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I don't know why I keep doing this to myself. I was an early adopter of folding phones.

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That thing falls in the pool and then what? I go and get a folding laptop.

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And then now here I am on ShortCircuit doing a sponsored unboxing of the Find N3 Flip

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from Oppo, another folding phone, but with some interesting features.

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It doesn't even look like a folding phone. Wow, there is almost no crease.

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Yeah, you can catch it a little bit, but that's what the screen off.

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That's pretty cool. I'm sitting here going, you guys, you bait and switched me.

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It's got really thin bezels. It has very little discernible crease.

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It's not even thick. Ha, all right, included in the box.

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You've got a type A to type C cable, a charger.

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Wow. What's next? Is it gonna come with a screen?

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Oh, it does have a screen protector on it. I mean, that makes sense. Most folding phones do come with a screen protector.

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How long no last, that varies a little, but it does have one.

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And look at that, you can get a case. I like to live dangerously,

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so I probably won't use these.

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Oh, oh, oh wow, there's adhesive and everything. But there you go.

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They've got little protectors included. Put them on a little something like that.

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And wow, that is a giant camera bum.

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I don't even mean that it's super thick. Once you've got the case on,

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it's not gonna be the sort of thing that you would notice sliding it in and out of your pocket.

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But they've got three shooters on this thing. A 50 megapixel wide angle,

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a 48 megapixel ultra wide angle, and a 32 megapixel portrait camera.

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What makes it a portrait camera exactly? Let's go ahead and get it fired up.

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Even before we've got it fired up, there's plenty to look at on the outside though.

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Next to the camera, we've got their cover screen, which has Corning Victus Glass

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and support for over 40 apps. So you can snap pictures or change your music

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without actually opening up your phone, which they claim is good for 600,000 openings.

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And that crease I talked about before is apparently just 0.015 millimeters in depth.

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On the right, we've got our lock button, which does include a fingerprint sensor.

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Seems like it does. Sick, volume rocker.

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Then this is interesting. I noticed this. They have a ton of antenna bands around this thing.

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I don't know if that's specifically what they're referring to in this talking point,

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but they say the phone has what they call a 360 degree surround antenna to help alleviate dropped calls.

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So no matter how you're holding it, it should always get good reception.

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In practice, I don't know how well that works on this phone. We're gonna have a chamber set up

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to be able to test this sort of thing, but we're not there yet.

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One thing that stands out right away is the screen's nice and bright.

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Oh, okay, we have that at like crank brightness. I'll set this to kind of what I would normally

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consider to be reasonable. And man, with the screen on.

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Okay, seriously, can you guys even see the crease now?

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And the hinge design, which they're calling their micro-carved flowing hinge,

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is apparently rated for 600,000 openings.

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Now guys, from my personal experience with folding phones,

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I'm not gonna oversell the durability of any hinge until I've actually seen it survive

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hundreds of thousands of folds. But I will say that the crease is, or lack thereof,

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is really impressive. It just feels like a regular phone.

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You just flip it open.

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Oh, that's a really satisfying sound, isn't it? Oh, right, I never showed the other side of the phone.

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Check it out. Alert slider, baby. It disappears from the iPhone.

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And boom, it shows up on an Oppo. In all seriousness, this is probably inspired

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by their OnePlus subsidiary. And it's a feature that I have absolutely loved

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since, well, forever. It's a great feature, just being able to quickly

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switch between silent, vibrate, and ring. Enough about the internal display, though.

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Every phone has one of those. I wanna fire up the external one and see what the experience is like.

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Ah, it's like having a cute, adorable little phone. Ah, this is so ergonomic.

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I could take all the selfies. Wow, that's actually really impressive.

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I am directly backlit, you guys.

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The portrait mode apparently mimics the bokeh of the Hasselblad XCD 30 millimeter lens.

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And the 2X camera is apparently designed

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to mimic the bokeh effect of the Hasselblad XCD 65

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millimeter lens. Now, obviously, you don't have the same sensor in here

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that you would in a Hasselblad camera. And this is still going to be processing effects

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to a degree. But this is a collaboration that's been going on between these guys for years now.

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And I've gotta say the immediate impression is,

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well, you know what? I'll just let you guys be the judge. That is, that is a pretty convincing bokeh effect.

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It's still not gonna be on par with the best non-folding phones.

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I don't wanna set unrealistic expectations for you guys, but considering the size of the camera bump,

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especially relative to the overall thinness of the device,

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like it doesn't protrude that much, I think the results speak for themselves here.

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It's pretty impressive. Quick, oh, oh, oh, oh, interesting.

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Wow, there's all kinds of things you can do up here. You can have a few shortcuts here,

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like, I don't know, setting a quick timer, boop. Use gestures to make it go away.

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Bring it down from the top. You've got your main quick toggles. You can turn your Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on and off.

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And then if you swipe in from this side, you've got apps.

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Like weather. Hey, Cloverdale. It does 30 FPS 4K recording on all cameras,

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including 32 megapixel whole-punch selfie camera.

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And, huh, okay, I hope they have an easy way

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of changing it from a vivid profile to a more natural one.

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Yay, oh, this is perfect. Color temperature, nice and granular.

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Vivid, natural, ooh, pro modes.

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There you go. How's that? Oh, that looks so much better.

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Now seems like as good a time as I need to talk about the main screen. They claim it'll hit a peak brightness of 1600 nits

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with a pixel density of over 400 pixels per inch.

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It's 6.8 inches and will go anywhere from one to 120 hertz with an LTPO-type OLED display.

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So basically this is as state-of-the-art as it gets, but not quite as bright as you might find

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in a candy bar design because, come on guys, it's folding, that is sort of part of the point.

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It does support HDR10, so you'll see that it'll immediately flip over into HDR mode

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as soon as you open up an HDR YouTube video or something like that.

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Ooh, and you can adjust brightness in HDR. This has been a big push from Google

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to help the OEMs better implement HDR on their phones.

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That looks really nice. One other key spec for the main screen

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is that it's polarizer-free, which means it won't go dark every 90 degrees

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if you're wearing polarized sunglasses, and the whole thing is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 9200,

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which is kind of wild to think about a phone that costs anywhere from 900 to 1,000 US dollars

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having a MediaTek chipset, but they have come a long way,

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and the Dimensity 9200 looks like a solid competitor

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against the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. It's got 12 gigs of LPDDR5X memory,

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Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3, NFC, which is actually really solid when you consider

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that we're getting better 3D performance than the N2 Flip

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on top of it lasting for substantially longer.

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Wow, it reaches a 100% charge in an hour,

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which is a huge improvement over last gen, taking just 58 minutes with its 44 watt Super VOOC charging,

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which may not be useful all the time. Personally, I only charge at five volts, two amps maximum,

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but if you're in a hurry and you wanna plug into a fast charger, which conveniently,

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they actually include which is nice, it is really nice to be able to have a 50% charge

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under half an hour. This is an odd one. They specifically mentioned that the main screen

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supports always-on display, though for me personally, I would fold it,

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but I'm not using it, but... Not the main screen, it's the cover screen that supports.

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Oh, okay, the main screen doesn't, but that's okay,

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because I was sitting here going, what?

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Well, how would that make any sense? When you're not using this thing, it should be like this,

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but this screen does, so you can have new notifications,

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just pop up on the always-on display, so you can just kind of have it sitting next to you,

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check the time, quickly access whatever quick widgets you need,

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and see any incoming notifications. I wanna see that fingerprint sensor again, though.

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That's pretty fast.

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Of course, the most important feature is one I haven't talked about yet.

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That is the digital pet that you can keep

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on the outside display. This is great, you click and hold the cover screen,

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all right, and it brings up all these different views. You got weather, you can delete that,

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you've got, ooh, interactive pets, just like real pets,

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except they don't pee on your stuff, which is great. Let's go with this one.

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Is that a cat, a mouse, a balloon, a beaver?

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I think it's a beaver. What do I do with it? Is this just here all the time?

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This is clearly targeting a different demographic, I...

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Sure.

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Why don't we go ahead and check out the speakers?

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Huh. That's a lot better than I expected.

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What is it with flagship phones and making, like, equally expensive laptops look stupid?

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I don't get it. If anything, you have even more challenging design constraints.

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Oh, speaking of packing things in, it supports dual nano-SIMs and eSIM,

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and it's available today. Thanks to Oppo for sponsoring this video

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and to you guys for watching it. See you again at the next ShortCircuit.