- Oppo has shared details about the Find N5, which is likely to be renamed the OnePlus Open 2 outside of China
- The Oppo Find N5 will be extremely slim, with barely enough room for a USB-C port
- It will also have an IPX9 waterproof rating, which is very rare on phones
The OnePlus Open was one of the best foldable phones of 2024, so the company could have released a similar successor and still likely seen it fare well against the competition. Instead, it looks like we’ll be getting some major upgrades.
Across various Weibo posts seen by Android Authority, Oppo’s product manager Zhou Yibao has shared images and information about the Oppo Find N5, and based on past form, it’s likely that the OnePlus Open 2 will simply be a rebadged version of this device.
Going by this information, it’s not bad, as the Oppo Find N5 will be incredibly slim, with Yibao saying that “thinness is not the limit of the Find N5, but the limit of the charging port.” You can see this is the case in the images below, with only the tiniest sliver of bezel on either side of the USB-C port.
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This means that this is probably the slimmest foldable to date, and it will be impossible to make a foldable phone much slimmer than this without sacrificing the charging port, or the half without the port being much thinner, which could make the phone to feel unbalanced.
Some of the other images also highlight how slim this phone is, with the thickness equivalent to the thickness of four credit cards when the phone is unfolded, and much slimmer than an iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Unfortunately, no exact dimensions have been given, but the OnePlus Open 2 will almost certainly be a tad thinner than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, which is arguably its main rival – at least until the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 launches.
Impressively water resistant
And that’s not the only way that the Oppo Find N5 – and therefore likely the OnePlus Open 2 as well – has the Galaxy Z Fold 6 beat, as Zhou Yibao also revealed that it has IPX6, IPX8 and IPX9 waterproof ratings.
It’s the number at the end that’s relevant here, and most phones have an “8” at best, meaning they can be submerged at least 1.5 meters deep in fresh water for up to 30 minutes. Having the ‘9’ rating also means that this phone is also protected against high temperatures and high pressure water jets.
It’s not too surprising that this level of protection could be offered, as this was also a feature of the OnePlus 13, but it’s not present on most phones – including the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, which has an ‘8’ but not an ‘9’ rating.
However, the full rating on the Galaxy Z Fold 6 is IP48, where ‘4’ means it has protection against solid objects larger than 1mm in size. The Oppo Find N5 – and probably the OnePlus Open 2 too – has no such protection, so this is one area where Samsung has this rumored model beat.
It will be interesting to see if the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 can match this in terms of thinness and water resistance, but we doubt it.
As for when any of these phones might launch, we expect the Oppo Find N5 to be unveiled in February, but likely only for China. The OnePlus Open 2 will hopefully launch globally soon after, and the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 likely won’t land until July.
