After four years of developments and half a dozen prototypes, Oppo announced its first-ever folding smartphone, the Find N.
Do you see a crease in the photo above? You shouldn’t, because according to Oppo chief product officer Pete Lau (who is also the co-founder of OnePlus), that is one of the pain points of the folding smartphone form factor that Oppo set to address in developing its first-ever folding phone, the Find N. Lau made the comment in a blog post that serves as an introduction of sorts to the Find N. Many of the finer grain details like the chipset and other internal hardware will have to wait until next week. But in the meantime, Lau provided a higher level overview of the Find N’s finalized design, which is the «result of four years of intense R&D and six generations of prototypes.» In doing so, he also seemingly takes a subtle jab at Samsung, though he doesn’t mention the South Korean hardware maker by name.
