On December 15, OPPO's first folding screen mobile phone OPPO Find N was officially released, equipped with Snapdragon 888 processor, priced from 7699 yuan, on the 23rd, OPPO Find N was officially launched, 5 minutes online omni-channel sold out, and won the Jingdong platform, Tmall platform mobile phone full price segment sales & sales double champion.
Folding screen mobile phones are still quite niche markets because of the cost of construction and creases, and the opening of OPPO's first folding screen mobile phone also means wide recognition by the industry and consumers.
As OPPO's first folding mobile phone, OPPO Find N not only has a super cost performance, but more importantly, OPPO Find N has also achieved the only seamless hidden trace on the market that can be hovered, and the crease is also the least obvious of all the folding screen mobile phones at present, which undoubtedly brings a revolutionary technological breakthrough to the folding screen mobile phone market, and single-handedly promotes the folding screen mobile phone "from early taste to common use".
Compared with other folding screen products on the market, the advantages of OPPO Find N are very obvious: the external screen size is 5.49 inches, the aspect ratio is 18:9, and there is a 3D small micro-curved design on the edge of the outer screen, which is a standard "small screen" straight board machine in the hand; after unfolding, it is a 7.1-inch 8.4:9 ratio inner screen, and the user does not need to rotate 90 degrees to get a focused large-screen experience. The new inner and outer screen size allows OPPO Find N to take into account the convenience of one-handed control and the immersion of the large screen, at the same time, with the help of self-developed Seiko imitation vertebral hinge, OPPO Find N also realizes the folding effect of seamless concealment and the new interactive experience of free hovering.
▲ OPPO shows different forms of folding screen solution prototypes
Behind the "folding screen mobile phone with the shallowest crease" mobile phone is OPPO's continuous exploration and excellence in the field of self-developed hinge technology, which also means that OPPO needs to achieve higher technical content and more energy investment.
In fact, OPPO first conducted the research on the folding screen in 2013, and opened the layout of the water drop form folding screen in 2015, and in 2018, OPPO already has the research layout of the current product application water drop hinge. In addition, in the 4 years from 2018 to 2021, OPPO has iterated 6 generations of folding screen solutions, including external folding, internal folding, up and down folding and other forms, although the folding screen products came a little later, but OPPO has never stopped exploring and investing in the folding screen.
▲ OPPO folding screen related patents
On OPPO Find N, OPPO brings the self-developed Seiko quasi-vertebral hinge, as the "black technology" of OPPO Find N to achieve the "zero-sense crease" experience, OPPO self-developed Seiko quasi-vertebral hinge is the most complex process on the market, the highest cost hinge, covering 125 patents, 400 + precision control, up to 0.01mm, the cost of a single hinge is as high as 800 yuan, the cost is more than 4 times that of ordinary hinges.
In the end, OPPO Find N achieved a maximum reduction of up to 80% of visual creases, seamless closure of the mobile phone bezel, but also effectively reduce dust entry, with OPPO and Samsung jointly developed 120Hz mirror screen, before and after 6 versions of the design scheme, and finally on the OPPO Find N for users to bring a "zero sense crease" experience.
In addition to creases, the "durability" of the folding screen is also a point of concern for users, for this reason, OPPO has set up a special reliability team within the product to verify the reliability of the product in multiple rounds within 4 months. In drop testing, oppo Find N can meet the durability standards of a bar press. In the bending test, whether at room temperature, low temperature or high temperature and high humidity, it can pass the 20w+ fold test. It is worth mentioning that OPPO Find N is also the first folding screen mobile phone to pass the folding worry-free Rheinland certification, which can still pass the folding test of 20w times in the extreme environment of -20 °C.
brief summary:
Whether it is the patent layout of the folding screen or the hinge self-developed technology, these are the best proof of OPPO's research and development strength, and also show the majority of consumers a OPPO that has made great achievements in technical reserves, but does not easily show the mountain dew. From early adopters to common use, just six words, this is not only the recognition of OPPO Find N, but also the infinite expectation of OPPO's next research and development innovation.