OPPO Find N5 Ultimate Review: Impossibly Thin, Impossibly Good

The OPPO Find N5 fixes everything wrong with foldables.

In 2023, OPPO released the Find N3 (also known as the OnePlus Open in some markets), which was an incredible foldable. As someone that reviews dozens of phones every year, its rare that I use a phone over a year after it launched. But that was the case with the Find N3. In fact, I was using it up until the Galaxy S25 Ultra launched in January. So needless to say, I’ve been waiting for the successor for quite some time. And I have to say, I have not been disappointed.

OPPO did the unthinkable with the Find N5, making it even thinner than the Magic V3, which was already the world’s thinnest foldable. You’re probably thinking “oh its super thin, so it must have a small battery”. Nope, OPPO also crammed a 5,600mAh capacity battery inside, up from the 4,805mAh in Find N3. That’s thanks to OPPO’s Silicon-Carbon battery tech, which is truly incredible.

So is the OPPO Find N5 worth picking up? Let’s find out in our full review. While writing this review, we did not know pricing for the Find N5, so that is not factored in here.

OPPO Find N5 Review: Design and Build Quality

OPPO took the design of the Find N3 and iterated on it. It is now larger, with the largest internal display on a book-style foldable. It also has a thinner camera bump and a slightly taller outer display. It’s now 20.7:9 versus the 20:9 on Find N3. Of course, they also slimmed it down quite a bit. OPPO shaved almost three millimeters off of the thickness when folded, and 1.6mm when unfolded. That’s quite the jump, though keep in mind that the Find N3 did launch in 2023, so this is nearly two generations newer.

The Find N5 is so thin that there is barely any space around the USB-C port. Honestly, I think if it wasn’t for the USB-C port, OPPO might have made it even thinner. It’s already thinner than Apple’s thinnest product ever – the OLED iPad Pro which is 5.1mm.

OPPO also slimmed down the camera bump this time around, which has been a trend for the company recently. The Find X8 series also had a pretty slimmed down camera bump, dropping about 40%. That is the case here with the Find N5, and that’s thanks to each sensor being fully customized for this phone. It’s great to see, that even though I did really like the camera bump on the Find N3, it made it easier to hold onto.

The thing I was most worried about with the Find N5 before receiving it, was how comfortable would it be to hold? I reviewed the Magic V3, which was the old world’s thinnest foldable, and it was very uncomfortable to hold unfolded. However, the vegan leather case that was included in the box did make it much more comfortable. That’s not the case with Find N5. And I attribute that to the flat sides and flat back. You see the Magic V3 has curved sides, and the back is also slightly curved. And at that thinness, it does make it uncomfortable to hold for long periods of time.

OPPO also eliminated a good bit of the bezel on the front of the Find N5. Part of this comes down the hinge being slimmer this time around. The bezel also matches the frame this time, instead of the frame being a gunmetal color on the Find N3, making it stand out more.

If you’ve ever used an OPPO phone, particularly a flagship, then you know what to expect from the build quality. This is a very well-built phone, that is basically built like a tank but still looks stunning. It’s just too bad that OnePlus is not launching it in the US.

OPPO Find N5 Review: Display

Both displays are larger this year, for the Find N5. The outer display is a 6.62-inch OLED 120Hz display that has an aspect ratio of 20.7:9. It gets up to 1600 nits of outdoor brightness and 2,450 nits of peak brightness. The internal display is 8.12-inches, also OLED 120Hz, and 1400 nits of outdoor brightness, 2100 nits peak brightness.

To put it simply, these displays look incredible. Both are OLED with HDR10+ and Dolby Vision support. So whether you’re watching content on the outer display or the internal display, you’re going to enjoy the experience. It is winter here, so there’s not a lot of sunlight, however we did just get a ton of snow, so whatever light we have bounces off the snow making it much brighter. And I’m happy to report, zero issues seeing either display outside in that pretty extreme brightness.

Those that are flicker sensitive, OPPO says the PWM rate is 2160Hz on the Find N5, which is quite good. OPPO is also using nanocrystal glass on the outer display which is 20% stronger when compared to the Find N3. With an anti-shock film on the inner display which is about 70% stronger. I can attest to the screens both being stronger, so far. On my OnePlus Open, I had a pretty deep scratch on the cover display (I’m still not sure where it came from, a year later). So far, no scratches at all on either Find N5 display. Hopefully it stays that way.

Now let’s talk about that crease. OPPO teased ahead of the launch that there was essentially no crease on the Find N5. It is very hard to find. While I’ve been using the phone, I’ve tried to look for the crease, and it’s almost impossible to see, unless the screen is off. Many have wondered how this will hold up after a year, but I don’t think it’ll change much, since the OnePlus Open I’ve used for 16 months looks virtually the same as day one.

OPPO was able to eliminate the crease by making it 10% narrower and 50% shallower. It also made the under-screen supporting structure flatter, so there’s less room for the screen to move when it is folded. It truly is night and day difference when you compare it to something like the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold.

OPPO Find N5 Review: Performance

One aspect of the Find N5 I was skeptical of, was the new 7-core Snapdragon 8 Elite. This is a version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite that Qualcomm made specifically for foldable devices, since they generally have less internal space, and ditch the vapor chamber for a thinner body. This processor has two prime cores and 5 performance cores, so it’s losing out on one performance core compared to the Galaxy S25 Ultra or OnePlus 13. And I haven’t noticed a difference in day-to-day performance. We did notice some small differences in benchmarks, which we’ll get to in a minute.

I’ve been pretty impressed with the performance on the Find N5, of course, it does have 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Which is the only RAM and storage variant offered outside of China. It’s likely that OPPO has additional variants in China (as the purple color is a China exclusive too). With how smooth ColorOS has become since merging with Oxygen OS, there are zero complaints about performance here.

To make the Find N5 this thin, OPPO did need to cut some corners. Unfortunately, one of those corners was the speakers. The Find N3 had three speakers inside, while the Find N5 only has two. And you can tell the difference. Playing them side-by-side, the Find N3 sounds fuller, with deeper bass, and it also sounds louder at max volume. Now that’s not to say that the Find N5 speakers are bad, they are quite good. I had no complaints with them until I put them next to the Find N3. So I think most people will be perfectly fine with the sound from these speakers.

Benchmarks

For benchmarking every device that we review, we run a slew of benchmarks, testing different aspects of the phone. This includes Geekbench 6, AnTuTu, and 3D Mark Wildlife Extreme Stress Test (which we will be replacing soon).

First up is Geekbench 6. For those unaware, Geekbench is a really good benchmark to test out the single-core and multi-core CPU and the GPU. The OPPO Find N5, it scored 2916 in single-core and 8138 in multi-core, with a GPU score of 17,861. For these benchmarks, we’re comparing it to the OnePlus Open/Find N3, Galaxy S25 Ultra and Pixel 9 Pro Fold. We’re throwing the Galaxy S25 Ultra in here, since it also runs the Snapdragon 8 Elite, however it is overclocked and has all 8 cores.

On single-core, we’re noticing about a 7% decrease from the Galaxy S25 Ultra, and about 20% decrease on the multi-core score. These are still quite good scores, and a huge upgrade over the OnePlus Open, and even Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered foldable. The OnePlus Open, which uses a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, scored 1089 and 4098 in this test, respectively. And those numbers I got in testing it just this week.

Next up is 3D Mark Wildlife Extreme Stress Test. This test is geared towards pushing the phone to its absolute limit and seeing how well it is able to hold the load. Essentially, what happens with this test is that it runs a 60-second benchmark 20 times, getting a score on each loop, and then providing us with a stability score. Typically phones either score lower with a very high stability percentage, or score high with stability around 50%.

For the OPPO Find N5, it had a Best Loop score of 5,421, Lowest Loop of 3,256 and a stability of 60.5%. The stability is similar to the OnePlus Open/Find N3, with the scores being a tad lower than the Galaxy S25 Ultra. So not a bad showing at all here.

Another test we run is a video exporting test. With Capcut, we load up the same 60-second video and export it at 1080p60. We then are able to time how long it takes to export, which these phones have gotten incredibly fast at doing this over the last year or so. But the OPPO Find N5 did this in 6.45 seconds. That’s more than 10 seconds faster than OnePlus Open, 6 seconds faster than Pixel 9 Pro Fold, but less than a second slower than the Galaxy S25 Ultra.

Finally, AnTuTu. This is a newer test that we’ve decided to incorporate into our reviews. AnTuTu is able to test just about every aspect of your phone, providing you with a score in the millions.

OPPO Find N5 Review: Battery Life and Charging

Battery life is phenomenal. Now this should surprise no one, considering the Find N3 did have such great battery life for a foldable. It already raised the bar, two years ago. Now, the Find N5 boasts a 775mAh capacity larger battery – or about 15% larger – and is also powering brighter displays. So we were expecting big numbers when it comes to battery life, and you’ll see more about those numbers in our battery life test.

However, in day-to-day usage, we’ve been quite impressed with the Find N5. I’ve been able to get well over 7 hours of screen on time, per charge. And that was over longer than 24 hours, which is mighty impressive. That is actually on par with some slab phones. Never mind the fact that this phone is incredibly thin, with a big and beautiful 8.12-inch inner display which I used most of the time.

I also took it with me (obviously) to Singapore for the OPPO Find N5 launch event, and it performed quite well during a very long travel day with nearly 24 hours of flying.

When it comes to charging, no complaints here. Well, mostly no complaints. It does charge very quickly, though I do typically charge my phones overnight, so the speed doesn’t bother me all that much. But we’re looking at 80W wired charging and 50W wireless charging. My main complaint here is that the 50W wireless charging only works with OPPO or OnePlus’ own chargers, so that speed really means nothing to me since that charger is not included in the box. Now, I do have a 50W AirVOOC wireless charger that OnePlus gave out with the OnePlus 13 in December, so I have used it, but I don’t think it’ll be a feature that gets used often at this speed. Most people will just use it with a MagSafe charger.

This is not a Qi2 phone, similar to the OnePlus 13 and OPPO Find X8 series. Instead of opting for supporting Qi2, OPPO believes that the experience is better with their 50W wireless charger. And yes, the OnePlus wireless charger does work with the Find N5. However, OPPO is selling cases with MagSafe support for the Find N5.

OPPO provided me with one of those cases here in Singapore. It’s actually a really nice-looking case with a good amount of texture. I almost prefer this over the case that is in the box. However, it is a bit thicker, which is to be expected, considering it does have the magnets inside. It essentially looks like a mix of carbon fiber and vegan leather. One thing to note, however, due to the way the Find N5 is built, the wireless charging coil is lower on the phone, so the battery pack is going to hang off the bottom of the phone. It’ll take some getting used to, but at least you can use your favorite MagSafe accessories with this phone.

Benchmarks

For benchmarking the battery life of phones, we charge the phone to 100%, set the brightness to as close to 200 units as possible, and then play a YouTube video until it dies. The OPPO Find N5 had the longest time of any foldable in this test, and we just redid these tests this week, as we did change the way we do it. Find N5 had a time of 20 hours and 17 minutes. That’s less than two hours shorter than the Galaxy S25 Ultra. It’s also a solid 5 hours longer than OnePlus Open, and two hours longer than Pixel 9 Pro Fold.

Of course, this is what you would expect from a 5,600mAh capacity battery in a foldable. So it’s good to see that the Find N5 is as efficient as it should be.

Then onto charging, after we run the battery life test, we plug in the phone into the charger that is included in the box or one that can max out the charging speed. OPPO does include a 80W charger in the box using its SuperVOOC charging standard. With this charging test, we were able to achieve a time of 48 minutes and 39 seconds for 2% to 100%. That’s right around the time that OPPO quoted to us in our briefing of 47 minutes for 0-100%.

OPPO Find N5 Review: Software

The company is launching the Find N5 with ColorOS 15.0.1, so it is slightly newer than what the Find X8 series launched with late last year. OPPO has also improved the multi-tasking and Boundless View a bit, with the Find N5. Which is by far my favorite feature for a foldable. OPPO has made it more intuitive and user-friendly, making it easier to jump into Boundless View, and open apps in split-view. Now, you can tap on the three dots icon at the top of any app, to open in split view, or start up Boundless View. It is a very small tweak, but it honestly makes a huge difference compared to its predecessor.

OPPO has also gotten smarter with Boundless View. So if you are switching between two apps a few times, you will get a prompt asking if you want to enable split-screen, instead of bouncing between both apps repeatedly. This has been very helpful when checking data before posting it on X or other social networks.

Of course, there’s loads of AI features included in the Find N5. Like AI Document, which is able to quickly translate, summarize or refine your content in OPPO’s document app. There’s also AI Call Summary, which can transcribe and summarize audio, including your phone calls. The AI feature that I’ve used quite a bit this week traveling to Singapore is the new translate app. It has been redesigned for foldables, so you can use both screens in FlexForm Mode to communicate with those that speak different languages than you.

Finally, my favorite software feature on the Find N5 is actually O+ Connect. This is currently available in beta, but it allows you to easily move files back and forth to your Mac and Find N5. You’re able to move photos and videos from your Mac to your Find N5, or vice versa, pretty quickly. OPPO says you can move 100 photos from Find N5 to your Mac in just 8 seconds. You can also have your Find N5 automatically sync photos and videos to your Mac, like the iPhone does with the Photos app.

But that’s not all for the Mac. OPPO has also included Remote Mac Control with O+ Connect. I have to say, this is incredible cool to be able to do on a foldable, and it was super easy to get set up. Though, this is slightly limited as you do need to be on the same WiFi network, so you can’t control it from another location. But when you need to quickly check something on your computer, this is available to do just that.

As a Mac user, these features are incredible, and I truly hope these roll out to other OPPO and OnePlus devices. It’s also going to make it harder to stick with my iPhone. Good job OPPO, excited to see what they do with O+ Connect in the future.

Another corner that OPPO had to cut with the Find N5 to make it so thin, was the cameras. Each of the cameras on the Find N5 are customized, making them thinner than ever. This also slims down the camera bump quite a bit. Something we also saw on the Find X8 and X8 Pro late last year.

So, the Find N5 sports a 50-megapixel main sensor which is the Sony LYT-700. It also has a 50-megapixel 3x telephoto lens, and a 8-megapixel ultrawide. With two 8-megapixel cameras on each display. That seems like a pretty capable camera setup, aside from the ultrawide sensor, right? Well, if you look further into the details, you’ll find out that the main sensor is not only smaller, the aperture is also not as wide. The telephoto is also smaller with a smaller aperture, and the ultrawide is honestly fine, it did drop from 48 megapixels down to 8. However, the saving grace for the ultrawide is that macro is done on the telephoto lens this year.

With these numbers, I left OPPO’s briefing thinking this might be a major downgrade for the camera on the Find N5, compared to Find N3. And, I was partly wrong. Thanks to some of OPPO’s new technology it debuted in the Find X8 series last year, the Find N5 actually performs quite well and might be one of the best camera systems on a foldable. This includes Lightning Snap. This feature lets you hold the shutter button and take burst shots of 7 frames per second, which OPPO claims rivals DSLRs. I’d have to say they are correct. Because of the very low shutter lag, it does take very crisp shots, even when doing burst shots. I’ve tested it out side-by-side with the Find X8 Pro which does have zero shutter lag, and it’s close, but not quite there. It’s about as fast as the OnePlus 13’s shutter.

OPPO also brought over their AI Telescope Zoom feature. This isn’t a feature that users will see either, but it uses AI to improve digital zoom, and it works incredibly well. There is a 50-megapixel 3x sensor on board, which OPPO is able to sensor-crop and get a 6x optical zoom. It provides for some great shots past 6x, however it does really start to fall apart past 10x. Of course, this all depends on the lighting. Outside, you can definitely go past 10x and get some great shots, but indoors with less-than-ideal lighting, you might not even want to use 10x.

Below, you’ll see a range of shots from 1.5x, 10x, 30x, 60x and 120x. The pictures are still quite usable at 10x, but they do start to fall apart past that. They do look pretty good at 30x, however, they are a tad “water painty”. I’d say this is pretty impressive, considering OPPO is working with a 3x telephoto lens here, and not a 5x like the Galaxy S25 Ultra.

Perhaps my favorite feature on the Find N5, and one of the reasons I’ve been so excited for this phone, is Tele-macro photography. OPPO is using the telephoto lens for macro photography which is brilliant. You see, most phones use ultrawide for macro photography, which means to get up close, you need to be very close. Often times blocking the light source, makes it tougher to get a good macro shot. With tele-macro, that issue is solved, since this is a 3x telephoto lens, you can be much further away. The focusing distance here is 15cm or just under 6 inches, which is great for taking macro pictures. Below you can see a number of macro shots from the Find N5, they truly are stunning.

Overall, the camera is quite good, though I was expecting more of an upgrade, after waiting almost two years for a successor. Is till quite like the OnePlus Open/Find N3 camera, and think it’s probably the best on a foldable, still. My main takeaway here is that this is a great camera for a foldable. If this were a slab phone, it would be just a good camera. Here are a bunch more photos taken with the OPPO Find N5, with zero edits.

Finally, you probably want to know how the Find N5 stacks up to the Find N3’s cameras. So below, we have some side-by-side comparisons between the two. I actually have the OnePlus Open, but as we all know, the Open is the exact same phone as the OPPO Find N3, just with a different logo on the back.

There’s a huge difference in macro photography between the two, as you would expect. The Find N5 is not only brighter but also offers better details. Though, I’ve found portrait mode for pets to be better on the Find N3, but better on humans on Find N5. Hopefully that changes with a software update. Overall, pictures from the Find N5 do look brighter. That could come down to the new ISP on the Snapdragon 8 Elite (don’t forget, it is two generations newer), new algorithms that OPPO is using, and also the sensors. I’d say, the Find N5 is a pretty good successor to the Find N3, though I do wish they had kept those larger sensors from the Find N3.

Should you buy the OPPO Find N5?

I’ve been waiting on the OPPO Find N5 for over a year, so bottom line, did it deliver? The phone itself did deliver. However, OnePlus dropped the ball by not picking up the Find N5 and selling it as the Open 2. They did this with the Find N3, so we all were expecting the same thing this time around. Which puts a pretty sour taste in a lot of people’s mouths.

However, the Find N5 itself is an incredible leap forward for a phone that was already one of the best on the market and won many awards. Unfortunately, it won’t be coming to the US, so if you’re like me and are in the US, you might need to import it. I’ve been using it on Google Fi (T-Mobile) and US Mobile (AT&T) and have had no issues for the past couple of weeks.

You should buy the OPPO Find N5 if:

• You want a foldable that feels like a regular phone.
• You want an incredible display with no crease.
• You want the true pinnacle of foldable phones.

You should not buy the OPPO Find N5 if:

• You live in the US (do your homework first).
• You don’t want a foldable.