Okay,
so I've been saying for years that foldables are for early adopters only,
and they don't make sense for regular people
until
the only difference between a foldable and a regular phone
is the fact that one of them happens to fold in half,
and there's no other compromises.
So when this all got started seven years ago with the Galaxy Fold 1,
it was really exciting that it folded in half,
but there were obviously a ton of compromises back then to make
that happen for the first time.
From the huge bezels on that cover screen, to...
to the smaller,
subpar cameras and battery and other specs,
the extremely compromised durability, and of course the crease,
the massive crease through the middle. So every year,
foldables have gotten better and better and better and better from
a bunch of different companies...
as they slowly tackled each one of those compromises...
So foldables have gotten thinner, and they've gotten bigger batteries,
and they've gotten better hinges and smaller creases,
and that's all led to this. The Oppo Find
N6 does seem kind of random that this is now peak foldable,
but I actually think by the end of this video you'll agree with me.
So the obvious problem number one with old foldables was that they sucked to
use one-handed since they're thicker,
they have worse bezels,
and just they're generally compromised versus a normal slab phone.
But we've seen this string of thinner foldable phones,
especially in the past few years, and now you look at the Oppo Find N6
from the front,
you'd hardly know it's just a normal slab phone.
Now you do have the telltale, but asymmetrical, metal,
so rounded corners on one side, square corners on the hinge side;
that's how you'd be able to know.
But other than that,
it just looks like a normal 6.6-inch phone.
Oppo has been absolutely cooking with the materials and the build,
so when you pick it up and use it,
it genuinely feels like a regular slab phone because it's the same size as one.
Now this phone is just under 9 millimeters thin and
weighs around 230 grams. For context,
the iPhone 17 Pro Max is also just under 9 millimeters thin
and around 230 grams. So...
so this is effectively a no-compromises...
normal phone, at least dimensions-wise
before you even open the thing.
So many of the previous foldables,
I remember using them and it was like you can use the outside screen,
but you... didn't really want to;
you'd rather just open it up and get to the better screen.
But this, you could just use like normal.
It's perfectly fine to take pictures with,
to watch videos on, to text on, because the keyboard isn't too small,
it's a normal aspect ratio.
It's great.
And it also has all the flagship specs by the way: 3600 nits peak brightness,
and... 1800 nits fullscreen.
So it's very viewable everywhere outdoors.
Super responsive, 1-120Hz LTPO, high-frequency PWM dimming,
the whole thing. Now,
folding in half also always has presented a bunch of challenges
with just the physics of
fitting stuff in a smaller, thinner
form factor that has to split.
So for years these folding phones
never really had flagship cameras because there wasn't enough room.
And also the batteries would always be smaller because they had to
split it in half around a hinge,
which is tough 'cause you're trying to power a bigger display.
But it's 2026.
So now of course the tech has evolved to the point where we
have silicon-carbon batteries.
And this ultra-thin phone split in half
still has a total of a 6,000 mAh battery!
which is more than a lot of slab phones already,
plus 80-watt charging and 50-watt wireless charging.
And then as far as cameras: so the physical sensor size can never
quite be the same as a slab phone,
because again, it's split in half.
So there's just not as much room in the Z-axis dimension.
But there has been development of some big sen...
with shallow Z-axis thickness specifically to fit in thinner phones.
So this phone has the same ISOCELL HP5 sensor that's in the S25 Edge
200 megapixels, 1/1.56 inches, optically stabilized.
So there is that,
plus a 50-megapixel ultrawide and a 50-megapixel 3x telephoto.
And then, I don't know if you remember,
but folding phones used to have significantly lesser chips too.
Less room inside, less...
less room for cooling.
This phone has a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 inside,
but a binned version with one less core.
So for all intents and purposes,
I think we can say it's a flagship chip and maximizing what you
can do in that thin of a space. Plus,
there's a new dedicated S1 chip for better network performance...
So now, despite being ultra-thin and
chopped in half, this thing has
flagship displays, flagship chips, flagship specs, high-end cameras.
It's also IP59 water- and dust-resistance rated,
which used to be nuts for foldables, but now you can just...
spill water on this thing and it'll be fine.
But the pièce de résistance
for this
N6 is, without question,
this center display.
For years...
for folding phones, we've gotten used to them, you know,
having an amazing folding screen, but also having a small crease...
in the middle. And the crease, you know,
it's just one of those things where on most phones,
most of the time, it doesn't bother you.
Trust me, as someone who's used these phones,
I've said before: it's like bezels. Most of the time,
you're just looking at the content or reading
or typing, so you're not really seeing it.
But every once in a while, it catches the light the right way,
or you run your finger over it... and it just hits.
You're reminded of it, and so you can still notice it sometimes.
but!... not with this phone.
So the N6 has this new thing they developed called the No-Feel Crease.
And
I'd seen the marketing, I'd heard, I'd watched some videos about it,
but they're mostly sponsored, so I was a bit skeptical...
Okay. But I got it in my hands,
and this thing is actually super impressive!
You open it up, it's the classic big square, 8.1 inches,
corner-to-corner,
same fullscreen brightness, same 1-120Hz LTPO, same PWM dimming.
But you might notice there's basically no perceptible crease here.
I mean, there's...
there's a little bit of crease if you're really looking for it.
But compared to other foldables we've seen and that I've used,
this is basically no crease.
And the extra bit of engineering that goes into solving...
this last problem
is actually... very intricate.
And they're already doing a bunch of the stuff that everyone
else has already thought of,
like softening the crease radius by doing a teardrop shape when it's folded.
But the main innovation here
is with this hinge: they literally laser-scan each individual titanium
hinge to map the slightest variations across the surface.
Then...
3D-print a liquid polymer to fill in the exact...
micro-gaps to perfectly smooth out...
the hinge, and then harden it with ultraviolet light
it is incredibly complicated.
But the end result...
is they minimize the surface-level variations across the hinge...
from 0.2 millimeters down to 0.05... millimeters,
which is apparently less than half a human hair thickness.
So that,
combined with the slightly thicker layer of top glass that they're using,
really makes a big
visual difference and feel difference.
A lot of these foldables also, they look great out the box,
but the more you use it, as you know, the more you fold and unfold it,
the deeper that crease becomes, the more you notice it.
This process, they're saying
is good for
600,000 folds and still not showing any significant
crease. which, you know,
obviously I've been folding and unfolding this a lot...
but not that many times,
so I'm just going to have to take their word for it.
But yeah, now... that
really that's the last few percent... of like,
quality of life when you're using a foldable,
never really... noticing or perceiving the crease...
at all.
And the cherry on top is, unlike Samsung's Fold,
it actually has pen support...
So there's this little half case you can snap on the back of this phone that holds
the pen near the coil so it wireless charges from the phone's battery.
And then yeah, it works on both the front cover screen...
and...
the interior display with more than 4,000 levels of pressure
sensitivity and minimal lag. So
if you're the artist type or the handwritten note type,
this display has digitizer layer to keep that dream alive.
And yes, it charges because it does have Bluetooth,
so it can still be used
as a remote camera shutter.
So now in 2026, this Oppo Find N6...
is complete...
as far as I'm concerned.
We've gone through
one by one each of the potential
compromises of a folding phone...
and engineered them away.
So aside from the price tag, of course, this is effectively
a regular phone that just
happens to fold in half.
And so yeah, peak foldable...
we've arrived, I guess,
which of course got me thinking about the obvious elephant in the room.
We are saying all of this before
Apple jumps in the ring with what we expect to be a folding iPhone.
The rumors are saying it's probably going to be this year,
end of this year.
And actually that makes perfect sense because that's what Apple
does with emerging technologies.
That's kind of their thing.
They'll sit on the sidelines for the first few cycles while the
the most aggressive, daring companies
innovate and work out all the bugs and the kinks and the compromises.
And then once that technology is mature enough,
that's when they jump in with all the learnings from everyone
else and like an Apple-ified... version of it.
So that's Vision Pro jumping into the world that already
existed of VR headsets...
that's HomePod jumping into the world that already existed of smart speakers.
Heck, that's what the original iPhone did, jumping into the already existing world...
of mobile phones.
So now that we're at peak foldable and we've sort of engineered away the
compromises and we've got to this point where the tech is mature,
it's ready for Apple to jump in if they wanted to and...
do their own... Apple-ified version.
The question is what is the,
what is the Apple-ified thing for a foldable?
Because you know,
typically when they jump in a new category,
their cheat code is just by making theirs the version that works
well with the iPhone...
and that automatically gets you a bunch of users from iPhone land.
But this is an iPhone
Fold... So what's the trick?
Will it, like, run a special iPadOS when it's open?
Or maybe, you know,
every foldable has multi-window support and extra multitasking features,
so maybe that will make its way to the iPhone Fold too.
Maybe... Don't really know, software-wise.
But the one
big,
weird thing that the rumors are actually pointing to is
playing with aspect ratio again.
Cause so many of these modern foldables, full-size folds have trended towards the,
like,
regular slab phone aspect ratio when it's closed.
And we talked about this,
that leaves you with the square when you open it up,
which is bigger. But it is a little bit compromised.
It's not as good for
widescreen media, things like that.
But this iPhone Fold is supposed to be more of a small,
passport-style, so a short, squat,
like five-and-a-half-inch display while it's closed,
and then that opens up to an almost 8-inch widescreen,
kind of like a portable iPad mini.
There's a little bit of a throwback.
We used to see more interesting shapes in folds a couple years ago
even from earlier Oppo Find Ns.
So this won't be the first to try it, and it certainly won't be the last.
We'll see how much of the other stuff like the no-feel crease...
and the super-thin build...
silicon-carbon battery, flagship cameras,
we'll see how much of that other stuff makes it to the iPhone
Fold as well later this year.
But we'll see. I'm looking forward to it.
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because we'll cover it here on the channel.
Thanks for watching.
Catch you guys in the next one.
Peace!