- Oppo has shared details about the Find N5, which will likely be rebranded as the OnePlus Open 2 outside of China.
- The Oppo Find N5 will be extremely thin, with barely enough room for a USB-C port
- It will also have an IPX9 water resistance rating, something very rare for phones.
The OnePlus Open was one of the best foldable phones of 2024, so the company could have released a similar successor and still probably seen it hold up well against the competition. Instead, it looks like we’ll be getting some big updates.
In several Weibo posts spotted by Android Authority, Oppo product manager Zhou Yibao has shared images and information about the Oppo Find N5 and based on its previous form, the OnePlus Open 2 is likely to simply be a rebranded version of this device.
According to this information, that is not a bad thing, since the Oppo Find N5 will be incredibly thin, and Yibao claims that “thinness is not the limit of the Find N5, but the limit of the charging port.” You can see this is the case in the images below, with just a small portion of bezel on either side of the USB-C port.
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That means this is probably the thinnest foldable phone yet, and it will be impossible to make a foldable phone that’s much thinner than this one without sacrificing the charging port, or make the half without the port much thinner, which which could make the phone feel slimmer. unbalanced.
Some of the other images also highlight how thin this phone is, with it being about the thickness of four credit cards when the phone is unfolded and much thinner than an iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Unfortunately, exact dimensions have not been provided, but the OnePlus Open 2 will almost certainly be a bit thinner than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, which is arguably its key rival, at least until the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold is launched. 7.
Impressively waterproof
And that’s not the only way the Oppo Find N5, and therefore probably the OnePlus Open 2 as well, outperforms the Galaxy Z Fold 6, as Zhou Yibao also revealed that it has IPX6, IPX8 and IPX9 water resistance ratings .
It’s the number at the end that’s relevant here, and most phones have, at best, a rating of ‘8’, meaning they can be submerged at least 1.5 meters deep in water. sweet for up to 30 minutes. Being rated ‘9’ also means that this phone is also protected against high temperature and high pressure water jets.
It’s not too surprising that this level of protection can be offered, as it was also a feature of the OnePlus 13, but is not present on most phones, including the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, which has an ‘8’ but no a ‘. 9’ rating.
However, the Galaxy Z Fold 6’s full rating is IP48, and the ‘4’ means it has protection against solid objects larger than 1mm in size. The Oppo Find N5, and probably the OnePlus Open 2 as well, has no such protection, so that’s one area where Samsung has this rumored model beat.
It will be interesting to see if the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 can match this for thinness and water resistance, but we have doubts.
As for when any of these phones might launch, we expect the Oppo Find N5 to launch in February, but probably only for China. However, the OnePlus Open 2 can be expected to launch globally soon after, and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 probably won’t arrive before July.
