Pictured: The Oppo Find N5 is my favorite foldable of all time. | Image by PhoneArena
It's wide foldable season as most key players on the market are readying themselves to release wide, wallet-style foldables, and it seems that right after Samsung and Apple, it might be Oppo's turn to do so.
Popular industry insided Digital Chat Station that hails from Weibo claims that Oppo is developing a new wide-screen foldable phone akin to the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8 and iPhone Ultra, which will be shorter but wider than a regular book-style foldable.
Of course, Oppo working on such a device is a kneejerk reaction to its major rivals doing the same
The device will be powered by a proper flagship chipset, Qualcomm's yet unofficial Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 rolling under the SM8950 model number. The phone will feature an AI accelerator, likely a neural engine co-processor to process heavy on-device LLM tasks.
Finally, we have a suggested battery capacity of roughly 6,500 mAh, and as I can't imagine Oppo would release a thick foldable, the battery will most certainly be a silicon-carbon one. Right now, these are the only ones to combine high capacity with a thin size.
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The device will likely release in Q1 2027, as Digital Chat Station has it.
Not much info on the rest of the specs
Sadly, no other probable features of the device are revealed. We don't know any display sizes, physical dimensions, or camera details, but given Oppo's proficiency in releasing excellent foldables, the latter would possibly be on the cutting edge of foldable technology, like the Find N5 and Find N6.
What is your preferred foldable style?
And if we have to speculate about the name, it might very well be Oppo Find N7, though the change in the form factor might be worthy of a new naming scheme.
Not the first Oppo wide-style foldable
This upcoming wide-style foldable wouldn't be the first Oppo device of the type. The company's first foldables, like the N1 and the N2, were mostly squarish in terms of aspect ratio, so Oppo has toyed with the idea of a slightly wider foldable before.
The Oppo Find N2 was wider than most conventional foldables at its time. | Image by Oppo
That's the opposite of what Samsung did, for example: the South Korean giant's first foldables were tall and narrow. The iPhone Ultra, as we know, will be wider and short when unfolded, making it ideal for consuming media, multitasking, and other wide-screen content like gaming, probably.
Wide foldables boast a lot of potential
I have to admit that while I absolutely love the book-style foldable form factor, I'm yet to be convinced that wide, wallet-style foldables will easily "click" with me.
I can't wait to see how these would fare when watching TV shows or movies, as well as reading on the go, I can only presume the experience could be slightly better than a regular foldable, but until I've handled one, I can't vouch for the overall utility and ease of use.
It would make sense that a wider foldable would be better suited to accommodate media consumption, gaming, and browsing the web as the majority of content is still tailored for wider screens. Aside from the trendy reels, shorts, and TikTok videos, pretty much all other content is better experienced on a wider, not taller screen.
With that in mind, regular foldables that default to a squarish aspect ratio when unfolded are often weird and unoptimized with many apps and certain use cases, and despite all software optimizations manufacturers undertake, the experience is often less than ideal.
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