- Well, that's over. Time to show you guys this thing.
OPPO says that once you go foldable, you will never go back.
And honestly, so far for me, that's been true.
I've enjoyed my last six months daily driving
the Galaxy Z Fold3, but that doesn't mean I'm not ready for some fresh ideas.
I've had a number of issues. Hello, this pull tag, oh.
Oh, I see.
I've had a number of issues with the Z Fold3, including its sort of unwieldy form factor.
This super tall form factor, which can make it a little bit difficult to handle
in folded mode as well as some software anomalies,
like YouTube, which I consider to be a pretty fundamental mobile app,
doesn't include the stories feature. Okay.
The crease has been more noticeable than I initially allowed myself to admit.
And battery life has not been amazing.
With that said, I'm clearly still daily driving it.
So am I a believer in foldable devices? Absolutely.
And, at least on paper, I might just be a believer in the Find N as well.
OPPO has sought over the apparently six internal generations
of hinge designs to address pretty much every complaint
that I have. And there's some that I have a lot of hope about and some that I have a little less hope about.
So right out of the box, one of the things I noticed was that the fingerprint sensor,
it's in about the same location on the right-hand edge.
But if you notice, on my Z Fold3, for whatever reason,
Samsung hasn't seen fit to wake the device simply
by touching the fingerprint sensor, you actually have to press it,
kind of like a phone from many years ago. OPPO does away with this.
You simply touch the fingerprint sensor and boom. You're off to the races.
I love the hinge. Listen to that.
Ooh. And it actually feels as good as it sounds.
Compare that to the Z Fold3, which in fairness has been daily driven for a while now,
but it's just not the same experience.
One issue with foldables, by the way, that I've experienced over the last little while is that it's really hard
to keep the center screen clean. Normally, it's just kind of a,
you slide things in and out of your pocket. They can't get that dirty.
But my center screen gets really, really dirty.
It's not quite flat. It's one of those stupid little things.
It doesn't really matter. Obviously, I'm still using it.
But it's not ideal. You can see that, right? - [Mark] Yeah, yeah.
- It's just a couple of millimeters. But honestly, I think it more than makes up for it
in the aspect ratio. Because while the Fold Z3 is this kind of weird, tall,
hard-to-type-on thing, this, especially if you're someone
who used a candy bar phone way back in the day before the iPhone, it's actually kind of familiar.
It's got kind of a my old Blackberry vibe. And aside from not being a huge fan
of the included keyboard, I didn't find the prediction very useful, the actual ergonomics of typing are great.
I can't believe it took me this long to pull out the banana. Okay.
So the Z Fold3 is about 3/4 of a banana. And we've got the Find N,
it's about half a banana in height, okay, lttstore.com.
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for the outer display. Let's talk about the inner one.
It's 7.1 inches. It's LTPO OLED, which basically means
that they've sourced it from Samsung, including their ultra-thin glass.
What do they call it again? Whatever. OPPO's marketing name for it is Flexion UTG.
And in a nutshell, it means it's .03 millimeters thick,
which is what allows it to fold, and it uses the same LTPO OLED panels that Samsung is using
for their own devices, which means it gets nice and bright. It'll do up to a 1,000 nits, and it's able to operate
at variable refresh rates up to 120 Hertz, giving it a very smooth feel.
The first thing I noticed though wasn't the refresh rate. It was the lack of visibility of the hinge.
The Fold Z3, it's fine, but it is not on this level.
Look, if I try to catch the light... Here, you see that?
OPPO's hinge is really cool.
So they've got this internal shot in their press materials that shows you what they've done.
Samsung, okay, so they've actually got,
see, they've got a gap in the phone there. What OPPO's done instead is they've taken that,
probably realistically, same bend radius, and they've built it into their hinge
in this kind of teardrop shape inside the hinge hardware.
So not only does it make the phone sort of flatter
when you hold it, but it means that foldingness, that hinge is spread out so much more
that it is basically impossible to detect,
except when you go out of your way to catch the light, kind of like what I'm doing right now.
Okay, here's another cool thing. That was muscle memory from using the Z Fold3,
where I would open up a full screen content and immediately go like this in order to make the most
of my screen size. But on the Find N, you don't actually have to do that
because it's immediately open to landscape mode when you unfold it, thanks to their form factor.
So it definitely has a screen size disadvantage compared to the Z Fold3.
But from a usability standpoint, I gotta be honest with you guys,
I probably do 75% of my use on the front display,
messaging with people, making phone calls,
doing normal things like that. I do another 20% of my use here where I'm remoting
into a computer or looking at a big spreadsheet or something like that.
And then, on those rare occasions that I'm consuming content, it's now a couple of extra interactions to get
that couple of centimeters of extra screen diagonal. This is a lot more natural feeling.
It really is, even in the couple of short days
that I've been using it. It's also way more pocketable.
Look at this. Oh, oh, this is something really cool.
Check this out. So on the Z Fold3, you can set your apps to carry over to the front display.
And that's something that you can do on an app-by-app basis. Plex, if I am watching something and I close it,
it will automatically open up on the outer screen.
OPPO, in my opinion, actually has a better approach to this.
So if you wanna continue what you're doing, you close the device, see this...
Boom, you swipe up. So you don't have to just decide
on an app-by-app basis what you want the behavior to be. You can decide
on a use-by-use basis what you want the behavior to be.
Super cool. The multitasking, also really neat.
So you can throw any app into a floating version of itself.
Oh, this app does not support floating Windows. Okay, well, supported apps can be opened
in a floating window. Fine, whatever. Play Store, there you go. So there's your floating window.
Stop, stop. I've seen this before. You can drag it around on the top and this is really neat.
Okay, for whatever reason, I need my clock. So draw this down the center.
There, I've got my docs open on this side. Super cool, right?
Cool, right? I mean, I think it's cool, whatever. - [Jono] They did better than Samsung.
- Oh, you feel like they did it better than Samsung? Well, the other shoe is about to drop
because there are definitely some issues compared to Samsung, shorts and stories.
All of my features are here in YouTube. But then, watch this.
Just because my YouTube app works perfectly doesn't mean I'm gonna have a perfect experience
in every app. Oh, what was that? Hold on, let's try another one.
Let's open up YouTube.
Why is my shit sideways?
It turns out that whether this is an Android developer best practice
or whatever the case may be, the default behavior for many apps is
to open in portrait mode, and it seems like they detect that based on the pixel count
in either direction, instead of being based on how the device reports it's portrait mode.
So instead of having to rotate your phone for the rare occasion where you're consuming media,
now you actually have to rotate your phone to just use normal apps on the inside display,
which I personally did not find to be better.
Honestly, I didn't cherry pick those too. I've only been using it for a couple of days.
So there you go. There's another one. I have not tried mobile band-aid on this yet.
Spotify? Okay, Spotify manages to open in the mode that I'm in.
Awful, awful foldable instrumental experience. Okay, that's that's bad on any foldable device right now.
Another issue I ran into was handle ability. While I really like the shape compared
to the Z Fold3, this finish, gorgeous.
OPPO calls it glittery glass, I think, and it's... Man, you can't appreciate it properly
until you've looked at it up close. From the distance, it's just matte black and it looks great.
Close up, it's gorgeous. Unfortunately, it's slippery enough that,
especially on a device like this, that's got a lot of weight hanging off of your hand.
I had major concerns about dropping the device
and it's the kind of thing that I would like to cover with a dbrand skin or other similar electronic sticker,
rather than leave naked. OPPO's also behind the competition
in terms of their IP rating. They don't offer any kind of certification for dust
or water resistance for this device. And this is something that is perhaps built into it,
as we saw on the OnePlus factory tour that we did a number of years ago.
But the fact that they're not certifying it, it means that I wouldn't, with confidence,
take this and put it next to my bath to watch TV
while I'm sitting in the tub or whatever the case may be. Now, I actually have not used the speakers much,
'cause I just paired my ear phones to them. But apparently they're Atmos.
There's two of them. That's a plus.
Let me hear it. Let's rave it up. (upbeat music)
Those are great. And honestly, the rest of the hardware is pretty great too.
It's using a Snapdragon 888. It's got 12 gigs of RAM, a 4,500 million power battery.
That is very close to what is in the Z Fold3,
which, actually, I have battery life issues with.
And it has support for OPPO's dash charge, or rather SuperVOOC, I think is what they call it
under the OPPO brand. It comes with a 33-watt charger.
It supports 15-watt wireless charging with 10 watts of reverse wireless charging
and has triple rear cameras with Sony's IMX 766 sensors.
I did notice that whether it's a processing lens or a sensor issue, the main shooter, is markedly...
Ha, ha, get it? Markedly (clears throat), less noisy than the others.
But your mileage may vary on that one. Look how washed out this zoom-in looks.
It's not even dirty.
I mean, you're not buying a foldable phone for the camera quite frankly anyway.
So don't consider this a full review. But unlike most short circuits,
I did spend a couple of days using the device and learning its ins and outs
because I did intend to do a full LTT video. I just ran out of time before the embargo lift,
which means I want to share a few deeper thoughts with you. On the hardware side, I love it.
I think they have done an absolutely fantastic job. The only things I could really ask for are an IP rating,
a microSD expansion slot. I mean a little thinner, a little bigger battery,
all that usual stuff. But overall, I think they've done just an outstanding job
of the hardware. It's on the software side that OPPO has to really step up
to impress me, especially if they want to sell this thing outside of China. This thing is chock full of just apps
that I have no idea what they do. I have absolutely no way to remove them that I can see,
other than just denying the notifications. There was no obvious way to change my voice assistant
from whatever this is to Google Assistant.
You saw on the Play Store, I searched for Netflix. It didn't bring anything up. That's because, out of the box, Netflix isn't compatible
with this device. That's probably something that I could solve
by sideloading it, but that's a hassle. That's a hassle that most people don't wanna deal with.
And so I think they've got some work to do. Clearly, their competition isn't doing a perfect job either.
So one of you, one of you step up.
Because from a hardware standpoint, I'm happy with either of them.
Honestly, I think OPPO's got it a little bit better, but the software is
where the experience is still being let down. And OPPO has more work to do than Samsung.
Actually, I should see if Samsung has magically fixed this.
Nope, still no stories. Okay, fine.
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