Review | OnePlus Open/Oppo Find N3: the best foldable phone you can buy outside China – light, slim, with innovative software. Look out, Samsung and Google
- Chinese brand Oppo’s Find N3 foldable phone is being sold internationally as the OnePlus Open. Lighter and slimmer than rivals, its hardware is best in class
- With native Google app support and a build, screen, camera and battery superior to the Samsung Z Fold 5, the OnePlus Open will be an eye-opener outside China
Chinese smartphone brand Oppo has launched the third edition of its Find N foldable phone and, like the first two models, it features hardware that outshines devices from market leader Samsung and is arguably best in class.
What makes this release noteworthy, and also a bit confusing, is Oppo’s decision to launch the device globally – including in the United States, a market most Chinese phones makers have stayed away from – and under a different name.
In China and throughout most of Asia, the new handset is called the Oppo Find N3; but in the US, India, and western Europe, it is called the OnePlus Open (Oppo and OnePlus are owned by the same parent company, BBK Electronics).
My unit is officially the OnePlus version, and will be referred to as such in this review, but it is identical to the Find N3 except for slightly different colour options.
Hardware and design
