N2 Flip reveals a 6.8-inch FHD+ OLED screen refreshed at 120 Hz. Oppo has worked particularly well on the hinge, a sensitive element in this type of smartphone, just like the screen fold.
The device is powered by a Mediatek Dimensity 9000+ processor, an SoC engraved in 4 nm and whose performance is comparable to that of a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 from Qualcomm. For the photo, the device has a 50 Mpx wide-angle sensor and an 8 Mpx ultra wide-angle module. Finally, it relies on a 4300 mAh battery compatible with 44 W fast charging.
Launched today in China, the Find N2 Flip should land in the first quarter of 2023 in France. No price has yet been announced, but Oppo claims to follow in the footsteps of the foldable clamshell models currently available. We should therefore see the price fluctuate between 1100 and 1400 euros.