Oppo has launched its \u201czero-feel crease\u201d foldable, the Find N6, but while we knew it was unlikely to launch in the US, it\u2019s a shame to discover that the promised \u201cglobal\u201d launch is also leaving Europe out in the cold. Instead, the Find N6 will go on sale from March 20th across what the company called its \u201ckey markets\u201d in Asia, along with Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a shame, because like the Find N5<\/a> before it, the N6 looks to be one of the best foldable phones yet. The standout feature is of course its crease, which I looked at in detail last week<\/a>. Helped by a liquid 3D-printed hinge column, it\u2019s the shallowest crease I\u2019ve seen on any foldable phone \u2014 by quite some way \u2014 and is genuinely difficult to either see or feel. The crease isn\u2019t quite gone entirely, but it\u2019s close enough that it\u2019s now unlikely to bother anyone.<\/p>\n The Find N6 isn\u2019t quite the thinnest foldable yet \u2014 that\u2019s the Honor Magic V6<\/a> \u2014 but at 8.93mm and 225 it\u2019s more or less the same size and weight as Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Z Fold 7<\/a>, and Honor\u2019s phone is barely a hair\u2019s width thinner anyway. The Magic V6 also has a larger battery, though the 6,000mAh silicon-carbon capacity of the Find N6 is not to be sniffed at, and should be plenty to make this comfortably a full-day device.<\/p>\n The cameras look like the other area where the phone may excel. The triple rear camera system includes a 200-megapixel main camera and 50-megapixel ultrawide and telephoto cameras, all using Samsung sensors. The fourth lens is the same color spectrum sensor Oppo introduced on last year\u2019s Find X9 flagships<\/a>, which enjoyed excellent cameras, and though the camera bump is large, Oppo has worked hard to keep it relatively flat and flush with the phone.<\/p>\n A seven-core variant of Qualcomm\u2019s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5<\/a> powers the phone, which comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB storage. The only real area where Oppo has lagged behind is dust protection: The Find N6 is IP56, 58, and 59-rated, which means it has excellent protection from water but lags behind Google\u2019s Pixel 10 Pro Fold<\/a> and the latest Honor foldable when it comes to dust.<\/p>\n Oppo is launching the Find N6 alongside a new AI Pen stylus, which works on both inner and outer screens and charges via pogo pins in an accompanying case, which in turn charges wirelessly from the phone. There are also a few new software tricks: Multitasking is expanded with the addition of up to four freely resizable floating windows, all of which are kept active at once. Oppo has also said that it\u2019s working with Google to bring AirDrop support<\/a> to the phone, which should come in a future software update to join the existing suite of macOS and iOS integrations<\/a>, including file sharing and screen sharing.<\/p>\n In China, the Find N6 starts from \u00a59,999 (about $1,450) for a model with 12GB of RAM and 512GB storage, but the 16GB model equivalent to the global release is \u00a510,999 ($1,600). The AI Pen and its case cost an extra \u00a5499 ($75).<\/p>\n Photography by Dominic Preston \/ The Verge<\/p>\n Update, March 17th: Added pricing from China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oppo has launched its \u201czero-feel crease\u201d foldable, the Find N6, but while we knew it was unlikely to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2352,203,61,60,202,43,981,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-350759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-foldable-phones","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phones","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}