Oppo Find N5 – Unboxing

Today I received a package that I’ve been very much excited about receiving.

It is a phone that I have imported with the help of the chaps over at the Average Dad Tech Store who are one of the exclusive importers of this device. and if you are interested in purchasing you should head over and check out their deals.
The device I’m talking about is of course the Oppo Find N5 Folding smartphone. This device is essentially what would have been had OnePlus decided to launch
under their brand, the OnePlus Open 2.

Having been someone who has used the OnePlus Open for the last three to four months, I was very excited about getting hold of this phone as soon as I saw its announcement.
This is the reason why I have worked alongside the team at Average Dad Tech Store to get an import device, which they have generously loaned me for a short while to allow me to determine whether…
I will be keeping the device, but most importantly, allow me to bring a review along with unboxing and other associated content to you, our cool smartphone readers.
So, without further ado, let’s get into the unboxing video below.

As you can see from the unboxing video above, the Oppo Find N5 is astonishingly thin at 4.21mm when unfolded. It is currently the thinnest book-style foldable device available in any market worldwide, being just a tiny bit slimmer in its unfolded state than the previous leader which was the Honor Magic V3.

Now there has been a lot of discussion about whether we needed such a thin device and whether the sacrifices to certain elements such as the cameras and the speakers were worth this pursuit of thinness. Having just unboxed the phone and not been able to use it for any succinct period of time, I am unable to answer those questions right now. but I look forward to finding out over the duration of the next couple of weeks.

To further assess some of the design choices made in this phone, let’s compare below to the predecessor, the OnePlus Open.

With the phone closed, we can see the Oppo Find N5’s screen is slightly taller than that of the OnePlus Open, and the front screen is also a tiny bit wider. When it is open the Oppo Find N5 adopts a similar squarish shape but it is just bigger in every proportion as the internal display is now measuring at 8.13″ diagonally.

The button placement is very similar between the two devices with the buttons being slimmer than they were on the Open

Of course, we do have the alert slider on the top edge of the phone, on the right-hand side, above the volume up and down rocker, when the phone is folded closed. Underneath the volume rocker, we have our sleep/wake and power button which also pulls double duty as a fingerprint reader this fingerprint reader is fast and responsive as you would expect from any modern foldable flagship these days.

Moving down to the bottom of the phone, we find the USB-C charging port, which barely fits within the phone’s frame.

I have been reliably informed that they had to design the thickness of the frame around the USB-C port and that as a result there has been significant reinforcement made in this area. As the last thing we want to see is what happened with the original Surface Duo where the frame was seen to crack around the USB-C port.

Having mentioned the USB-C port, hopefully it is not something that you will need to use very often unless you really want to take advantage of the SuperVOOC charging capability which will charge your phone from zero to full in 45 minutes at a maximum charging speed of 80W, if used with the included charging brick. If you use any other charger, then you will not get the SuperVOOC charging capability, but the phone will still charge at a comparatively fast speed.

However, this is not the only way to charge the Oppo Find N5, as the clever boffins at Oppo have somehow managed to fit a wireless charging pad/coil into the back of the device underneath the camera bump. This will allow up to 50W of AirVooc charging, if used with the appropriate AirVooc charger which is incidentally, the same AirVooc wireless charger that was recently launched alongside the OnePlus 13.

Moving up from the charging coils, we do of course have the camera bump. Now again, to compare with the OnePlus Open, we can see that the camera bump is significantly smaller in terms of overall size and depth from its forebear, the Find N3/OnePlus Open. This is in part because they have tweaked the cameras, with one of the significant areas of reduction being the ultra-wide lens, which has now been reduced to an 8-megapixel lens. That being said, they have still managed to keep the 50-megapixel normal camera and a three times optical zoom with 50-megapixel capabilities. Given that I don’t tend to use the ultra-wide cameras very much, I don’t feel that this is going to be too much of a compromise for me when you look at the rest of the package.

One other final area I want to look at quickly is the speakers. The OnePlus Open had a rather novel three-speaker design setup. This allowed you to get the optimum sound from the phone regardless of how you held it this triple speaker setup also allowed for a louder overall volume.

The Oppo Find N5, however, has been forced to resign the third speaker and adopt the much more uniform two-speaker setup. These speakers are both positioned on the front screen, which would be the left-hand side of the phone when unfolded, and therefore will produce a stereo effect when the phone is in its landscape orientation, however, when being held vertically, you may not get the full benefit of stereo speakers. Again, this is something that I will have to further assess over a period of time.

Here are a few more glamour shots for you

Here is a Specs table with all the juicy details.

That concludes my very brief hands-on with the Oppo Find N5.

I will be using this phone as my daily driver for the next few weeks to assess whether this is a sufficiently capable replacement for my OnePlus Open and also to see how it performs against
the OnePlus 13 which I have as its stablemate.

I hope that you follow my journey with this phone over the next coming weeks and if you are interested in purchasing one of these devices then please do head to the Average Dad Tech Store,  they are getting fairly consistent stock coming in, and where you will get the best price and best customer service experience available of all of the Chinese phone importers.

If you want to find out more about either the Average Dad Tech Store or look at some of the other devices he imports, then do head over to his YouTube channel, and give him a follow and a like.

Check back here in the next few days for my camera comparison and more of my first impressions.