1 00:00:02,613 --> 00:00:03,443 Okay, 2 00:00:03,524 --> 00:00:06,302 so I've been saying for years that foldables are for early adopters only, 3 00:00:06,384 --> 00:00:08,407 and they don't make sense for regular people 4 00:00:08,609 --> 00:00:09,439 until 5 00:00:09,648 --> 00:00:12,341 the only difference between a foldable and a regular phone 6 00:00:12,544 --> 00:00:14,996 is the fact that one of them happens to fold in half, 7 00:00:15,079 --> 00:00:16,576 and there's no other compromises. 8 00:00:16,658 --> 00:00:20,137 So when this all got started seven years ago with the Galaxy Fold 1, 9 00:00:20,338 --> 00:00:22,666 it was really exciting that it folded in half, 10 00:00:22,748 --> 00:00:25,965 but there were obviously a ton of compromises back then to make 11 00:00:26,047 --> 00:00:27,589 that happen for the first time. 12 00:00:27,672 --> 00:00:30,103 From the huge bezels on that cover screen, to... 13 00:00:30,185 --> 00:00:31,015 to the smaller, 14 00:00:31,097 --> 00:00:33,140 subpar cameras and battery and other specs, 15 00:00:33,222 --> 00:00:36,441 the extremely compromised durability, and of course the crease, 16 00:00:36,523 --> 00:00:39,142 the massive crease through the middle. So every year, 17 00:00:39,223 --> 00:00:42,494 foldables have gotten better and better and better and better from 18 00:00:42,576 --> 00:00:44,171 a bunch of different companies... 19 00:00:44,253 --> 00:00:46,966 as they slowly tackled each one of those compromises... 20 00:00:47,048 --> 00:00:50,523 So foldables have gotten thinner, and they've gotten bigger batteries, 21 00:00:50,604 --> 00:00:53,214 and they've gotten better hinges and smaller creases, 22 00:00:53,296 --> 00:00:55,247 and that's all led to this. The Oppo Find 23 00:00:55,810 --> 00:00:58,725 N6 does seem kind of random that this is now peak foldable, 24 00:00:58,807 --> 00:01:02,129 but I actually think by the end of this video you'll agree with me. 25 00:01:02,210 --> 00:01:06,030 So the obvious problem number one with old foldables was that they sucked to 26 00:01:06,111 --> 00:01:07,928 use one-handed since they're thicker, 27 00:01:08,010 --> 00:01:09,109 they have worse bezels, 28 00:01:09,191 --> 00:01:12,497 and just they're generally compromised versus a normal slab phone. 29 00:01:12,579 --> 00:01:14,912 But we've seen this string of thinner foldable phones, 30 00:01:14,995 --> 00:01:18,044 especially in the past few years, and now you look at the Oppo Find N6 31 00:01:18,245 --> 00:01:19,075 from the front, 32 00:01:19,158 --> 00:01:20,981 you'd hardly know it's just a normal slab phone. 33 00:01:21,063 --> 00:01:23,396 Now you do have the telltale, but asymmetrical, metal, 34 00:01:23,478 --> 00:01:26,304 so rounded corners on one side, square corners on the hinge side; 35 00:01:26,385 --> 00:01:27,780 that's how you'd be able to know. 36 00:01:27,861 --> 00:01:28,838 But other than that, 37 00:01:28,921 --> 00:01:31,115 it just looks like a normal 6.6-inch phone. 38 00:01:31,197 --> 00:01:34,608 Oppo has been absolutely cooking with the materials and the build, 39 00:01:34,689 --> 00:01:36,408 so when you pick it up and use it, 40 00:01:36,489 --> 00:01:40,588 it genuinely feels like a regular slab phone because it's the same size as one. 41 00:01:40,671 --> 00:01:43,289 Now this phone is just under 9 millimeters thin and 42 00:01:43,370 --> 00:01:45,186 weighs around 230 grams. For context, 43 00:01:45,269 --> 00:01:48,277 the iPhone 17 Pro Max is also just under 9 millimeters thin 44 00:01:48,358 --> 00:01:49,690 and around 230 grams. So... 45 00:01:49,772 --> 00:01:51,890 so this is effectively a no-compromises... 46 00:01:51,972 --> 00:01:53,881 normal phone, at least dimensions-wise 47 00:01:54,082 --> 00:01:55,623 before you even open the thing. 48 00:01:55,706 --> 00:01:57,405 So many of the previous foldables, 49 00:01:57,486 --> 00:02:01,018 I remember using them and it was like you can use the outside screen, 50 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:02,694 but you... didn't really want to; 51 00:02:02,775 --> 00:02:05,731 you'd rather just open it up and get to the better screen. 52 00:02:05,813 --> 00:02:07,886 But this, you could just use like normal. 53 00:02:07,968 --> 00:02:10,086 It's perfectly fine to take pictures with, 54 00:02:10,288 --> 00:02:13,820 to watch videos on, to text on, because the keyboard isn't too small, 55 00:02:14,022 --> 00:02:15,354 it's a normal aspect ratio. 56 00:02:15,556 --> 00:02:16,387 It's great. 57 00:02:16,468 --> 00:02:20,085 And it also has all the flagship specs by the way: 3600 nits peak brightness, 58 00:02:20,167 --> 00:02:21,500 and... 1800 nits fullscreen. 59 00:02:21,581 --> 00:02:24,151 So it's very viewable everywhere outdoors. 60 00:02:24,354 --> 00:02:27,998 Super responsive, 1-120Hz LTPO, high-frequency PWM dimming, 61 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:29,317 the whole thing. Now, 62 00:02:29,399 --> 00:02:32,433 folding in half also always has presented a bunch of challenges 63 00:02:32,515 --> 00:02:33,621 with just the physics of 64 00:02:33,824 --> 00:02:35,474 fitting stuff in a smaller, thinner 65 00:02:35,675 --> 00:02:37,077 form factor that has to split. 66 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:39,190 So for years these folding phones 67 00:02:39,393 --> 00:02:42,626 never really had flagship cameras because there wasn't enough room. 68 00:02:42,707 --> 00:02:45,891 And also the batteries would always be smaller because they had to 69 00:02:45,973 --> 00:02:47,474 split it in half around a hinge, 70 00:02:47,676 --> 00:02:50,662 which is tough 'cause you're trying to power a bigger display. 71 00:02:50,745 --> 00:02:51,575 But it's 2026. 72 00:02:51,657 --> 00:02:54,792 So now of course the tech has evolved to the point where we 73 00:02:54,873 --> 00:02:56,489 have silicon-carbon batteries. 74 00:02:56,570 --> 00:02:58,694 And this ultra-thin phone split in half 75 00:02:58,896 --> 00:03:01,134 still has a total of a 6,000 mAh battery! 76 00:03:01,217 --> 00:03:03,850 which is more than a lot of slab phones already, 77 00:03:04,051 --> 00:03:06,911 plus 80-watt charging and 50-watt wireless charging. 78 00:03:06,992 --> 00:03:10,587 And then as far as cameras: so the physical sensor size can never 79 00:03:10,669 --> 00:03:12,510 quite be the same as a slab phone, 80 00:03:12,592 --> 00:03:14,435 because again, it's split in half. 81 00:03:14,516 --> 00:03:17,739 So there's just not as much room in the Z-axis dimension. 82 00:03:17,820 --> 00:03:21,000 But there has been development of some big sen... 83 00:03:21,081 --> 00:03:25,525 with shallow Z-axis thickness specifically to fit in thinner phones. 84 00:03:25,728 --> 00:03:30,171 So this phone has the same ISOCELL HP5 sensor that's in the S25 Edge 85 00:03:30,373 --> 00:03:33,752 200 megapixels, 1/1.56 inches, optically stabilized. 86 00:03:33,835 --> 00:03:34,884 So there is that, 87 00:03:34,966 --> 00:03:39,010 plus a 50-megapixel ultrawide and a 50-megapixel 3x telephoto. 88 00:03:39,092 --> 00:03:41,001 And then, I don't know if you remember, 89 00:03:41,084 --> 00:03:44,218 but folding phones used to have significantly lesser chips too. 90 00:03:44,860 --> 00:03:46,055 Less room inside, less... 91 00:03:46,138 --> 00:03:47,218 less room for cooling. 92 00:03:47,300 --> 00:03:49,799 This phone has a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 inside, 93 00:03:49,882 --> 00:03:51,906 but a binned version with one less core. 94 00:03:51,987 --> 00:03:53,592 So for all intents and purposes, 95 00:03:53,674 --> 00:03:56,909 I think we can say it's a flagship chip and maximizing what you 96 00:03:56,991 --> 00:03:58,805 can do in that thin of a space. Plus, 97 00:03:58,888 --> 00:04:02,229 there's a new dedicated S1 chip for better network performance... 98 00:04:02,311 --> 00:04:04,125 So now, despite being ultra-thin and 99 00:04:04,326 --> 00:04:05,877 chopped in half, this thing has 100 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,659 flagship displays, flagship chips, flagship specs, high-end cameras. 101 00:04:09,741 --> 00:04:12,256 It's also IP59 water- and dust-resistance rated, 102 00:04:12,337 --> 00:04:15,501 which used to be nuts for foldables, but now you can just... 103 00:04:15,584 --> 00:04:17,882 spill water on this thing and it'll be fine. 104 00:04:17,964 --> 00:04:19,459 But the pièce de résistance 105 00:04:19,661 --> 00:04:20,490 for this 106 00:04:20,704 --> 00:04:21,926 N6 is, without question, 107 00:04:22,649 --> 00:04:23,733 this center display. 108 00:04:24,216 --> 00:04:25,045 For years... 109 00:04:25,127 --> 00:04:28,103 for folding phones, we've gotten used to them, you know, 110 00:04:28,185 --> 00:04:32,014 having an amazing folding screen, but also having a small crease... 111 00:04:32,096 --> 00:04:33,973 in the middle. And the crease, you know, 112 00:04:34,055 --> 00:04:36,303 it's just one of those things where on most phones, 113 00:04:36,505 --> 00:04:38,251 most of the time, it doesn't bother you. 114 00:04:38,334 --> 00:04:40,307 Trust me, as someone who's used these phones, 115 00:04:40,389 --> 00:04:42,683 I've said before: it's like bezels. Most of the time, 116 00:04:42,766 --> 00:04:44,740 you're just looking at the content or reading 117 00:04:44,942 --> 00:04:46,778 or typing, so you're not really seeing it. 118 00:04:46,860 --> 00:04:49,610 But every once in a while, it catches the light the right way, 119 00:04:49,692 --> 00:04:51,895 or you run your finger over it... and it just hits. 120 00:04:51,978 --> 00:04:54,821 You're reminded of it, and so you can still notice it sometimes. 121 00:04:54,903 --> 00:04:56,093 but!... not with this phone. 122 00:04:56,295 --> 00:04:59,514 So the N6 has this new thing they developed called the No-Feel Crease. 123 00:05:00,317 --> 00:05:01,146 And 124 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,701 I'd seen the marketing, I'd heard, I'd watched some videos about it, 125 00:05:03,783 --> 00:05:06,389 but they're mostly sponsored, so I was a bit skeptical... 126 00:05:06,471 --> 00:05:07,803 Okay. But I got it in my hands, 127 00:05:07,886 --> 00:05:09,920 and this thing is actually super impressive! 128 00:05:10,050 --> 00:05:13,085 You open it up, it's the classic big square, 8.1 inches, 129 00:05:13,166 --> 00:05:14,017 corner-to-corner, 130 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:17,653 same fullscreen brightness, same 1-120Hz LTPO, same PWM dimming. 131 00:05:17,735 --> 00:05:21,278 But you might notice there's basically no perceptible crease here. 132 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:22,266 I mean, there's... 133 00:05:22,348 --> 00:05:25,725 there's a little bit of crease if you're really looking for it. 134 00:05:25,807 --> 00:05:29,130 But compared to other foldables we've seen and that I've used, 135 00:05:29,692 --> 00:05:31,222 this is basically no crease. 136 00:05:31,305 --> 00:05:34,552 And the extra bit of engineering that goes into solving... 137 00:05:34,634 --> 00:05:35,528 this last problem 138 00:05:36,350 --> 00:05:37,932 is actually... very intricate. 139 00:05:38,014 --> 00:05:41,377 And they're already doing a bunch of the stuff that everyone 140 00:05:41,459 --> 00:05:42,984 else has already thought of, 141 00:05:43,067 --> 00:05:47,348 like softening the crease radius by doing a teardrop shape when it's folded. 142 00:05:47,430 --> 00:05:48,954 But the main innovation here 143 00:05:49,156 --> 00:05:53,093 is with this hinge: they literally laser-scan each individual titanium 144 00:05:53,175 --> 00:05:56,365 hinge to map the slightest variations across the surface. 145 00:05:56,848 --> 00:05:57,677 Then... 146 00:05:57,759 --> 00:05:59,980 3D-print a liquid polymer to fill in the exact... 147 00:06:00,062 --> 00:06:02,104 micro-gaps to perfectly smooth out... 148 00:06:02,187 --> 00:06:05,090 the hinge, and then harden it with ultraviolet light 149 00:06:05,172 --> 00:06:06,720 it is incredibly complicated. 150 00:06:06,802 --> 00:06:07,901 But the end result... 151 00:06:07,983 --> 00:06:11,555 is they minimize the surface-level variations across the hinge... 152 00:06:11,637 --> 00:06:14,252 from 0.2 millimeters down to 0.05... millimeters, 153 00:06:14,334 --> 00:06:17,513 which is apparently less than half a human hair thickness. 154 00:06:17,596 --> 00:06:18,425 So that, 155 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:22,546 combined with the slightly thicker layer of top glass that they're using, 156 00:06:22,629 --> 00:06:23,559 really makes a big 157 00:06:23,761 --> 00:06:25,814 visual difference and feel difference. 158 00:06:25,896 --> 00:06:29,132 A lot of these foldables also, they look great out the box, 159 00:06:29,754 --> 00:06:33,607 but the more you use it, as you know, the more you fold and unfold it, 160 00:06:33,689 --> 00:06:36,700 the deeper that crease becomes, the more you notice it. 161 00:06:36,781 --> 00:06:38,490 This process, they're saying 162 00:06:38,692 --> 00:06:39,521 is good for 163 00:06:39,735 --> 00:06:42,694 600,000 folds and still not showing any significant 164 00:06:42,896 --> 00:06:44,117 crease. which, you know, 165 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:47,055 obviously I've been folding and unfolding this a lot... 166 00:06:47,137 --> 00:06:48,336 but not that many times, 167 00:06:48,418 --> 00:06:51,115 so I'm just going to have to take their word for it. 168 00:06:51,317 --> 00:06:52,302 But yeah, now... that 169 00:06:52,504 --> 00:06:54,826 really that's the last few percent... of like, 170 00:06:54,908 --> 00:06:57,230 quality of life when you're using a foldable, 171 00:06:57,862 --> 00:07:00,504 never really... noticing or perceiving the crease... 172 00:07:00,586 --> 00:07:01,416 at all. 173 00:07:01,499 --> 00:07:03,569 And the cherry on top is, unlike Samsung's Fold, 174 00:07:03,651 --> 00:07:05,250 it actually has pen support... 175 00:07:05,331 --> 00:07:09,843 So there's this little half case you can snap on the back of this phone that holds 176 00:07:09,925 --> 00:07:13,765 the pen near the coil so it wireless charges from the phone's battery. 177 00:07:13,848 --> 00:07:16,960 And then yeah, it works on both the front cover screen... 178 00:07:17,041 --> 00:07:17,871 and... 179 00:07:17,954 --> 00:07:20,656 the interior display with more than 4,000 levels of pressure 180 00:07:20,738 --> 00:07:22,337 sensitivity and minimal lag. So 181 00:07:22,540 --> 00:07:25,539 if you're the artist type or the handwritten note type, 182 00:07:25,620 --> 00:07:28,788 this display has digitizer layer to keep that dream alive. 183 00:07:28,870 --> 00:07:32,169 And yes, it charges because it does have Bluetooth, 184 00:07:32,252 --> 00:07:33,694 so it can still be used 185 00:07:33,896 --> 00:07:35,604 as a remote camera shutter. 186 00:07:36,485 --> 00:07:38,790 So now in 2026, this Oppo Find N6... 187 00:07:38,872 --> 00:07:39,718 is complete... 188 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,310 as far as I'm concerned. 189 00:07:41,391 --> 00:07:42,502 We've gone through 190 00:07:42,985 --> 00:07:45,024 one by one each of the potential 191 00:07:45,586 --> 00:07:47,692 compromises of a folding phone... 192 00:07:47,774 --> 00:07:49,360 and engineered them away. 193 00:07:49,442 --> 00:07:52,779 So aside from the price tag, of course, this is effectively 194 00:07:53,482 --> 00:07:54,849 a regular phone that just 195 00:07:55,050 --> 00:07:56,360 happens to fold in half. 196 00:07:57,081 --> 00:07:58,680 And so yeah, peak foldable... 197 00:07:58,762 --> 00:08:00,013 we've arrived, I guess, 198 00:08:00,576 --> 00:08:04,610 which of course got me thinking about the obvious elephant in the room. 199 00:08:04,692 --> 00:08:06,062 We are saying all of this before 200 00:08:06,624 --> 00:08:09,582 Apple jumps in the ring with what we expect to be a folding iPhone. 201 00:08:09,663 --> 00:08:12,213 The rumors are saying it's probably going to be this year, 202 00:08:12,295 --> 00:08:13,125 end of this year. 203 00:08:13,208 --> 00:08:15,742 And actually that makes perfect sense because that's what Apple 204 00:08:15,824 --> 00:08:17,141 does with emerging technologies. 205 00:08:17,223 --> 00:08:18,324 That's kind of their thing. 206 00:08:18,406 --> 00:08:21,453 They'll sit on the sidelines for the first few cycles while the 207 00:08:21,654 --> 00:08:23,410 the most aggressive, daring companies 208 00:08:23,612 --> 00:08:27,031 innovate and work out all the bugs and the kinks and the compromises. 209 00:08:27,113 --> 00:08:29,522 And then once that technology is mature enough, 210 00:08:30,004 --> 00:08:33,155 that's when they jump in with all the learnings from everyone 211 00:08:33,238 --> 00:08:35,541 else and like an Apple-ified... version of it. 212 00:08:35,623 --> 00:08:38,509 So that's Vision Pro jumping into the world that already 213 00:08:38,591 --> 00:08:39,834 existed of VR headsets... 214 00:08:39,916 --> 00:08:43,915 that's HomePod jumping into the world that already existed of smart speakers. 215 00:08:43,996 --> 00:08:48,419 Heck, that's what the original iPhone did, jumping into the already existing world... 216 00:08:48,501 --> 00:08:49,331 of mobile phones. 217 00:08:49,413 --> 00:08:53,413 So now that we're at peak foldable and we've sort of engineered away the 218 00:08:53,495 --> 00:08:57,109 compromises and we've got to this point where the tech is mature, 219 00:08:57,311 --> 00:09:00,413 it's ready for Apple to jump in if they wanted to and... 220 00:09:00,495 --> 00:09:02,402 do their own... Apple-ified version. 221 00:09:02,484 --> 00:09:03,994 The question is what is the, 222 00:09:04,196 --> 00:09:06,672 what is the Apple-ified thing for a foldable? 223 00:09:06,754 --> 00:09:07,584 Because you know, 224 00:09:07,666 --> 00:09:09,834 typically when they jump in a new category, 225 00:09:09,916 --> 00:09:13,207 their cheat code is just by making theirs the version that works 226 00:09:13,288 --> 00:09:14,418 well with the iPhone... 227 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:17,896 and that automatically gets you a bunch of users from iPhone land. 228 00:09:17,979 --> 00:09:19,004 But this is an iPhone 229 00:09:19,206 --> 00:09:20,547 Fold... So what's the trick? 230 00:09:20,629 --> 00:09:23,235 Will it, like, run a special iPadOS when it's open? 231 00:09:23,317 --> 00:09:24,235 Or maybe, you know, 232 00:09:24,317 --> 00:09:28,029 every foldable has multi-window support and extra multitasking features, 233 00:09:28,111 --> 00:09:30,928 so maybe that will make its way to the iPhone Fold too. 234 00:09:31,010 --> 00:09:33,163 Maybe... Don't really know, software-wise. 235 00:09:33,245 --> 00:09:34,076 But the one 236 00:09:34,405 --> 00:09:35,235 big, 237 00:09:35,317 --> 00:09:37,539 weird thing that the rumors are actually pointing to is 238 00:09:38,341 --> 00:09:40,004 playing with aspect ratio again. 239 00:09:40,086 --> 00:09:44,340 Cause so many of these modern foldables, full-size folds have trended towards the, 240 00:09:44,422 --> 00:09:45,252 like, 241 00:09:45,333 --> 00:09:47,194 regular slab phone aspect ratio when it's closed. 242 00:09:47,397 --> 00:09:48,636 And we talked about this, 243 00:09:48,717 --> 00:09:51,384 that leaves you with the square when you open it up, 244 00:09:51,466 --> 00:09:54,081 which is bigger. But it is a little bit compromised. 245 00:09:54,163 --> 00:09:55,139 It's not as good for 246 00:09:55,341 --> 00:09:57,156 widescreen media, things like that. 247 00:09:57,238 --> 00:10:00,176 But this iPhone Fold is supposed to be more of a small, 248 00:10:00,898 --> 00:10:02,682 passport-style, so a short, squat, 249 00:10:02,764 --> 00:10:05,537 like five-and-a-half-inch display while it's closed, 250 00:10:05,619 --> 00:10:08,502 and then that opens up to an almost 8-inch widescreen, 251 00:10:08,583 --> 00:10:10,368 kind of like a portable iPad mini. 252 00:10:10,451 --> 00:10:11,984 There's a little bit of a throwback. 253 00:10:12,066 --> 00:10:14,944 We used to see more interesting shapes in folds a couple years ago 254 00:10:15,145 --> 00:10:16,454 even from earlier Oppo Find Ns. 255 00:10:16,537 --> 00:10:19,778 So this won't be the first to try it, and it certainly won't be the last. 256 00:10:19,860 --> 00:10:22,677 We'll see how much of the other stuff like the no-feel crease... 257 00:10:22,759 --> 00:10:23,899 and the super-thin build... 258 00:10:23,981 --> 00:10:25,756 silicon-carbon battery, flagship cameras, 259 00:10:25,839 --> 00:10:28,520 we'll see how much of that other stuff makes it to the iPhone 260 00:10:28,601 --> 00:10:29,833 Fold as well later this year. 261 00:10:30,395 --> 00:10:32,125 But we'll see. I'm looking forward to it. 262 00:10:32,687 --> 00:10:35,821 Also subscribe to be among the first to see that when it does come out, 263 00:10:35,903 --> 00:10:37,810 because we'll cover it here on the channel. 264 00:10:38,350 --> 00:10:39,277 Thanks for watching. 265 00:10:40,158 --> 00:10:41,577 Catch you guys in the next one. 266 00:10:42,220 --> 00:10:43,050 Peace!