The world’s thinnest foldable phone doesn’t come cheap

Oppo has launched the Find N5, the thinnest foldable phone in the world. It’s launching in markets worldwide, including across Europe and Asia, at $2,499 SGD (about $1,867 USD). That’s more expensive than either the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 or Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold in Singapore, though comparable once you adjust for storage. There won’t be any US release at all though, as sister brand OnePlus has already confirmed that it has no plans to launch a foldable phone this year.

The Find N5 is slimmer than any rival foldable, so long as you measure it when closed. At 8.93mm it’s thinner than the previous record holder, last year’s Honor Magic V3, and less than a millimeter thicker than an iPhone 16 Pro. Open the phone up and it’s just 4.21mm at its thinnest point — so thin that Oppo told me it had to customize the USB-C port to even fit — though measured this way it is fractionally thicker than Huawei’s 3.6mm trifold Mate XT, which also got a global launch this week.

The phone has IPX6, X8, and X9 ratings, meaning it’s protected against both submersion and spraying water but not dust or dirt — arguably the bigger threats to folding phones. Oppo has also made the display crease both narrower and shallower, making it harder to spot or feel while swiping.

A 5,600mAh battery is surprisingly spacious for the phone’s size, and was good enough for two days of use at a time while I was testing the phone for my review. Oppo has also managed to fit in wireless charging, one of the big omissions from the previous Find N3 (there was no N4, since it’s considered an unlucky number in China).

The phone uses a 7-core version of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, and comes in just one configuration, with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The Hasselblad-branded cameras are impressive too, with 50-megapixel main and telephoto lenses joined by a 12-megapixel ultrawide.

The Find N5 is launching in Europe and Asia, with a release date of February 28th so far only confirmed for Singapore. While we had hoped for a US launch under the OnePlus brand — the Find N3 launched Stateside as the OnePlus Open — it’s been confirmed that OnePlus is skipping this generation, and so the Find N5 is just one more phone that US buyers won’t have the option to pick up.

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