Titanium Media news on December 15, OPPO officially released its first folding screen flagship - OPPO Find N. From the appearance size to the system interaction, the new machine has made great innovative changes with the existing folding screen products, and the price starting from 7699 yuan has also broken the market status quo of folding screen mobile phones in 10,000 yuan, and promoted the folding screen mobile phone "from early taste to common use".
It is reported that OPPO Find N defines the golden folding ratio with a 5.49-inch 18:9 ratio outer screen and a 7.1-inch 8.4:9 ratio inner screen, taking into account the convenience of one-handed control and the immersion of the large screen. With its self-developed Seiko pseudo-vertebral hinge, OPPO Find N enables a new interactive experience with seamless concealed folding and free hover.
Break the conventional golden folding ratio
Over the past 10 years, smartphone screen sizes have grown by nearly 200 percent, and larger screens have brought immersive experiences while challenging users with regular grips, one-handed controls, and carry-on.
OPPO Find N external screen adopts a 5.49-inch screen with a ratio of 18:9, a fuselage width of 73mm, and can complete text input, look at pictures and other operations with one hand, with the front and back 3D curved surface design, bringing users a good feel of folding screen mobile phones.
After unfolding, OPPO Find N has a 7.1-inch landscape screen with a ratio of 8.4:9, and users do not need to rotate 90 degrees to get a focused large-screen experience.
Compared with other folding screen mobile phones, the proportion of OPPO Find N is slightly unique, in response to this problem, Titanium Media App made a simple communication with Liu Zuohu, senior vice president and chief product officer of OPPO after the meeting.
Liu Zuohu said that Find N is a relatively mature folding screen product created by OPPO after four years, and the determination of its form has undergone a lot of size attempts. The combination of small screen + large screen that appears today is a more balanced solution in terms of user experience, product weight and operability.
Moreover, OPPO's understanding of the folding screen has always been to take the large screen as the research and development direction, to make a product that is both good-looking and easy to use, so the design must serve the function.
As for the vertical folding scheme, OPPO did not consider it at the beginning. Because, the vertical folding screen mobile phone can be said to be a fashion, its characteristics are more prominent in the design of the aesthetics, but in the experience can not achieve better performance, especially the experience and endurance are problems.
In terms of design, the Find series integrated curved crater design is equipped with ceramic lens decorative films to further enhance the recognition and sophistication of OPPO Find N. Starry night, cloud, floating light three colors, can provide users with more personalized choices.
In addition, oppo Find N only weighs 275g, which is close to the weight of the protective case worn by traditional flagship mobile phones, ensuring light and portable, long-term grip without tiredness, and can also be easily put into pockets or bags.
Self-developed Seiko quasi-vertebral hinge
In the four years since the release of the first commercial folding screen mobile phone, "serious screen creases", "poor fuselage reliability", "unfree opening and closing" and so on have become several major problems criticized by users.
After 4 years and 6 generations, OPPO continues to explore screen hinge technology, launches a new generation of folding screen products with seamless concealment marks, provides multi-angle free hover, and achieves a comprehensive upgrade of reliability.
OPPO Find N adopts self-developed Seiko pseudo-vertebral hinge technology, contains 136 components, and the processing accuracy reaches 0.01mm. With the help of the delicate mechanical structure, the screen can form a natural water droplet shape when bending, which effectively reduces visual creases.
Certified by the German Rheinland Laboratory, compared with the traditional folding screen hinge scheme, OPPO Find N reduces visual creases by up to 80%, and is currently the folding screen mobile phone with the lightest creases.
When closed, the phone bezel closes seamlessly, effectively reducing dust ingress. Through the iteration of the 16th edition of the core component scheme, OPPO Find N can achieve a smooth opening and closing feel, and multi-angle free hover can be achieved within 50° to 120°, forming a new form between folding and opening.
In order to improve reliability, OPPO Find N screen adopts a new 12-layer composite structure design scheme, in which the customized stainless steel substrate design can effectively support the flexible screen, and uses the latest UTG ultra-thin flexible glass with a thickness of only 0.03mm, so that the screen has excellent bending performance and anti-fall and puncture resistance.
Oppo Find N is the first folding screen phone to pass the folding worry-free Rheinland certification and can still pass the folding test of 20w times even in the extreme environment of -20°.
For this self-developed Seiko quasi-vertebral hinge, Liu Zuohu repeatedly mentioned its advantages in the interview, including its combination with the flexible screen, durability and reliability. This hinge is also valuable in terms of cost, with a single cost of up to $100, which is 4 times or more than the traditional hinge solution.
In addition, the most noteworthy point is that OPPO is currently the first manufacturer to successfully combine water drop hinges and UTT glass.
Multiple screen forms bring new interactive experiences
Thanks to the unique hardware form and software adaptation, OPPO Find N for the first time on the large-screen folding screen mobile phone to achieve large-screen, split-screen, hover and other multi-form intelligent interaction, at present, OPPO Find N has been for WeChat, Vibrato, Youku and other commonly used applications for large-screen adaptation.
In the adaptation stage, Liu Zuohu revealed to the Titanium Media App that this is an extremely difficult, cumbersome and patient thing. Because the OPPO Find N screen ratio is relatively special, it is necessary to dock with third-party manufacturers one by one to complete the adaptation and other work, which requires a lot of manpower and time costs. In the end, OPPO Find N can already support most mainstream third-party app applications, and its functions also support a variety of ways to play the folding screen.
Taking advantage of the large screen, OPPO Find N can help users easily achieve multitasking and efficient processing in the split-screen state. OPPO Find N has a variety of multi-window management modes such as two-finger split screen and four-finger floating screen. Using OPPO's original "two-finger split screen" gesture, users can achieve split screen with only one step down with two fingers.
At the same time, OPPO Find N pioneered the "one-click multi-search" function, which allows users to present products, airline tickets, hotels, information and other content on different platforms with only one search.
OPPO Find N is the first folding screen mobile phone in China that supports hover viewing, hover music, hover conference, hover fitness, hover video call, and hover video. At the same time, OPPO Find N is also the industry's first folding screen mobile phone that supports 4K time-lapse photography.
For different forms, OPPO is also considering more accessory support, but subject to more labor costs in research and development, there is no energy to develop more accessories for the time being, so there is no more choice when the first announcement is made. But in the future, OPPO will gradually enrich the accessory ecology according to the more needs of users.
Snapdragon 888 flagship configuration
In terms of hardware, OPPO Find N is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 mobile platform, with a maximum storage combination of 12GB RAM + 512GB ROM.
In terms of screen, OPPO Find N is equipped with a flexible screen jointly developed with Samsung, which uses E5 luminous material to reduce the power consumption of 15% compared with the previous generation, and the intelligent dynamic refresh rate of 1-120Hz based on LTPO technology achieves a smooth and power-saving effect.
In terms of battery life, OPPO Find N has a built-in 4500mAh battery, which is one of the folding screen phones with the largest battery capacity at present, providing an excellent battery life experience.
In terms of price, OPPO Find N 8+256GB is priced at 7699 yuan, and 12+512GB is priced at 8999 yuan.
OPPO Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer Liu Zuohu
For this price, OPPO Find N has surprised many people very much. For folding screen mobile phones with tens of thousands of yuan on the market, the price is directly pressed to 6,000 yuan, and the price scythe is nakedly pointed at other friends.
The reason why OPPO will bring such a stunning price this time is because OPPO wants to make the folding screen really from "from early adopters to common use", only if the price is accepted, users can try, so as to accept, or put forward opinions to promote the development of folding screen mobile phones.
After the launch, OPPO Find N also opened pre-sales and sold out in minutes. For this performance, Liu Zuohu is also quite satisfied.
But he also said that the current stock situation is not too much, considering that compared with the traditional mobile phone, the price of OPPO Find N is still relatively high, and the user has not yet deeper understanding of the new form of folding screen, so there is not much stockpiling.
Then, Liu Zuohu also said that if the market acceptance of OPPO Find N is so high, it will increase the speed of mass production and further ensure market demand. However, in the stage when the production capacity has not yet risen, it can only be purchased in the form of invitation codes and so on. In other words, will OPPO Find N be the next financial artifact? (This article was first published on titanium media App)