you might remember that I wasn't the biggest fan of the Galaxy Z flip 4
because it's like why is the the vertical flipping I don't get it but
Oppo sponsored this video on the find N2
flip which has a similar form factor but with some tweaks to maybe make it more
interesting so maybe they can change my mind you know maybe maybe this form
factor is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me we'll have to find out in
this unboxing of of the thing I just
said so there's still not a ton of
vertically flipping phones out there in
the world there's a Samsung Galaxy flip there's the Motorola Razer I think there
might be one or two other ones but it's still somewhat of a new form factor so
companies are still figuring out how to make the most of it how you know what to
put on the exterior screen how big to make the screen inside you know the
crease on the on the on the inside display is is still an issue but Oppo
thinks that they've uh addressed many of those things but before we actually get
to the phone itself I'm going to tell you what's in the box of the Oppo Find
into flip there's a big chunky power
adapter 67 Watts with supervuke it also
comes with okay interesting it comes with a USB a to USBC uh charging cord
and then we got a chunky envelope with a
special letter the letter says I'm not a
letter I'm a I'm a case for your phone doc documents quick guide safety guide
another safety guide for extra safety very cool very cool to know all of that
stuff is in the Box uh is that it wow it's Christmas it's Christmas
hasselblood Oppo has partnered with hustle blood I think that they started
on uh on OnePlus phones and now they've brought this integration into the main
Oppo line um I like the feel in the hand it's pretty
thin is that rubberized there's like a
bumper around the display that's actually really cool I don't think the
Galaxy Z flip 4 had that that's cool I mean it makes it look like
slightly less premium but I actually really like that because
that way I know that you know when you flip it closed you're not there's not
like metal on plastic on plastic it's like you know there's a little bit of a
protection there when you when you when you when you clap when someone has done
something really well good job
that flip motion felt felt pretty smooth this is using oppo's flexion hinge
technology and apparently that also contributes to the less visible screen
crease I mean we'll that will be the judge of that when we turn it on obviously you know when it's off any
foldable phone you're gonna be able to see that crease right in the middle but I'll be the judge of how effective it
hides it when the phone display is actually on on the right side we have a
volume rocker and a power button slash fingerprint reader I'm guessing
yep on the bottom we got the USB type-c
port a speaker is there another speaker on the top nope just one speaker on the
bottom and a SIM card tray that can hold
two 5G SIM cards something that we air
in North America are not really used to having but is fairly you know standard
in China and Europe um on this side we got nothing and on
the top which I already looked at I mean we got some mics or something I don't
know ambient noise sensor I'm just making this stuff up
so on the back you might have noticed I didn't say anything about it the first
time because I was just reading the text down here I'm just more of a text guy
but this is what Oppo says is the
largest uh display on the front of a you
know flippy Style full folding phone like this it is 3.2 inches with a
resolution of 720 by 382. I just remember that off the
top of my head over here we have one of these is a 50
megapixel main shooter and a 8 megapixel
wide camera and then a Flash and another type of doohickey sensor there's
information going in there trust me and oh one more thing about the the back
here while we're here this is the moonlit purple uh color and it's
anti-fingerprint they also have another color called astral black all right
let's see how this thing plays when there's some power in the in the room
why does it turn on all right let's see this all right all right it's not
turning on I pressed the button like turn on for me
is it okay there we go I'm not a very forceful person we've got a uh nice big
6.8 inch display here apparently the
brightness goes up to 500 nits typical that is pretty bright on the display in
person you know it it it's not overwhelming uh 1600 nits uh Peak
brightness uh so that's pretty good actually phones in China uh often launch
without Google Play services but this one does have Google Play services so
let's go to YouTube because I wanna I wanna look at how how nice this screen
looks we'll have to see with crab rave
colors look pretty nice I mean obviously you know it's hard to not compare
something when to another phone when it's not right there in front of you but
I mean this looks pretty nice to me it's a 25 20 by 1080 resolution with a
refresh rate of 120 hertz although like
most uh phones with fast refresh rates these days it does have adaptive refresh
rate so it'll change depending on what you're doing let's listen to the
speakers okay skip
at max volume there is like a slight bit
of distortion so uh just be aware of that although if you've kind of just
take it down a little bit from Max it it uh the Distortion basically goes away a
lot of the time phone speakers you know end up sounding really tinny with a lot
of like high-end but not a ton of the lower end so it's nice to see that like
it does have some oomph we can talk about the normal phony type features of
the phone all day but what we are really interested in with a phone like this
that full holds in half is you know the
things more related to that like the fact that there's this giant screen on the front now
um one of the features that Oppo has added is this kind of like automatic uh
feature where it shows information related to the app that you just had
open on the front display so if you were listening to music as we just were on
YouTube you close it up and you can still control it right there I don't
even have the app open I closed the app but it knows that that was the last
thing I was doing so then it has it right there that's pretty cool there are
some other things you can do with the front display there's a little lock icon
there because I have to unlock it with the fingerprint reader which gonna
oh what was that was it just checking my face I thought
the face unlock only worked when the phone was open from the inside but when
you close it it locks but if you look at it if you set up face unlock as I have
a second but it did it it's now on the cover screen you have a couple more options
available to you than when it was locked if you you can swipe down to access your
quick settings you can swipe up to have notifications and if you swipe
to the left you get widgets now Samsung had this in
their Galaxy Z flip as well like you'd think that you would would just be able
to use this like it's the size of a little phone screen I will say that this
is way bigger than the one on the z-flip 4 which is really nice now that it's so
big I want to use it like a regular phone it's going to tell me that I can't
use it like a regular phone I can't like you know use it as if it's a tiny little
phone ass I have to use these widgets which is you know it's something I have
to say before I go any further that as cool as it is to use the the cover
screen for stuff in what situation are
you not going to be able to just unflip it and do this is why I don't understand
this form factor I mean okay look I'll say this as far as
uh you know the flip form factor goes
people want to use it people think it's cool I will say yeah it's definitely
cool well I got a call that felt really cool do you know how
cool I am person I'm talking to on the phone and they don't because I didn't
see you do it so at the very least they're making the screen as big as
possible so that's good so if I swipe to the uh swipe to the right I get some
options to use the the camera we're going to look at that in a second and
then we got weather we got uh
timer oh that's kind of cool you just like take it and go poop start a 15
minute timer so if you swipe down on the home screen it brings you to this shelf
interface which appears to be basically like you know a bunch of widgets that
you can add to a separate section other than adding them instead of adding them
to the home screen honestly I kind of appreciate that I've always liked
widgets I view I used them back on my like 2006 MacBook when when Apple added
them but Apple had them on a separate
screen which I kind of like actually because I like my home screen to be very very simple now despite all my
misgivings about this form factor what you're looking at here is probably
one of the biggest uh advantages of
having a form factor like this because you can you have these cameras that in
other phones are locked into this slab form factor and you're trying to take a
photo and you do this and it's so annoying but with a flip phone you can
kind of just set it up like that and
I mean just look at it really it looks cool now I'm doing a video call and I
want to so I slick slick down into my chair like this and that and now we're
we're now we're talking quarterly reports let's actually open the camera
up and uh see some of the different ways that they've implemented this so yeah
okay so we got this um oh hello okay so that's something I'm complaining about a
little bit I would like it to have a little bit more
foreign I would like it to have a little bit
more ability to stay exactly where I wanted to be there
but you know overall I think that that's not too bad
and it can definitely have a lot more range before closing automatically on
this side of the hinge but when it gets to this side it kind of wants to go a
little bit more move further away I can take a photo of the guys like this
oh wait I'm gonna do a video are you ready and it's going to be like a dolly
here we go
now look shocked oh wow and likewise you
can flip the camera around with the flip this one
and now I'm on video mode and now I can talk
down to you like I'm better than you because
don't forget I am
other flip phones have had features like this where you are able to see the
preview of the camera on the uh on the
cover screen here but you know with this big honking screen on
the front it's I feel like it's better than ever because now I can actually see
what I look like oh man is there like blurring too automatically I want you to
see the real me ready guys
yay okay
oh my gosh look at that background blurring I mean I'm in portrait mode I
guess Oppo also added this feature called dual screen view the ability to
see the preview of what you're going to take for the photo on this side and that
side at the same time so if you're taking a photo of people who are very
very particular about how they want to look they can direct you like Sven he
won't shut up about it honestly I need my perfect angle so those people can
kind of direct you uh to how they want the photo to be now if I say Ultra wide
here you get that that's reflected for you guys too I'm just gonna take just
you guys just to remember this moment and we'll be like remember when we did
that shoot for five hours three do one go oh nice and boom and now I'm in
camcorder capture mode
they they want you to do this so that it just does
also have a camcorder uh record mode
because you know I I'll say that like
really when I first saw people uh doing it with uh flip phones but I can kind of
understand like it is a little easier to record something like with your phone
like with your hand in this position than it is to like hold your phone out
like this the whole time or like this interestingly the selfie camera is 32
megapixels which is actually like that's a lot I mean I you know I don't know
we're not doing extensive testing on the quality but like this looks looks pretty
sharp as far as selfie cameras go and other phones that I've seen
um with the 50 megapixel and an 8 megapixel on the back it's cool to see
them throw a 32 megapixel as the selfie here
here in my garage
okay so a couple things about the phone that I haven't really mentioned yet it's
got a dimensity 9000 octa-core processor they've also got the Mary silicon X
neural Processing Unit in there you know every phone has to have some sort of
neural network chip but another interesting thing is that this has the
largest battery of any of the kind of like pocket flip phones at 4 300
milliamp hours that combined with the super vook charging uh should make it so
that you aren't really uh hurting for uh for power at any point color OS is the
other thing um this is based on Android 13 and
interestingly Oppo has a different you
know Android skin for their Oppo branded phones than they
do for OnePlus a lot of people like the oxygen OS uh implementation in OnePlus
phones and uh color OS is also pretty
good although I would really like to see them bring some of the other features
that oxygen OS has that are very popular over to the uh the color OS as for RAM
and storage uh the base model has 256
gigs of storage and eight gigs of RAM and that's going to be around a thousand
dollars US or whatever that equivalent of of that is in Europe and and China
but we also have this feature here that I've actually never seen in a phone but
apparently is is a thing that's going around right now you can claim some of
the 256 gig SSD as RAM by sliding that
up and then when you kind of come up to
your storage limit you're like I do need a little like I've used all 200 and
whatever it would be 252 gigs uh that
are left you can slide that back and use a little bit less RAM so you can really
just continue to be irresponsible with storage Management on your phone so
that's kind of cool to see honestly that's the first time I've seen it and
last thing the pocket test you don't say I'll see
I'll see you there
this is still why I don't really get it this actually feels a little bit
smoother than the Galaxy Z flip 4
sliding in there I think that they have a bit of a flatter Follow Me Down
good I think they have a little bit of a
flatter profile uh uh I think the Z flip
4 has like a little bit more of a space here I might be tripping but this feels
um very flat and slim going into the pocket so I'll you know I'll I'll side
with the flippy people uh a little bit by saying that if if you know if we can
get these phones down to a really Slim situation then I can understand a little
bit more but I still don't understand why you would want
a square in your pocket
instead of like a thinner
slab you know like I just I mean that doesn't that looks ugly like it's just
poking out of there it's just like hello all right you've convinced me all right
Oppo Fine I like flip phones now okay
are you happy I still I want to do the
big foldy boys uh but we'll we'll see I mean have we already done the Oppo Find
N2 non-flip maybe we will someday but
for now uh this has impressed me so
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