WEBVTT 00:00:02.613 --> 00:00:03.443 Okay, 00:00:03.524 --> 00:00:06.302 so I've been saying for years that foldables are for early adopters only, 00:00:06.384 --> 00:00:08.407 and they don't make sense for regular people 00:00:08.609 --> 00:00:09.439 until 00:00:09.648 --> 00:00:12.341 the only difference between a foldable and a regular phone 00:00:12.544 --> 00:00:14.996 is the fact that one of them happens to fold in half, 00:00:15.079 --> 00:00:16.576 and there's no other compromises. 00:00:16.658 --> 00:00:20.137 So when this all got started seven years ago with the Galaxy Fold 1, 00:00:20.338 --> 00:00:22.666 it was really exciting that it folded in half, 00:00:22.748 --> 00:00:25.965 but there were obviously a ton of compromises back then to make 00:00:26.047 --> 00:00:27.589 that happen for the first time. 00:00:27.672 --> 00:00:30.103 From the huge bezels on that cover screen, to... 00:00:30.185 --> 00:00:31.015 to the smaller, 00:00:31.097 --> 00:00:33.140 subpar cameras and battery and other specs, 00:00:33.222 --> 00:00:36.441 the extremely compromised durability, and of course the crease, 00:00:36.523 --> 00:00:39.142 the massive crease through the middle. So every year, 00:00:39.223 --> 00:00:42.494 foldables have gotten better and better and better and better from 00:00:42.576 --> 00:00:44.171 a bunch of different companies... 00:00:44.253 --> 00:00:46.966 as they slowly tackled each one of those compromises... 00:00:47.048 --> 00:00:50.523 So foldables have gotten thinner, and they've gotten bigger batteries, 00:00:50.604 --> 00:00:53.214 and they've gotten better hinges and smaller creases, 00:00:53.296 --> 00:00:55.247 and that's all led to this. The Oppo Find 00:00:55.810 --> 00:00:58.725 N6 does seem kind of random that this is now peak foldable, 00:00:58.807 --> 00:01:02.129 but I actually think by the end of this video you'll agree with me. 00:01:02.210 --> 00:01:06.030 So the obvious problem number one with old foldables was that they sucked to 00:01:06.111 --> 00:01:07.928 use one-handed since they're thicker, 00:01:08.010 --> 00:01:09.109 they have worse bezels, 00:01:09.191 --> 00:01:12.497 and just they're generally compromised versus a normal slab phone. 00:01:12.579 --> 00:01:14.912 But we've seen this string of thinner foldable phones, 00:01:14.995 --> 00:01:18.044 especially in the past few years, and now you look at the Oppo Find N6 00:01:18.245 --> 00:01:19.075 from the front, 00:01:19.158 --> 00:01:20.981 you'd hardly know it's just a normal slab phone. 00:01:21.063 --> 00:01:23.396 Now you do have the telltale, but asymmetrical, metal, 00:01:23.478 --> 00:01:26.304 so rounded corners on one side, square corners on the hinge side; 00:01:26.385 --> 00:01:27.780 that's how you'd be able to know. 00:01:27.861 --> 00:01:28.838 But other than that, 00:01:28.921 --> 00:01:31.115 it just looks like a normal 6.6-inch phone. 00:01:31.197 --> 00:01:34.608 Oppo has been absolutely cooking with the materials and the build, 00:01:34.689 --> 00:01:36.408 so when you pick it up and use it, 00:01:36.489 --> 00:01:40.588 it genuinely feels like a regular slab phone because it's the same size as one. 00:01:40.671 --> 00:01:43.289 Now this phone is just under 9 millimeters thin and 00:01:43.370 --> 00:01:45.186 weighs around 230 grams. For context, 00:01:45.269 --> 00:01:48.277 the iPhone 17 Pro Max is also just under 9 millimeters thin 00:01:48.358 --> 00:01:49.690 and around 230 grams. So... 00:01:49.772 --> 00:01:51.890 so this is effectively a no-compromises... 00:01:51.972 --> 00:01:53.881 normal phone, at least dimensions-wise 00:01:54.082 --> 00:01:55.623 before you even open the thing. 00:01:55.706 --> 00:01:57.405 So many of the previous foldables, 00:01:57.486 --> 00:02:01.018 I remember using them and it was like you can use the outside screen, 00:02:01.100 --> 00:02:02.694 but you... didn't really want to; 00:02:02.775 --> 00:02:05.731 you'd rather just open it up and get to the better screen. 00:02:05.813 --> 00:02:07.886 But this, you could just use like normal. 00:02:07.968 --> 00:02:10.086 It's perfectly fine to take pictures with, 00:02:10.288 --> 00:02:13.820 to watch videos on, to text on, because the keyboard isn't too small, 00:02:14.022 --> 00:02:15.354 it's a normal aspect ratio. 00:02:15.556 --> 00:02:16.387 It's great. 00:02:16.468 --> 00:02:20.085 And it also has all the flagship specs by the way: 3600 nits peak brightness, 00:02:20.167 --> 00:02:21.500 and... 1800 nits fullscreen. 00:02:21.581 --> 00:02:24.151 So it's very viewable everywhere outdoors. 00:02:24.354 --> 00:02:27.998 Super responsive, 1-120Hz LTPO, high-frequency PWM dimming, 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:29.317 the whole thing. Now, 00:02:29.399 --> 00:02:32.433 folding in half also always has presented a bunch of challenges 00:02:32.515 --> 00:02:33.621 with just the physics of 00:02:33.824 --> 00:02:35.474 fitting stuff in a smaller, thinner 00:02:35.675 --> 00:02:37.077 form factor that has to split. 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:39.190 So for years these folding phones 00:02:39.393 --> 00:02:42.626 never really had flagship cameras because there wasn't enough room. 00:02:42.707 --> 00:02:45.891 And also the batteries would always be smaller because they had to 00:02:45.973 --> 00:02:47.474 split it in half around a hinge, 00:02:47.676 --> 00:02:50.662 which is tough 'cause you're trying to power a bigger display. 00:02:50.745 --> 00:02:51.575 But it's 2026. 00:02:51.657 --> 00:02:54.792 So now of course the tech has evolved to the point where we 00:02:54.873 --> 00:02:56.489 have silicon-carbon batteries. 00:02:56.570 --> 00:02:58.694 And this ultra-thin phone split in half 00:02:58.896 --> 00:03:01.134 still has a total of a 6,000 mAh battery! 00:03:01.217 --> 00:03:03.850 which is more than a lot of slab phones already, 00:03:04.051 --> 00:03:06.911 plus 80-watt charging and 50-watt wireless charging. 00:03:06.992 --> 00:03:10.587 And then as far as cameras: so the physical sensor size can never 00:03:10.669 --> 00:03:12.510 quite be the same as a slab phone, 00:03:12.592 --> 00:03:14.435 because again, it's split in half. 00:03:14.516 --> 00:03:17.739 So there's just not as much room in the Z-axis dimension. 00:03:17.820 --> 00:03:21.000 But there has been development of some big sen... 00:03:21.081 --> 00:03:25.525 with shallow Z-axis thickness specifically to fit in thinner phones. 00:03:25.728 --> 00:03:30.171 So this phone has the same ISOCELL HP5 sensor that's in the S25 Edge 00:03:30.373 --> 00:03:33.752 200 megapixels, 1/1.56 inches, optically stabilized. 00:03:33.835 --> 00:03:34.884 So there is that, 00:03:34.966 --> 00:03:39.010 plus a 50-megapixel ultrawide and a 50-megapixel 3x telephoto. 00:03:39.092 --> 00:03:41.001 And then, I don't know if you remember, 00:03:41.084 --> 00:03:44.218 but folding phones used to have significantly lesser chips too. 00:03:44.860 --> 00:03:46.055 Less room inside, less... 00:03:46.138 --> 00:03:47.218 less room for cooling. 00:03:47.300 --> 00:03:49.799 This phone has a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 inside, 00:03:49.882 --> 00:03:51.906 but a binned version with one less core. 00:03:51.987 --> 00:03:53.592 So for all intents and purposes, 00:03:53.674 --> 00:03:56.909 I think we can say it's a flagship chip and maximizing what you 00:03:56.991 --> 00:03:58.805 can do in that thin of a space. Plus, 00:03:58.888 --> 00:04:02.229 there's a new dedicated S1 chip for better network performance... 00:04:02.311 --> 00:04:04.125 So now, despite being ultra-thin and 00:04:04.326 --> 00:04:05.877 chopped in half, this thing has 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:09.659 flagship displays, flagship chips, flagship specs, high-end cameras. 00:04:09.741 --> 00:04:12.256 It's also IP59 water- and dust-resistance rated, 00:04:12.337 --> 00:04:15.501 which used to be nuts for foldables, but now you can just... 00:04:15.584 --> 00:04:17.882 spill water on this thing and it'll be fine. 00:04:17.964 --> 00:04:19.459 But the pièce de résistance 00:04:19.661 --> 00:04:20.490 for this 00:04:20.704 --> 00:04:21.926 N6 is, without question, 00:04:22.649 --> 00:04:23.733 this center display. 00:04:24.216 --> 00:04:25.045 For years... 00:04:25.127 --> 00:04:28.103 for folding phones, we've gotten used to them, you know, 00:04:28.185 --> 00:04:32.014 having an amazing folding screen, but also having a small crease... 00:04:32.096 --> 00:04:33.973 in the middle. And the crease, you know, 00:04:34.055 --> 00:04:36.303 it's just one of those things where on most phones, 00:04:36.505 --> 00:04:38.251 most of the time, it doesn't bother you. 00:04:38.334 --> 00:04:40.307 Trust me, as someone who's used these phones, 00:04:40.389 --> 00:04:42.683 I've said before: it's like bezels. Most of the time, 00:04:42.766 --> 00:04:44.740 you're just looking at the content or reading 00:04:44.942 --> 00:04:46.778 or typing, so you're not really seeing it. 00:04:46.860 --> 00:04:49.610 But every once in a while, it catches the light the right way, 00:04:49.692 --> 00:04:51.895 or you run your finger over it... and it just hits. 00:04:51.978 --> 00:04:54.821 You're reminded of it, and so you can still notice it sometimes. 00:04:54.903 --> 00:04:56.093 but!... not with this phone. 00:04:56.295 --> 00:04:59.514 So the N6 has this new thing they developed called the No-Feel Crease. 00:05:00.317 --> 00:05:01.146 And 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:03.701 I'd seen the marketing, I'd heard, I'd watched some videos about it, 00:05:03.783 --> 00:05:06.389 but they're mostly sponsored, so I was a bit skeptical... 00:05:06.471 --> 00:05:07.803 Okay. But I got it in my hands, 00:05:07.886 --> 00:05:09.920 and this thing is actually super impressive! 00:05:10.050 --> 00:05:13.085 You open it up, it's the classic big square, 8.1 inches, 00:05:13.166 --> 00:05:14.017 corner-to-corner, 00:05:14.220 --> 00:05:17.653 same fullscreen brightness, same 1-120Hz LTPO, same PWM dimming. 00:05:17.735 --> 00:05:21.278 But you might notice there's basically no perceptible crease here. 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:22.266 I mean, there's... 00:05:22.348 --> 00:05:25.725 there's a little bit of crease if you're really looking for it. 00:05:25.807 --> 00:05:29.130 But compared to other foldables we've seen and that I've used, 00:05:29.692 --> 00:05:31.222 this is basically no crease. 00:05:31.305 --> 00:05:34.552 And the extra bit of engineering that goes into solving... 00:05:34.634 --> 00:05:35.528 this last problem 00:05:36.350 --> 00:05:37.932 is actually... very intricate. 00:05:38.014 --> 00:05:41.377 And they're already doing a bunch of the stuff that everyone 00:05:41.459 --> 00:05:42.984 else has already thought of, 00:05:43.067 --> 00:05:47.348 like softening the crease radius by doing a teardrop shape when it's folded. 00:05:47.430 --> 00:05:48.954 But the main innovation here 00:05:49.156 --> 00:05:53.093 is with this hinge: they literally laser-scan each individual titanium 00:05:53.175 --> 00:05:56.365 hinge to map the slightest variations across the surface. 00:05:56.848 --> 00:05:57.677 Then... 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:59.980 3D-print a liquid polymer to fill in the exact... 00:06:00.062 --> 00:06:02.104 micro-gaps to perfectly smooth out... 00:06:02.187 --> 00:06:05.090 the hinge, and then harden it with ultraviolet light 00:06:05.172 --> 00:06:06.720 it is incredibly complicated. 00:06:06.802 --> 00:06:07.901 But the end result... 00:06:07.983 --> 00:06:11.555 is they minimize the surface-level variations across the hinge... 00:06:11.637 --> 00:06:14.252 from 0.2 millimeters down to 0.05... millimeters, 00:06:14.334 --> 00:06:17.513 which is apparently less than half a human hair thickness. 00:06:17.596 --> 00:06:18.425 So that, 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:22.546 combined with the slightly thicker layer of top glass that they're using, 00:06:22.629 --> 00:06:23.559 really makes a big 00:06:23.761 --> 00:06:25.814 visual difference and feel difference. 00:06:25.896 --> 00:06:29.132 A lot of these foldables also, they look great out the box, 00:06:29.754 --> 00:06:33.607 but the more you use it, as you know, the more you fold and unfold it, 00:06:33.689 --> 00:06:36.700 the deeper that crease becomes, the more you notice it. 00:06:36.781 --> 00:06:38.490 This process, they're saying 00:06:38.692 --> 00:06:39.521 is good for 00:06:39.735 --> 00:06:42.694 600,000 folds and still not showing any significant 00:06:42.896 --> 00:06:44.117 crease. which, you know, 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:47.055 obviously I've been folding and unfolding this a lot... 00:06:47.137 --> 00:06:48.336 but not that many times, 00:06:48.418 --> 00:06:51.115 so I'm just going to have to take their word for it. 00:06:51.317 --> 00:06:52.302 But yeah, now... that 00:06:52.504 --> 00:06:54.826 really that's the last few percent... of like, 00:06:54.908 --> 00:06:57.230 quality of life when you're using a foldable, 00:06:57.862 --> 00:07:00.504 never really... noticing or perceiving the crease... 00:07:00.586 --> 00:07:01.416 at all. 00:07:01.499 --> 00:07:03.569 And the cherry on top is, unlike Samsung's Fold, 00:07:03.651 --> 00:07:05.250 it actually has pen support... 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 00:07:09.925 --> 00:07:13.765 the pen near the coil so it wireless charges from the phone's battery. 00:07:13.848 --> 00:07:16.960 And then yeah, it works on both the front cover screen... 00:07:17.041 --> 00:07:17.871 and... 00:07:17.954 --> 00:07:20.656 the interior display with more than 4,000 levels of pressure 00:07:20.738 --> 00:07:22.337 sensitivity and minimal lag. So 00:07:22.540 --> 00:07:25.539 if you're the artist type or the handwritten note type, 00:07:25.620 --> 00:07:28.788 this display has digitizer layer to keep that dream alive. 00:07:28.870 --> 00:07:32.169 And yes, it charges because it does have Bluetooth, 00:07:32.252 --> 00:07:33.694 so it can still be used 00:07:33.896 --> 00:07:35.604 as a remote camera shutter. 00:07:36.485 --> 00:07:38.790 So now in 2026, this Oppo Find N6... 00:07:38.872 --> 00:07:39.718 is complete... 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:41.310 as far as I'm concerned. 00:07:41.391 --> 00:07:42.502 We've gone through 00:07:42.985 --> 00:07:45.024 one by one each of the potential 00:07:45.586 --> 00:07:47.692 compromises of a folding phone... 00:07:47.774 --> 00:07:49.360 and engineered them away. 00:07:49.442 --> 00:07:52.779 So aside from the price tag, of course, this is effectively 00:07:53.482 --> 00:07:54.849 a regular phone that just 00:07:55.050 --> 00:07:56.360 happens to fold in half. 00:07:57.081 --> 00:07:58.680 And so yeah, peak foldable... 00:07:58.762 --> 00:08:00.013 we've arrived, I guess, 00:08:00.576 --> 00:08:04.610 which of course got me thinking about the obvious elephant in the room. 00:08:04.692 --> 00:08:06.062 We are saying all of this before 00:08:06.624 --> 00:08:09.582 Apple jumps in the ring with what we expect to be a folding iPhone. 00:08:09.663 --> 00:08:12.213 The rumors are saying it's probably going to be this year, 00:08:12.295 --> 00:08:13.125 end of this year. 00:08:13.208 --> 00:08:15.742 And actually that makes perfect sense because that's what Apple 00:08:15.824 --> 00:08:17.141 does with emerging technologies. 00:08:17.223 --> 00:08:18.324 That's kind of their thing. 00:08:18.406 --> 00:08:21.453 They'll sit on the sidelines for the first few cycles while the 00:08:21.654 --> 00:08:23.410 the most aggressive, daring companies 00:08:23.612 --> 00:08:27.031 innovate and work out all the bugs and the kinks and the compromises. 00:08:27.113 --> 00:08:29.522 And then once that technology is mature enough, 00:08:30.004 --> 00:08:33.155 that's when they jump in with all the learnings from everyone 00:08:33.238 --> 00:08:35.541 else and like an Apple-ified... version of it. 00:08:35.623 --> 00:08:38.509 So that's Vision Pro jumping into the world that already 00:08:38.591 --> 00:08:39.834 existed of VR headsets... 00:08:39.916 --> 00:08:43.915 that's HomePod jumping into the world that already existed of smart speakers. 00:08:43.996 --> 00:08:48.419 Heck, that's what the original iPhone did, jumping into the already existing world... 00:08:48.501 --> 00:08:49.331 of mobile phones. 00:08:49.413 --> 00:08:53.413 So now that we're at peak foldable and we've sort of engineered away the 00:08:53.495 --> 00:08:57.109 compromises and we've got to this point where the tech is mature, 00:08:57.311 --> 00:09:00.413 it's ready for Apple to jump in if they wanted to and... 00:09:00.495 --> 00:09:02.402 do their own... Apple-ified version. 00:09:02.484 --> 00:09:03.994 The question is what is the, 00:09:04.196 --> 00:09:06.672 what is the Apple-ified thing for a foldable? 00:09:06.754 --> 00:09:07.584 Because you know, 00:09:07.666 --> 00:09:09.834 typically when they jump in a new category, 00:09:09.916 --> 00:09:13.207 their cheat code is just by making theirs the version that works 00:09:13.288 --> 00:09:14.418 well with the iPhone... 00:09:14.500 --> 00:09:17.896 and that automatically gets you a bunch of users from iPhone land. 00:09:17.979 --> 00:09:19.004 But this is an iPhone 00:09:19.206 --> 00:09:20.547 Fold... So what's the trick? 00:09:20.629 --> 00:09:23.235 Will it, like, run a special iPadOS when it's open? 00:09:23.317 --> 00:09:24.235 Or maybe, you know, 00:09:24.317 --> 00:09:28.029 every foldable has multi-window support and extra multitasking features, 00:09:28.111 --> 00:09:30.928 so maybe that will make its way to the iPhone Fold too. 00:09:31.010 --> 00:09:33.163 Maybe... Don't really know, software-wise. 00:09:33.245 --> 00:09:34.076 But the one 00:09:34.405 --> 00:09:35.235 big, 00:09:35.317 --> 00:09:37.539 weird thing that the rumors are actually pointing to is 00:09:38.341 --> 00:09:40.004 playing with aspect ratio again. 00:09:40.086 --> 00:09:44.340 Cause so many of these modern foldables, full-size folds have trended towards the, 00:09:44.422 --> 00:09:45.252 like, 00:09:45.333 --> 00:09:47.194 regular slab phone aspect ratio when it's closed. 00:09:47.397 --> 00:09:48.636 And we talked about this, 00:09:48.717 --> 00:09:51.384 that leaves you with the square when you open it up, 00:09:51.466 --> 00:09:54.081 which is bigger. But it is a little bit compromised. 00:09:54.163 --> 00:09:55.139 It's not as good for 00:09:55.341 --> 00:09:57.156 widescreen media, things like that. 00:09:57.238 --> 00:10:00.176 But this iPhone Fold is supposed to be more of a small, 00:10:00.898 --> 00:10:02.682 passport-style, so a short, squat, 00:10:02.764 --> 00:10:05.537 like five-and-a-half-inch display while it's closed, 00:10:05.619 --> 00:10:08.502 and then that opens up to an almost 8-inch widescreen, 00:10:08.583 --> 00:10:10.368 kind of like a portable iPad mini. 00:10:10.451 --> 00:10:11.984 There's a little bit of a throwback. 00:10:12.066 --> 00:10:14.944 We used to see more interesting shapes in folds a couple years ago 00:10:15.145 --> 00:10:16.454 even from earlier Oppo Find Ns. 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. 00:10:19.860 --> 00:10:22.677 We'll see how much of the other stuff like the no-feel crease... 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:23.899 and the super-thin build... 00:10:23.981 --> 00:10:25.756 silicon-carbon battery, flagship cameras, 00:10:25.839 --> 00:10:28.520 we'll see how much of that other stuff makes it to the iPhone 00:10:28.601 --> 00:10:29.833 Fold as well later this year. 00:10:30.395 --> 00:10:32.125 But we'll see. I'm looking forward to it. 00:10:32.687 --> 00:10:35.821 Also subscribe to be among the first to see that when it does come out, 00:10:35.903 --> 00:10:37.810 because we'll cover it here on the channel. 00:10:38.350 --> 00:10:39.277 Thanks for watching. 00:10:40.158 --> 00:10:41.577 Catch you guys in the next one. 00:10:42.220 --> 00:10:43.050 Peace!