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Oppo joins the foldable membership with the lengthy rumored Discover N

It is clear that foldable phones will stay here. The club’s newest member is Oppo with the Find N standing next to its Find X flagships.

Yesterday, Oppo announced AirGlass, essentially a “smart monocle” modeled on Google Glass.

According to Oppo, it took four years to develop the Find N, which has a curved design on the outside and uses a flexible “water drop” hinge to expand the fold angle when opened to reduce the creases in the display between the two halves. The hinge is also designed to minimize the gap between the 12-layer displays when the device is collapsed.

There is a 5.49-inch outdoor and 7.1-inch indoor landscape format with an aspect ratio of 8.4: 9 and a variable refresh rate of 1-120 Hz, depending on the content displayed. The inner display contains a 0.03 mm thin layer of ultra-thin flexion glass. Oppo says it can be folded and unfolded 200,000 times during its lifespan.

The phone is initially available in China for 7699 yen for the 8GB storage and 256GB storage models (just over £ 900) so it should be cheap if and when it gets to the UK and Europe. A 12GB + 512GB version is also available.

The Find X uses Qualcomm’s high-end platform (albeit not the latest generation) Snapdragon 888 and has a 4,500 mAh battery. Oppo says this gives you all-day battery life, though with displays like this, the proof is in the pudding. However, with Oppo’s 33W SUPERVOOC flash charging technology, it can be charged to 100% in 70 minutes.

The Find N is available in black, white or purple (the back is made of Gorilla Glass Victus) and has a triple camera setup with a 50 megapixel Sony IMX 766 main sensor, 16 megapixel ultra wide angle lens and 13 megapixel telephoto lens plus a selfie camera for both displays in case you are making video calls. There is also a fingerprint sensor in the power button on the side.

Oppo adds that the cam and spring structure in the flexion hinge means you can set the device up anywhere between 50 and 120 degrees when unfolded to view or record videos.

The company adds that it has introduced new side-by-side multitasking features in ColorOS – if you’re using a compatible app, you can swipe down with two fingers on the center of the device to split the screen in half split or a full screen window into a. transform a floating window by squeezing it with four fingers. The camera view allows you to see the latest shots on one screen while seeing what your camera can do on the other.

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