Oppo Releases Date For ‘Find N’ Its First Foldable Smartphone

Mobile communications company, Oppo has announced that its first foldable smartphone, the "Oppo Find N" will be launched next week, December 15 on the second day of Oppo’s annual Inno Day.

Chief product officer (and OnePlus CEO) Pete Lau disclosed this in a blog post on Thursday.

The post revealed that the new foldable smartphone is a “result of four years of intense R&D and 6 generations of prototypes.”

A teaser trailer was also released on Twitter that shows that it has a similar form factor to Samsung’s Z Fold devices, integrating a large internal folding screen with a smaller outer screen that can be used as a traditional smartphone.

Lau stated that “For Oppo, it is better to launch a product at a later date when it is ready to offer a great user experience instead of simply rushing to keep up with trends.”

In February 2019 the company showed off one of its foldable prototypes, although this version had a single large display that wrapped around the outside of the device, as opposed to the Find N’s internal folding screen.

Lau said that the aim was to make a device with a beautiful design that feels good in the hand, while also being useful and easy to use. “For a foldable smartphone, both the closed-screen and open-screen experience should be equally simple to use,” Lau writes.

“Then on top of that, we should create a groundbreaking efficient experience that a traditional smartphone cannot provide.”