OPPO Find N2 Review: Lightweight Foldable Beast

At the end of last year, OPPO launched its first folding flagship mobile phone, Find N. For the first time, it used a 5.49-inch golden-size folding screen. It is easy to hold with one hand, breaking through our previous expectations that the folding screen is large and thick. Cognition.

One year later, the new generation of OPPO’s foldable flagship Oppo Finds N2 came again, with all-around upgrades in terms of screen, performance, and imaging, and became the first horizontal folding screen mobile phone equipped with Mariana X’s self-developed imaging core.

1. Lead the folding screen into the lightweight era

In OPPO Find N2, to reduce the weight of the whole phone, OPPO has lightened all the parts that affect the importance of the phone, ranging from the material and structure of the folding hinge to the screws of the whole phone.

Introduce aerospace-grade materials to miniaturize the hinge shape, use carbon fiber materials as the screen support frame, and replace all the screws inside the fuselage with titanium alloy materials to reduce weight.

In the end, the weight of the OPPO Find N2 is controlled at about 233 grams, which is even lighter than the mainstream flagship candy bars on the market, leading the folding screen into the era of lightweight.

2. The newly upgraded Samsung E6 luminescent material

The internal and external dual screens of OPPO Find N2 both use the latest Samsung E6 flexible AMOLED screen. The peak brightness of the full screen can reach 1200nit. The internal screen supports an adaptive refresh rate of 1-120Hz, and the external screen supports a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz.

Secondly, there is a color temperature sensor on the back of the mobile phone, which is the first time in the field of folding screens to realize the adaptive display of the color temperature of the internal and external dual-screen environment, which can ensure the comfort of human eyes in any scene.

3. The three-camera module is upgraded with a customized Sony IMX890 main camera

OPPO Find N2’s rear main camera is equipped with Sony’s customized IMX890 sensor, which supports 10-bit video shooting.

The telephoto lens is upgraded to the 32-megapixel Sony IMX703, and its light sensitivity has improved greatly compared to the previous generation.

The ultra-wide-angle is upgraded from 13 Megapixels of the previous generation to 48 Megapixels, and the resolution for ultra-widescreen shooting will be even better.

4. Snapdragon 8+ mobile platform

Based on TSMC’s 4nm Snapdragon 8+, the energy efficiency ratio is obvious to all.

In the folding screen mobile phone, the complex folding hinge structure and the display components of the inner and outer dual screens make the internal space of the folding screen insufficient to lay a large-area cooling module. To reduce heat generation and the accumulation of the interior space of the mobile phone, a high-energy best chip is the best choice, which not only meets the performance release and power consumption control during high-load games but also meets the loading speed of low-load APPs.

Design

The packaging of OPPO Find N2 adopts a flat design, and the silver-gray with black looks high-end and noble. The external screen of OPPO Find N2 uses a 5.54-inch AMOLED screen, which is 0.5 inches larger than the previous generation, but the screen ratio is changed to 17.7:9, which makes the whole machine more comfortable to hold.

After unfolding, the inner screen of OPPO Find N2 uses a 7.1-inch AMOLED screen, and both the inner and outer screens use Samsung E6 luminescent materials and support a 1-120Hz adaptive adjustment refresh rate. As a folding screen mobile phone, OPPO Find N2 adopts a newly upgraded ultra-light and solid Seiko quasi-vertical hinge, satisfying folding and hovering while bringing more reliable performance.

The back shell of the mobile phone is made of lychee grain leather, and the black color can show a high-end business atmosphere. OPPO Find N2 has three rear cameras, a noise reduction microphone, a color temperature sensor, and an LED fill light, and the Kazakh Soviet name logo is printed on the bottom.

The power adjustment button and volume button of OPPO Find N2 are located on the right side of the fuselage, and the fingerprint recognition function is integrated into the power button. There is a noise-canceling microphone on the top of the fuselage and four antenna strips.

OPPO Find N2 is different from other candy bar phones. Its speakers do not adopt a symmetrical design up and down but a left-right symmetry. When the screen is unfolded, the stereo sound of the left and right channels of watching movies and TV is stronger. The bottom of the phone is also equipped with a Type-C and earphone-shared interface, a SIM card slot, and a microphone. OPPO Find N2 comes with a 67W super flash charging adapter.

In addition, we also conducted a weight test on it and compared it with the mainstream horizontal folding screen mobile phone vivo X Fold+, Honor Magic Vs., and candy bar mobile phone Mi 11 Ultra on the market.

OPPO Find N2 is 235.8g, slightly heavier than the official 233g, within a reasonable range. The overall weight of the candy bar mobile phone Mi 11 Ultra is 237.7g. The overall weight of the Honor Magic Vs. The folding screen phone is 262.4g. The overall weight of the vivo X Fold+ folding screen mobile phone is 312.5g.

After comparison, we can see that OPPO Find N2 is the lightest among these models, and its weight is even weaker than that of straight-screen phones. So far, the weight is no longer a burden for folding screens.

Screen

To solve the software adaptation problem brought by the large screen, OPPO Find N2 fully adapts the application UI, APP, and operation logic for the 7.1-inch internal screen. It uses the characteristics of the folding screen to have special operation modes, such as hovering mode, making OPPO Find N2 richer in usage scenarios.

App split screen

The first is the application split screen. In the APP, swipe down from the top with two fingers to call the application split-screen function. We can immediately select the second application that needs to be opened to enable dual-app operation on the same screen.

During split-screen operation, dragging the center line can adjust the display ratio of the APP so that a specific APP can be displayed in a larger and clearer proportion.

Free floating window

In an APP, sliding four fingers inward can quickly pinch the application to the floating window mode, and you can drag the window’s position at will and adjust the window size.

If the APP is not used temporarily, it can also be hidden on the right side to avoid blocking the screen due to the large window. When using it, click the bubble on the side to exhale quickly.

Parallel windows

Parallel windows are an indispensable feature in horizontal folding screen phones, and OPPO Find N2 is no exception.

When using a large screen for APP browsing, it will be divided into two windows on the left and right to display simultaneously. The windows on both sides do not affect each other in operation, just like the secondary menu on the PC, which can be easily used.

Hover mode

The hovering angle of the OPPO Find N2’s inner screen is 45°-125°, covering many usage scenarios. At the same time, it is adapted to richer third-party applications. When hovering, you can watch movies, hold meetings, make video calls, and even conduct Yoga practice, completely getting rid of the shackles of the mobile phone holder.

We fold the mobile phone screen to 90 degrees, and the system automatically enters the hover mode and provides several major modules such as camera, video, and motion.

When entering the camera application, the interface layout is readjusted, the upper half of the mobile phone screen becomes a preview window, and the lower half becomes an operation window. Gestures are operated by sliding left and right.

With this function, when we are doing time-lapse photography or slow-motion shooting, we can stand up the mobile phone, and it can become a stand by itself, which is more convenient for shooting.

Regarding the viewing experience, the upper part of OPPO Find N2 becomes a video player, and the lower part can still operate on the video.

In addition, we can also use the hover mode to perform yoga exercises and interact with the course videos without needing a mobile phone bracket.

What we have experienced is just the tip of the iceberg of the hovering mode, and more apps will support this mode in the future, which will also bring a brand new experience to our large-screen ecology.

Screen Relay

In terms of front and rear dual-screen interchangeability, OPPO Find N2 is one of the best folding screens. Games, audio, and video can be streamed instantly after quickly switching the size of the screen without any problems such as stuttering and application incompatibility. Horizontal and vertical screens Switch coherent.

Compatibility mode

In the large screen area, there is a built-in compatibility mode. Users can set the window display ratio of the APP by themselves and provide three display modes: full-screen use, 16:9 ratio, and 4:3 ratio. In different APPs, try to use the normal ratio. To show.

Theoretical performance

OPPO Find N2 is equipped with the Snapdragon 8+ mobile platform, supplemented by a maximum of 16GB RAM+512GB ROM, which is the version we got. Next, we conduct a theoretical performance test, representing this series’s highest level of performance.

AnTuTu

The first is AnTuTu’s comprehensive performance test. The total score broke through the 1 million mark and reached 1.08 million+, of which the CPU score was 252682 points, and the GPU score was 467408 points. Compared with the Snapdragon 888 on OPPO’s first-generation Find N folding mobile phone Chip, these two items have increased by 19.4% and 44.6%, respectively. It seems that the performance of the theoretical GPU has been greatly upgraded.

Master Lu

In the comprehensive performance test of Master Lu, the total score of OPPO Find N2 exceeded 1.22 million.

GeekBench 5

In the single CPU test, the GeekBench 5 single-core score is 1044 points, and the multi-core score is 3681 points, which are 5% and 10.2% higher than Find N, respectively.

GFXBench

Next is the GPU individual test. In the six routine tests of 1080P, the ruins OpenGL, the ruins Vulkan, and the racing chase achieved 122 FPS, 138 FPS, and 104 FPS, respectively.

After the first three rounds of tests, the temperature of the mobile phone gradually increased, and the test results of the last three items can reflect the performance of the mobile phone in high-rendering 3D games. Manhattan 3.1, Manhattan, and Tyrannosaurus rex ran 183 FPS and 266 FPS, respectively. And the score of 442 FPS is about 90.6%, 92.8%, and 83.4% higher than that of OPPO Find N.

It is enough to see that the GPU performance improvement of OPPO Find N2 is quite obvious, but the specific game performance still needs to look at in the test data later.

Androbench

In terms of storage, the OPPO Find N2 has a sequential read rate of 1726.69MB/s, a sequential write rate of 1424.44MB/s, a random read rate of 118.24MB/s, and a spontaneous write rate of 361.84MB/s, in line with UFS 3.1 specifications Flash level.

Game Test

In the game test section, we selected three representative mainstream mobile game masterpieces with low, medium, and high loads, namely “Glory of the King,” “Peace Elite,” and “Yuan Shen.” Under the environment, use the 7.1-inch internal screen to test with frame rate priority.

1. Glory of Kings

We first tested the “Honor of Kings” mobile game. With the highest frame rate and image quality, the game runs at 60FPS. After a team battle for nearly 15 minutes, the average frame rate can reach 59.9 FPS. There is almost no fluctuation, and OPPO Find N2 can cope with such low-load games without any problem.

The highest temperature on the front of the fuselage is only 33.1 degrees Celsius, and the back of the fuselage is 31.8 degrees Celsius. Holding the phone with both hands does not irritate due to overheating, but only a warm feeling.

2. Peace Elite

The Peace Elite mobile game, in OPPO Find N2, supports HDR high-definition mode at the highest frame rate. It takes nearly 20 minutes to play a team battle game. The frame rate of the game is stable at 60FPS. There is almost no fluctuation, and the average frame rate is maintained. At 59.8 FPS, the average frame rate variance is only 0.6.

The highest temperature on the front of the mobile phone is 38.8 degrees Celsius, and the highest on the back is 36.6 degrees Celsius. The high-temperature areas are located near the camera, but the overall heat dissipation performance of the mobile phone is still relatively good among many foldable large-screen mobile phones.

3. Original God

Finally, there is the high-load Yuanshen mobile game. With the highest image quality + 60 frame mode turned on, the mobile phone can run stably at 60FPS for the first 9 minutes, and then there will be intermittent small frame drops. After 20 minutes of game testing, The average frame rate is maintained at 59.4FPS with an average variance of 1.5.

As a large 7.1-inch folding screen, running at such a high frame rate is also considered a very good level.

After temperature testing, the highest temperature on the front of the fuselage is 42.5 degrees Celsius, and the highest temperature on the back is 39.6 degrees Celsius.

Cameras

OPPO Find N2 has three rear cameras. The main camera uses the IMX890 flagship sensor jointly developed by OPPO and Sony, which has a large photosensitive area of ​​1/1.56 inches, an aperture of f/1.8, a single pixel size of 1 μm, and a fusion pixel of 2 μm. Under low-light conditions, the fusion pixels are automatically triggered to increase the amount of light entering.

The ultra-wide-angle lens is a 48-megapixel Sony IMX581 sensor with a 1/2-inch photosensitive unit and a 0.8-micron single pixel that supports 115-degree wide-angle shooting. The default four-in-one output is 12 million pixels.

The telephoto lens has a 32-megapixel Sony IMX703 sensor, supports 2x optical zoom, and outputs a four-in-one 8-megapixel image. OPPO Find N2 has a built-in Mariana X self-developed chip, the world’s first 6nm image dedicated NPU, 18 trillion.

The next top-level computing power allows Find N2 to support 4K 30FPS ultra-clear night scene shooting capabilities and the folding screen video.

Main Cameras

In the daytime proofs, with the powerful combination of IMX890 outsole sensor and Hasselblad image, combined with the blessing of the Mariana X algorithm, the overall color saturation is higher, and it can restore complex colors very well.

In the night scene mode, the advantage of the Sony IMX890’s outsole can be highlighted. With the higher light input, the high light of the light board is well suppressed, and there is not too much noise. It can also take high-quality photos in low-light environments. Screen.

Telephoto

Regarding a telephoto lens, the 32-megapixel Sony IMX703 uses 4-in-1 8-megapixel output as output. The larger single-pixel area better demonstrates the transparency of the picture. The proofs are purer.

Ultra Wide Angle

The 48-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens supports a 115° field of view. With the support of Mariana X, the picture quality presented is still relatively clear even at night when there is insufficient light, and the distortion on both sides is well controlled. Satisfactory proofs can be taken at your fingertips.

Battery

OPPO Find N2 is equipped with a 4520mAh capacity battery and is equipped with 67W super fast charging.

Charging test

After testing, starting from 5%, it can be charged to 38% in 10 minutes, 63% in 20 minutes, 86% in half an hour, 98% in 40 minutes, and only 42 minutes to fully charge.

Endurance test

For the battery life, we use a professional battery life test tool – the battery dog ​​produced by Kuai Technology.

In terms of test items, we chose the limit battery life test. We checked all the test items, including CPU high voltage, CPU multi-threading, AI recognition, picture browsing, video playback, and web browsing, to simulate realistic usage scenarios and restore the whole load to the greatest extent. Infinitely close to the real power consumption.

We turn off the automatic brightness of the OPPO Find N2 screen, manually adjust the brightness to 50%, and use the 7.1-inch inner screen to start the test from 100% power.

After testing, the power consumption of OPPO Find N2 from 100% to 20% took 7 hours and 29 minutes. After conversion, the full battery life can reach nearly 9 hours, which can meet the daily users’ daily use.

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Verdict

As OPPO’s second horizontal folding screen mobile phone, Find N2 has become the perfect mobile phone with its advanced ultra-light and solid Seiko quasi-vertical hinge, increasingly mature system ecology, and multi-angle hovering complete form. Horizontal folding machine.

After this period of experience with OPPO Find N2, we make the following conclusions:

1. The leader of the big trend of light and compact folding screen

OPPO Find N2 breaks people’s stereotypes of horizontal folding screen mobile phones, making the large folding screen have a weight comparable to that of a bar machine for the first time. The lightweight and customized body and structure even change the material of the internal fixing screws. It is enough to see that OPPO is committed to making a lightweight folding machine. And OPPO’s insistence on making light folding screens may make it a leader in the trend of lightweight folding screen mobile phones.

2. Complete folding screen ecology

At the system level, OPPO Find N2 uses practical functions such as floating windows, parallel windows, and hovering modes to stimulate the potential of large screens. Then it uses functions such as relay between large and small screens and multi-angle hovering to realize the smooth flow of internal and external dual screens. Users bring a complete folding screen ecological experience.

3. The performance and power consumption of the Snapdragon 8+ chip are fully upgraded

The Snapdragon 8+ mobile platform equipped on OPPO Find N2 has opened up a big gap in game performance compared with the previous generation. The high-load Yuanshen can also run above 59 frames. The OPPO Find N is simply impossible.

Regarding power consumption and heat generation, the highest temperature of the fuselage is only 42.5 degrees Celsius.

4. Mariana X’s self-developed core image system goes a step further

OPPO Find N2 has a built-in self-developed Mariana X chip, and the improvement in imaging capabilities is visible to the naked eye.

When taking pictures at night, the main camera, telephoto, and ultra-wide-angle three-camera modules’ white balance performance are almost the same. The self-developed chip also plays a big role, and the original dark picture is bright and clear after chip algorithm tuning. There will be no noise and photo whitening caused by overexposure.

In general, OPPO Find N2 is not a simple product iteration, but after the first test of the Find N small screen folding, it has carried out a major transformation in weight, performance, image, system, and screen. , with a basic configuration of 12+256GB and a starting price of 7,999 yuan, you can own a compact, lightweight, and full-featured folding machine. It is the best choice for using a folding-screen mobile phone for the first time.