Oppo's Find N3 foldable features large displays and robust construction.


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With their shorter 9:8.4 "golden" aspect ratio, Oppo's first two horizontally folding phones drew our attention. However, with the recently released Find N3, the firm opted for a more traditional design, which is supported by some new software tricks to improve the multitasking experience. Not to mention a significantly better folding durability, an upgraded set of rear Hasselblad-branded cameras, and the alert slider inherited from OnePlus — as we've already seen on the recent Find N3 Flip.



With a 7.8-inch diagonal and a 2,240 x 2,268 resolution, the new foldable AMOLED display on the Oppo Find N3 has a pixel density of 426 ppi. It's reasonable to say this time that the crease is "virtually crease-free" because it's even less noticeable than before. The new self-healing coating, which may reportedly smooth out blemishes to keep the panel in perfect condition for a little while longer, is the most intriguing feature here.


The Find N3's cover display now has a more recognizable and possibly more useful 20:9 aspect ratio because to the increased body height, while it is still shorter than, say, the Xiaomi Mix Fold 3. Here, we have a flat 6.3-inch 2,484 x 1,116 AMOLED display (431 ppi) that supports Dolby Vision, HDR10+, up to 1,400 nits in High Brightness Mode, 1,440Hz PWM dimming for less eye fatigue, 1-120Hz refresh rate, and other technologies.

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Oppo's third-generation Flexion hinge, made of zirconium-based liquid metal for compactness and the company's own aircraft-grade steel for strength, is used in the construction of the Find N3. The device is "36% more resistant to warping than previous-generation foldables" because to the flexible screen's structural support plates made of carbon fiber. And to make matters even better, Oppo managed to convince TÜV Rheinland to certify the Find N3's durability to 1,000,000 folds, which is more than twice as much as the Find N2's "mere" 400,000 folds, let alone the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5's 200,000 folds. For both the tests conducted at -20oC (-4°F) and 50oC (122°F), the fold counts remain at 100,000. Oppo implemented a weather-sealing procedure on the Find N3 to make it splash-proof, despite the lack of an Ingress Protection Rating in this case.


Photography is also a significant upgrade here. Find N3 is the first smartphone to pack Sony's 48-megapixel (4:3), 1/1.43-inch LYTIA-T808 sensor (it's actually 52 megapixels, 1/1.35 inches in full — 20-percent larger than the main rival's). This is apparently the first sensor to feature a two-layer transistor pixel structure, which is a cunning trick to let each pixel receive more light, thus more image detail. Sony goes as far as claiming that this chip "rivals the high-quality 1-inch type sensor." Additionally, this f/1.7, 24mm-equivalent main camera comes with optical image stabilization.


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There's also a 64-megapixel, f/2.6 periscope telephoto camera with an unnamed 1/2-inch sensor — one that's apparently three times larger than what you'd get on a main competitor's foldable. With this 70mm-equivalent lens, you get 3x optical zoom and 6x "lossless" zoom (by cropping), both of which are assisted by optical stabilization via a floating prism structure. You can use the same camera in Hasselblad Portrait mode.

Last but not least, the 48-megapixel, 14mm equivalent ultra-wide camera packs a Sony IMX5811/2-inch sensor, which Oppo claims to be 130-percent larger than key rival’s. It comes with an f/2.2 lens, a 114-degree field of view and macro shot support down to 4cm.

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To complement the photography hardware upgrade, the Find N3 packs a new Oppo Computational Photography (OCP) feature, which captures the original brightness information for fine-tuning each HDR shot "pixel by pixel." The result is supposedly "a more natural image with rich highlights and shadows." This sounds somewhat like what the now-retired MariSilicon X imaging neural processor would have handled in the past, but Oppo has yet to dive into the technical details on OCP. On a related note, the ProXDR display mode in the gallery app leverages OCP details to optimize the screen’s peak brightness, in order to make the photos pop; but you can also long-press the ProXDR button to see the photos as-is.