Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Oppo Find N3 Flip Review: Missed Oppo-tunity”.
Sponsored by delete me back at the start of this year, Oppo shook up the flip phone landscape with a little clamshell that packed a big standout. A cover display that, for the time was the biggest you could find on a flip. When I factored in the better than average camera and the huge battery the find N2 flip convinced me that Oppo was Finding its place in foldables, but that, as they say, was then scarcely 8 months after that phone launched in Europe. Oppo is back with a find N3 flip that adds another camera and a new side switch to a familiar similarly slippery chassis, but the one thing Oppo could have done the one thing I think it had to do to face down its 2023 competition. It hasn’t.
Let me just preface my complaints by saying this: I’m really glad Oppo is making flip phones because, on the whole, it’s really good at it recall my deep dive into the company’s hinge designs for the find N2 family that same engineering underpinning is in use on N3 And it gives us the same fat teardrop fold in the flexible display that keeps the crease to a minimum. Even though Samsung has finally transitioned to a form of wide water drop on its Galaxy flip 5 oppo’s implementation still produces a smoother surface, where the actual folding happens and for find n 3 Oppo redesigned the polarizer to make the screen easier to see with sunglasses and Reduced power consumption by about 20 % so that big battery can last even longer it’s the same change Samsung made to its foldables about two generations ago, and it’s a welcome one. Oppo also retained other stuff that worked on find end 2. The surface treatment on the spine, which translates light into a unique waveform like pattern: the fast 44 w super vuk charging and, of course, that big cover display, While others are larger. This one has an aspect ratio that more apps understand since it’s taller than it is wide. The problem that Google Maps or Uber has on a wide screen with that big UI bar taking up so much of the space, not an issue on this mini phone.
On a phone but Oppo missed an opportunity to leverage that perfectly shaped canvas when it released the finden 2 back in February. As I said then, which means that Oppo, if it wanted, could let you run the entire phone without opening it. Instead, what it does is, give you six widgets for your camera, your calendar timers voice, memo the forecast and earbud management, and if that sounds familiar yep, you get almost exactly the same thing on the much smaller cover screen of the Galaxy flip. So when Oppo invited me to the briefing for the find N3 flip, I thought look even if the hardware, where is virtually identical at least they’re, going to jump at the chance to fill that functionality Gap, especially considering the fact that Motorola and Samsung have leapfrogged them Right right wrong, the find N3 flip is still needlessly limited when closed. To be fair, you can do more than you could. A handful of titles have been whitelisted to run out here, but more than anything, it’s salt in the wound.
When, when I use Google Maps and see just how beautifully it scales, when I check in on Telegram and see how well the threads reformat for the smaller screen well, all it does is remind me that I don’t have another kind of threads out here, but I Do have X or that I do have Uber, but I don’t have lft and if I want to reply to a message without opening the phone well, I only have the keyboard in apps that Oppo has deemed worthy enough to code for oh bonus, annoyance as it Was on fend two flip: the hinge still won’t keep the phone propped up at as wide a range of angles as Samsung, which makes banana phoning annoying, as does the fact that the screen doesn’t reliably stay turned off when on a call, while in February these were A little more than a nerdy guys laments now that we’re in October. I would argue that running whatever you want on. The cover screen is table Stakes for foldables, with screens of a certain size, because Motorola and Samsung have normalized that in a very real and legally binding sense. If you want to know why that’s useful check out my Razer versus Galaxy flip comparison from the summer, oh and hey Oppo, where the game snacks is stack, bounce right anyway, Oppo told me.
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The hardware has an awful lot in common with its immediate predecessor, with a few notable exceptions. First is the new demens city 9200 processor, which is a more modern mediatech than the last Model, and I’ve had no complaints about either disclosure. I do host a podcast sponsored by mediatech, but that does not affect my editorial interpretation of processor speeds and I’m going to save the littlest exception for last, because honestly, I’ve already waited too long to talk about this Cosmos ring with Starlight track. Aka a raised camera bump with a knurled edge. Now I loved this look on oppo’s fex 6 Pro, but I’m not not sure it really translates to a flip phone. Maybe it’s the hosel blood branding, which is only right side up when you hold the thing open in portrait mode or maybe it’s the scale of the whole ring just barely fits on there. I don’t know, but Oppo did need the extra space, because this is the first flip phone to add a dedicated telephoto camera to its primary and ultrawide options. Don’T get too excited because it’s only 2x, a 47 mm equivalent focal length that I’ve long considered effectively useless.
For Zoom shots, I asked Oppo about this, and the company said a 3X lens would have required more thickness, which the design can’t accommodate or a smaller sensor, which Oppo didn’t want to compromise on. So the company chose to focus on using the telephoto camera for portrait. Shots personally, those aren’t my preferred picks to snap and all this space above the camera seems to beg for a 5x Periscope Zoom assembly. That would certainly be more of a crowd Placer, even if, if Oppo had to sacrifice battery capacity to achieve it, but the F end flip has the luxury of competing in a space where the cameras just aren’t that good.
I only tolerate shooting, with my Galaxy flip 5 and razor plus, and I usually Snapseed every photo I do take by contrast. Oppo’S Hassel blood partnership has resulted in attention to color science that I don’t know just resonates with me. I’Ve said this enough times that I don’t think I’m fooling myself or being taken in by the marketing. I almost always prefer the colors and contrast that Oppo can produce, even if in exchange, I need to put up with the occasional bit of HDR weirdness in the processing or the palm detection, not being as good as Samsung or the limitations on shooting. With video.
Like not being able to use that cover display to frame yourself up if you’re shooting in 4k, you get busted down to HD for that. Despite all that, if I could pluck this camera off this phone and drop it onto my Razer plus review unit, I’d be a much happier xan loving man, so why isn’t the finden 3 flip destined for daily driver them in my world? Well, look if this is your first flip phone you’ve got a right to be excited by everything it has to offer it’s not remotely a bad product, but I’ve used every flip phone. There is, and thanks to Motorola and Samsung, I know what it’s like to be able to use almost all of a phone’s features, whether it’s open or closed, believe it or not, that’s a real Boon when you’re out living your life and thanks to the razor I Know what it feels like to have a phone basically disappear into my pocket, because it’s so slim and ergonomic the find N3 flip is rumored to be cheaper. So maybe it’s no surprise that it just doesn’t rise to Motorola’s level of Hardware Elegance. Then the lack of wire wireless charging only reinforces that it’s not a device destined for the US. That brings me to that last bit of Hardware. I wanted to talk about which, thankfully lets me end on a high note. Yes, that is an alert slider on the side there, which lets you flip from ring to silent to vibration, with unmatched Simplicity. More than the convenience, though, is what this might imply for the phone’s future.
I can’t remember ever seeing an alert slider on an Android phone that didn’t come from oppo’s sister company OnePlus, a brand that regularly launches phones in the US, with OnePlus poised to launch a large format foldable in the states that reportedly based on a nearly identical Oppo Design called the finden 3. Maybe there’s hope that the finden 3 flip could come to these shores as well as a OnePlus flip. Perhaps, as you can see, it’s got a widget for the buds Pro all set up and ready to go.
If it does, my wish list would include some better optimized software that doesn’t bother me about the battery as often a surface treatment that doesn’t send the thing careening off as many countertops, and a cover display that doesn’t randomly turn on in my pocket. As often and more importantly, actually keeps up with the competition and resists the urge to sit me at the Kids Table, otherwise I think the find N3 flip will persist as an admirable but confusing missed opportunity yeah. I know that one’s a groaner – I came up with it all on my own, but a quick Google shows me that the earliest usage of that loow hanging fruit of a joke comes from Lance over a tech radar, so send all your bouquet and brick bats to Him please, this video was produced following several weeks with a pre-production find n 3 flip review sample provided by Oppo, but, as always, the manufacturer had no early preview of this review and no editorial input or copy approval rights whatsoever.
Nor did it provide compensation for this review folks, there are more foldables to come very soon subscribe and follow me on YouTube and Instagram at the mrmobile, and I’m also on threads at Captain 2 phones to keep up between videos until next time from Michael Fisher. Thanks for watching and stay mobile, my friends so when Oppo invited me to the brief for the find end3 flip, that’s not it so when Oppo invited me to The Briefing, especially since Motorola and Samsung have basically leaped frog them and fun leaped frog them! That’S how we say that word: this is the winner. Here we come since Motorola and Samsung have basically leaped frog them son of a Leap, Frog leap, leap, frogged, Le frogged, damn it all right, Lea frogged them here it is all the glamour of New York City.
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