Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “New OnePlus Folding Phone Exclusive First Look!”.
This is an exclusive guys. This is exciting inside this package. Right here is the OnePlus folding phone. This is an incredibly early copy of the device, but it’s getting close to finished and here on this channel we’re going to get our closest look yet at oneplus’s.
First folding phone and then we’re actually going to hear the inspiration behind it. It’S uh it’s great to see you again. I understand that you’ve now taken on a new role or sort of a combination of roles, you’ve transitioned into overseeing product for both Oppo and OnePlus.
Now, how has that been for you and uh? What are the challenges of overseeing both Brands? Yeah Lou, now I’m overseeing both the product from Oppo and OnePlus, and the business is getting more complicated, but, however, the business will evolve. We always focus on creating great products and I’m the top product manager in the company, so we always start from the user needs and we want to create a burdenless design and create a fast and smooth experience that is intuitive. Now, after the merging the RND capability of the company is getting stronger, we have launched many industry-leading technology, apologies and we are bringing products that have created good reputation among consumers.
For example, we have launched two generations of foldable under the Oppo brand and we have also launched OnePlus 11, which has also received wide acclaims. So I’ve been a user of foldables for a while now, I’m noticing now that you’re seeing more refinement. As far as the sort of mechanical components of these foldable devices now in front of me, obviously I’ve got an early look at the new OnePlus foldable and I’m curious about what’s different about this particular hinge design.
Actually, you mentioned one key thing compared to the traditional slab style form factor, foldables is changing in terms of the form factor, and the key thing behind this form factor is the hinge. Now we hold over 600 patents related to the hinge design of the foldable and, if you’ve tried the um first generation find and foldable two years ago. You might recall that when you close the phone, there is no Gap in between.
It is a gapless state and behind that is the hinge, and actually, when you close the phone, it’s not only just gapless, you can even put a piece of paper in between and still hold the phone. The phone won’t drop. The hinge is a key component behind the experience of the foldable phone, because not only does the hinge occupies a lot of room in terms of the component’s stacking, it will also affect the health or the life cycle of the film. Now, on the hinge that we use for the OnePlus foldable, we hold 35 patterns related to the hinge. We have improved the materials and try to reduce this the size and the weight and increase the strength of the hinge now compared to the hinge that we use on the oprofide N2.
The hinge on the OnePlus foldable has 31 components fewer in the hinge. This helps with the reduction of the weight. We have also improved the material design so that the strength is better, but we still manage to reduce the size of the hinge. Actually, this hinge is 37 smaller compared to the hinge of defined N2 yeah I’m.
This is my first time actually inspecting the device. This is an early sample that I’m looking at here, so we can’t show you absolutely everything you can see. There’S some elements that are covered, but this has to be the tightest hinge that I’ve looked at as far as the gap or lack of a gap, and it creates something. That’S quite slim when it’s in its closed position here so Pete. How do you think that this product is going to compete against other Flagship devices in the market? How do you think that this new OnePlus folding device will Stack Up? Oneplus is not the first camera to the race, but once we decided to enter this race we must be bringing the best phone to this race and I would say that the OnePlus foldable phone is the best folding film. You can get right now.
It’S your dream! Phone wow now Lou, if you think of the user’s need for a photo bill, they want a display, that’s as big as possible, but when they hold the phone in your hand, they hope that it’s as small and convenient as possible, that is the user, need a Foldable phone should not just offer a large screen experience, you should also have a light and slim design, it should have a powerful camera and it should deliver a fast and smooth experience. It is only when we achieve a right balance in all these areas. Can we call it a flagship, foldable fan? Oneplus has gained strong regulation in the fast and smooth experience, so rest assured that this experience will also be replicated to outfold in order to deliver a better large screen experience for the users. We are also working closely with Google to improve the app adaptation so that users can really feel that the app experience is different, different on a large screen, one more thing: the alert slider, which has gained good reputation among the OnePlus users. It’S also available on this voting firm yeah. I noticed that actually it’s got that nice textured feel to it.
So you don’t even have to look at the device to recognize and it’s in a nice location here easily reachable. The question that people are going to have is: is this product going to be identical to an opal folding device? How do you see the difference between those two Brands and how unique will this OnePlus folding phone be compared to products offered under the opal brand? This voting zone is jointly developed by the Oppo team and the OnePlus team, because we want to create a Synergy and bring the best of the two teams together, because both teams has accumulated strong experience. This folding phone will have a different go to market strategy in different regions, because there is only one. The best voting phone now and Oppo team has accumulated strong experience in the foldable design and in the camera Technologies.
While OnePlus is famous for the fast and smooth experience, the burdenless design and the Peak Performance of the hardware, so we decided to bring the best of these two teams together and create this voting well. And we will use a different go to market strategy in different regions, so that more users will be able to have their hands on on this device all right now, the the last thing I’m wondering there is a customer who’s, also interested in a flip style device. In a clamshell, that’s going to actually unfold the other way and create an even more portable folding device. So does OnePlus have any plans to add a device like that how to use this of the first generation folding phone of OnePlus are more like the business Elites and Technology it leads. They are people work in finance, they are Engineers, doctors, Etc. They are more or less the users of the OnePlus slab style flagships, but the target users of the flip phones. They are not quite matched so. That is why, at this stage, we don’t have the plan to launch a flip film, listen Pete! It’S been great to have access to this conversation, to get a little bit more insight into the development process and also to sort of get a slightly better idea of how this strategy is working.
There’S some serious engineering – that’s that’s gone into this and you have like the tightest seal that I’ve seen yeah, because what we’re after is actually delivering the best foldable firm for the users. It should not be something that settles I mean. Obviously we have the recent launch.
Samsung Z, fold five and I mean I think, to the average person they’re going to see some similarities here or where do you see the difference here and what do you think the advantages are for the OnePlus folding phone she’s open. So there you have it. That is our best look yet at the OnePlus folding phone, another option in the folding phone space and a slightly different, take I’m very excited to see the retail version of this. The final version of this and, of course, I’ll, be showing it to you here on the channel very soon foreign .