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If you want to buy a smartphone that folds, you have a very simple choice. To be fair, there was not too many choices to begin with. In Malaysia at least, you could only get your hands on Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip smartphone. Not anymore though, now you can get one from OPPO.

They call it the OPPO Find N2 Flip smartphone. Yes, it shares nearly the same name as the foldable candybar that is the OPPO Find N2. It is smaller than the Find N2 though, and it folds differently.

At MYR 3,999, the Find N2 Flip not what you want to call accessible. It is also priced the same as its competition. At this time too, it is the most expensive OPPO smartphone you can get your money on.

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Flagship Power

For that money, you are paying for a MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ system on a chip (SoC). Before you dismiss the OPPO Find N2 Flip as an overpriced mid-range smartphone, we can assure you that the MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ is designed to be a powerful flagship class smartphone processor. The SoC even offers dual-SIM 5G capabilities. At the same time, the SoC allows OPPO to work with its best-in-class SUPERVOOC battery charging speeds at 44W. Alongside the powerful SoC, you get 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM for super-fast operations and smooth multitasking. You also get up to 256GB in storage, which you will want to ensure you have enough storage space for all your photos.

50MP Camera Co-Engineered with Hasselblad

You need 256GB of space because the camera fitted to the Find N2 Flip can take 50-Megapixel photos with some Hasselblad magic. There is also an 8-Megapixel shooter for ultra-wide angle photos. Out the top of the internal display is a 32-Megapixel selfie camera. Of course, the cameras all work with OPPO’s in-house built MariSilicon X image processor to enhance low-light photos and even videos.

Two Displays, One Smartphone

03 OPPO Find N2 Flip Astral Black — Source: OPPO

Before you get to the large internal display, you are met with a large external display that is more than functional enough for you to work with. The 3.26-inch acts as your sort of mirror or secondary monitor when you are taking photos or videos. Your subject can even look at how they will eventually look in the photo and give you directions if they need to. The large display also allows you to get more info from apps from bespoke widgets. You can even control some of the apps directly from the external display without unfolding the entire device. Always-on-display mode allows you to get even more information from your smartphone without even picking your device up from the table.

Flip the device open and you get a 6.8-inch AMOLED display with 21:9 aspect ratio. You get Full HD+ resolution out of it, nothing too extravagant here. You still get smooth 120Hz experience with it though. With up to 240Hz of sampling rate too, the device will feel snappy in your hands. Of course, the AMOLED panel sports 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut with vivid and realistic colour reproductions.

Big, Fast Battery

Keeping everything running an entire day and more is the biggest battery you can find in this kind of smartphones. You find a 4,300mAh battery feeding all the components for an entire at a time. The 44W SUPERVOOC charging ensures that you can get it up and running again in less than an hour when it is flat.

The New Generation Flexion Hinge – Teardrop Fold

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The bulk of the money, we feel, goes to the innovative hinge design that keeps crease on your main display at minimum. They call it the New Generation Flexion Hinge rather than Flexion Hinge 2, for some reason. Still, they say that the new hinge is much better and more robust than before. They claimed that the hinge is tested to more than 400,000 folds without failure.

The original Flexion hinge was a complex thing. The New Generation Flexion Hinge has been simplified to minimize moving parts and therefore increase reliability and durability. Less moving parts also means less things to go wrong and less wear on the components. Less components also means that the hinge is smaller than before.

The result is a compact hinge than can sit in a body tighter and slimmer than ever before. The innovative new hinge also allows the device to be folded in without a gap in between panels to better protect the display against dust and other contaminants when it is folded in. A smaller hinge module is also what allowed OPPO to fit larger battery and external display modules.

Price and Availability

The OPPO Find N2 Flip is now available for pre-order until the 10^th of March 2023. You get to chose between two attractive colours – Astral Black and Moonlit Purple. As mentioned, it will set you back MYR 3,999. If you do pre-order your smartphone, you are eligible for exclusive free gifts like an extended warranty plan, an Enco Air3 wireless headphones, and case for your smartphone all amounting up to MYR 637 in value. You even get to top up MYR 299 for a OPPO Care Screen Protection Plan if you want, a 50% discount. You can pre-order your OPPO Find N2 Flip from My OPPO Space, OPPO brand stores, telco partners, OPPO’s own Official Online Store, their official stores on Shopee and Lazada, and all their retail partners across the nation.

If you are in the market for a foldable smartphone today, you will find about two eligible devices that suits your fancy. If its compact you are looking for, you have the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4. For the larger form factor that features a larger, tablet like display, you have Samsung as well with their Galaxy Z Fold 4, and HUAWEI with their Mate Xs 2. We mentioned three devices but if practical is what you are looking for, you are probably going to end up with either the compact Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4, or the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4.

Now though you might have a proper third choice. You now can choose between a Samsung, or an OPPO. To be fair, there is no practical competitor to the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 at this point of time. The new OPPO Find N2 that they just launched is more of a Galaxy Z Fold 4 competitor instead.

The OPPO Find N2 is really as successor to the very interesting OPPO Find N that was launched very late in 2021 as well. In some sense, we want to consider the Find N2 a 2023 device. At the same time, the OPPO Find N2 packs hardware more comparable to 2022 flagship devices, hence.

Inside, you find a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 powering the Android 13 based ColorOS 13 user interface (UI). You have up to 16GB of RAM to play around with, so the device will never feel slow even if you max out your tab limit on Google Chrome or have more than 20 apps open at the same time. With the larger display, you might want to have a few apps open in multiple windows too. At the same time, if you are counting on the Find N2 to be productive, you get up to 512GB of storage to work with for all sorts of documents and even photos.

Folded, the device features an expansive and rather regular factored display that is a 120hz 5.54-inch AMOLED display with 18:9 aspect ratio. It offers Full HD+ in resolution and up to 1350 nits brightness for when you want to work with it under the sun. Unfold it and you will find a large 7.1-inch LTPO AMOLED display greeting you. It is smaller than the Galaxy Z Fold 4’s 7.4-inch display, but hey it is a little more sensible in your hands. It also offers up to 120Hz in refresh rate, HDR10+ colours, and up to 1550 nits in peak brightness which, in any way you look at it, is really bright. It is smaller and more modest compared to its Samsung competitor with only 1,792 by 1,920 pixels packed in.

Out the back, you will find a 50-Megapixel shooter. That main shooter is backed up by a 32-Megapixel telephoto shooter and a 48-Megapixel ultrawide camera. You also get the clever Hasselblad calibration, obvious with a large Hasselblad branding at the camera bump this time. What they did not brand on the device is the MariSilicon X they put into the device for image processing. Of course, the camera can also do 4K video recording, which should not be a surprise anyway. Out the front, when folded, you find a 32-Megapixel front facing camera on the cover display. Inside, you find another 32-Megapixel camera.

It packs a 4,520 mAh battery to keep everything running for the day. It is larger than its competitor’s, but not by so much that it gets a significant advantage in battery life. Still, you can charge it at 67W with OPPO’s clever SUPERVOOC technology, which is a clear advantage over Samsung’s charging implementation. There is no wireless charging though, bummer.

What separates the OPPO Find N2 and its competitors apart is something you can hardly see. They call it a Flexion Hinge technology. Its aim? To minimize the display crease that is infamous with foldable devices today. It is also designed to be lighter than before with less moving parts for added reliability.

In fact, OPPO claims that they have reduced the number of moving parts within the hinge by 38 parts. There is now about 100 moving parts within the hinge. Less moving parts also means less things might go wrong. It is supposedly more rigid and stronger in construction too thanks to exotic materials like Carbon Fibre and high-strength alloy used in its construction. All these adds up to a weight saving of 42g over the older Find N.

The hinge also allows OPPO to reduce the stress on the folding display. Less stress also means less visible crease than before. OPPO claims that the visible crease has been narrowed by 67%, which sounds like a larger improvement, but we cannot confirm anything until we see the device ourselves.

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The OPPO Find N2 is currently only available in China. Prices starts at CN¥ 8,000 (MYR 5,072*) and tops out at CN¥ 9,000 (MYR 5,705*). If the current conversion rates are anything to go by, the OPPO Find N2 is priced at a much more accessible price range than its competition too. There are no confirmations on its availability and official price range in Malaysia just yet. More on the OPPO Find N2 can be found on their website. It is in Chinese though, since the device is currently only available in China.

*Approximately based on exchange rate of CN¥ 100 = MYR 63.40 as of 19/12/2022 on xe.com

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