Oppo’s upcoming Find N5 foldable phone is barely thicker than its own USB-C port when unfurled, according to photos released by the company. The flagship, which we’re expecting to be re-branded as the OnePlus Open 2 for its US release, will also feature best-in-class resistance to water.

Oppo has been steadily teasing the Find N5 on Chinese social network Weibo for the past week. Find series product manager Zhou Yibao has now shared photos that highlight its size, adding that the obstacle to making it any thinner is now “the limit of the charging port.”

The photos follow a video from last week, in which Zhou compares a hidden Find N5 to a series of everyday objects, demonstrating that it’s comparable in thickness to two Chinese yuan coins, a stack of four ID cards, or exactly 39 sticky notes.

The company claims the Find N5 is the thinnest foldable yet. That title is currently held by the Honor Magic V3, which is 4.35mm thick when open, meaning the Find N5 must be close to 4mm. That explains why it looks about half the size of the 8.25mm iPhone 16 Pro Max it’s shown next to in the photos. For reference, a USB-C port is 2.6mm at minimum.

In a separate post, Zhou teased the phone’s waterproofing, boasting that it’s IPX9-rated. That means it currently has no official dust protection (the ‘X’), but has been tested to withstand high-temperature and high-pressure jets of water. It’s also rated IPX8 for submersion in water, and IPX6 for lower temperature water jets. This month’s OnePlus 13 is IP69-rated, with dust protection as well.

Oppo’s previous foldable, the Find N3 (the N4 was skipped because of the number’s association with death in China), eventually launched in the West as the OnePlus Open. If the same happens again, it should pose some serious competition for Samsung and Google’s current generation of foldables. We’ll find out more when the Find N5 launches in China next month.



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One of the chief complaints among early foldables has been how thick the hardware is, and it’s been a major focus for manufacturers. With new images of the upcoming Oppo Find N5 and OnePlus Open 2, new records are being teased, and it reveals a device that’s truly jaw-droppingly thin.

It’s been rumored for some time now that the OnePlus Open 2, based on the Oppo Find N5, will be incredibly thin. Recently, Pete Lau said it would be the “world’s thinnest” book-style foldable, and now we’re getting a first look at the hardware.

New images shared on Weibo show off the Oppo Find N5, the device that will serve as the base for the OnePlus Open 2. The images show off a foldable that’s half the thickness of an iPhone, and just the thickness of four stacked credit cards or two stacked quarters. That’s when unfolded, at least. Still, that puts the device at likely 3.5-4mm, which undercuts the Honor Magic V3’s 4.35mm profile when opened up.

Essentially, the device is just barely thicker than the USB-C port. In the post (translated), Oppo’s Zhou Yibao says that the charging port is currently the limit for how thin the device can be.

Thin is not the limit of Find N5, but the limit of the charging port

The comparisons are truly wild to see.

Despite that thin profile, it’s said that the device will have a battery around 20% larger than the Oppo Find N3, as we’ve heard in previous leaks.

The post also reiterates that the device will be launching in February, as rumored, and it seems likely that the OnePlus Open 2 will follow not too far behind. It seems likely that Mobile World Congress, set to take place during the first week of March, could serve as a launch for the device.

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