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On the second day of OPPO Future Technology Conference 2022 (OPPO INNO DAY 2022), the flagship folding new product of Find N2 series was officially launched. this Find N2 series folding screen phone includes two models, one is OPPO Find N's iterative Find N2, and the other is OPPO's first small folding Find N2 Flip.

OPPO officially warmed up before the two products were released. With regard to Find N2, Liu Zuohu mentioned in his open letter that Find N2 will adopt innovative materials and reconstruct key structures, bringing a major breakthrough in the weight of the folding screen, as well as a comprehensive upgrade of screen, image, performance and hover experience, bringing a "experience beyond straight phones."

Liu Zuohu also stressed that the Find N2 series is not a simple upgrade iteration, but a full range of technology leadership and experience innovation.

So what is the experience of the OPPO Find N2 series? CTOnews.com also made a detailed review of the two new products. This article first carries on the picture and text evaluation around OPPO Find N2.

First, when the designer sees OPPO Find N2 at first glance, he can clearly feel that it is more refined. Compared with the previous generation, the overall appearance and shape of OPPO Find N2 has not changed much, but it is more "meticulous" in the details, such as the round middle frame has become the current straight edge design, there are highlight chamfers on both sides of the middle frame, and there is also a highlight chamfer around the camera module, these small chamfers are looming in the light, showing an excellent metal texture, so that the product has a bit more beauty of the business atmosphere.

Of course, the change in OPPO Find N2 is much more than that.

In the evaluation of the previous generation of OPPO Find N, CTOnews.com mentioned that the product would have an obvious falling feel after folding. Although the weight of 275g was not heavy at that time, it was the size of a small screen machine after folding, which would make the weight "concentrated" and lead to falling hands, which is a flaw in the ointment.

This time OPPO Find N2 solved the problem once and for all. Thanks to the reconstruction of innovative materials and key structural components, OPPO Find N2 has lost a lot of weight, and when you get it, you can feel its real charm-just 233g (leather version).

This is the lightest horizontal folding phone in the industry, and when you hold it, you may even ignore that it is a folding screen phone.

For comparison, the weight of the iPhone 14 Pro Max is 240g oppo Find N2, which is within the weight range of the current flagship aircraft, which I think is very exciting.

In terms of color matching, Find N2 provides cloud white, pine green and plain black (plain skin) three versions, in which cloud white and pine green are AG glass, and the weight is the plain black color matching obtained by 237g CTOnews.com, using plain skin technology, litchi texture, with metal frame and image module, appears to be very high-end, business.

Let's take a look at the detailed design. The exposed part of the hinge has made a flat design this time, which is still a metal sandblasting process, with the word "FIND N" printed on it.

There is only one microphone opening at the top of the fuselage.

The side of the fuselage is the fingerprint identification power two-in-one button, the top is the volume key, the previous generation Find N volume and power key is located on the left and right middle box, so folding will inevitably lead to mistouch problems. This time Find N2 solved this problem, high praise. However, the position of the volume key is slightly higher, and the beginner may have to apply for a period of time.

At the bottom are speakers, USB Type-C ports, SIM card slots, and microphones.

OPPO Find N2 continues the stereo dual speaker design and supports Dolby panoramic sound with excellent sound quality, especially at pitch, turning on full volume and even the illusion of small speakers. However, the two speakers are still at the bottom of the fuselage, so it is a bit of a disadvantage that the sound still comes from the same direction during use.

Simple summary of appearance--

You can always believe in OPPO's aesthetic.

In terms of design alone, the author will still give OPPO Find N2 a near-full rating.

Compared with the previous generation of Find N, the overall shape of OPPO Find N2 is not large, but it presents a different kind of refinement:

The previous generation is more smart on the basis of refinement, while Find N2 is more atmospheric and high-end on the basis of refinement.

I have to say, OPPO Find N2 is still a temperament player, "temperament" is very difficult to capture with the camera, so the same sentence-- to touch the real machine, you will know.

Second, in terms of screen, OPPO Find N2 has made a major upgrade this time. First of all, the inner and outer screens are made of E6 material, are 120Hz high brushes, and all support adaptive ambient color.

The last generation of OPPO Find N outer screen only the poor 60Hz find N2 completely solved this problem, and achieved the top display effect. As far as experience is concerned, there is no sense of fragmentation in the inner and outer screen of OPPO Find N2 this time.

In terms of specific parameters, the inner screen has a resolution of 1792 × 1920, 100% P3 color gamut coverage, JNCD ≈ 0.5, area excitation luminance 1550N, and the outer screen 2120 × 1080 resolution, 100% P3 color gamut coverage, JNCD ≈ 0.5, area excitation luminance 1350nit.

In screen color mode, Find N2 provides a vivid, natural, professional mode (cinema + bright), and CTOnews.com is also simply measured by color calibrator.

In professional mode (cinema, Display P3 mode), the measured screen has 99.9% sRGB color gamut and 98.2% DCI-P3 color gamut.

Considering the error of the test, the result is very close to the official data.

Not only that, the color accuracy performance of this outer screen is also amazing, the average color offset Δ E is only 0.56, and the maximum Δ E is only 1.19, which belongs to the professional color performance.

Let's take a look at the performance of the inner screen.

Also measured in professional mode (cinema, Display P3 mode), the results show that the inner screen also has 99.9% sRGB gamut and 97.9% DCI-P3 gamut, and the color performance is almost the same as that of the outer screen.

The average color offset Δ E of the inner screen is only 0.5, and the maximum Δ E is only 1.17.

Through the actual measurement, it is proved that the color and color accuracy of the OPPO Find N2 inner and outer screen are almost the same, so when you frequently switch between the inner screen and the outer screen, there is no sense of fragmentation in the experience.

After talking about the screen quality, let's talk about the screen shape experience of OPPO Find N2.

The OPPO Find N2 outer screen is 5.54 inches in size and has a 17.7-to-9 display ratio. If you have ever experienced the start-up era of a smartphone, this outer screen is your lost youth.

The outer screen of some folding screen phones use a very exaggerated display ratio, and the exaggerated display ratio may even cause problems such as picture clipping, but OPPO Find N2 will not. The experience of this outer screen is very similar to that of smartphones in the early years, and the app can be used around the clock as a home screen without additional optimization.

Not only that, the OPPO Find N2 outer screen has a very narrow frame and a higher screen share, which can be easily controlled with one hand.

This size simply makes small screen enthusiasts ecstatic.

Of course, there is a certain thickness of the body of the OPPO Find N2 in the folding state, reaching 14.6mm, like two iPhone Mini superimposed together. When you look at the OPPO Find N2 in the folded state from various angles, it has a kind of "cute fat" feeling.

When unfolded, the inner screen size of OPPO Find N2 is 7.1in, and the 8.4VR / 9 ratio looks like a square. In addition, when the OPPO Find N2 is deployed, it can be used directly, instead of rotating the angle first, as other folding screen phones do.

Hinge design, OPPO Find N2 uses a carbon fiber screen skeleton + ultra-light Seiko vertebra hinge, and passed the Rhine folding worry-free certification 2022, in the previous official sharing of the hinge comparison map, it can be seen that the width of the new generation of self-developed hinges has greatly narrowed, at the same time, the volume of parts has also been significantly reduced.

OPPO self-developed hinge comparison picture, top left: previous generation, bottom right: new generation this is also an important reason why OPPO Find N2 can greatly lose weight.

Going back to the inner screen crease that everyone is most concerned about, OPPO Find N2 follows the idea of "trading crease area for crease depth", which does not completely eliminate creases, but this problem is negligible in daily experience.

Only in the rest of the screen, a specific angle can see the abrupt creases, or fingers across the center of the screen, you can feel that the screen is uneven.

But again, as long as you don't stare at it all the time, you can pretend it doesn't exist.

And, in the author's high-intensity use these days, the screen crease has not changed, of course, it will take time to prove that it is not durable. But in terms of Find N's performance over the past year, it has really stood the test of time.

Then there will be no problem with OPPO Find N2.

Third, interactive article 1, shape interactive experience first of all, OPPO Find N2 continues the size screen relay function, after the inner screen folding, the small screen will appear up-slide prompt, 3 seconds no operation automatic message screen, up-slide to continue the inner screen content browsing, the application convergence is very smooth.

Secondly, OPPO Find N2 brings a very powerful hovering function, which can hover at an angle of 45 °- 125 °, and further enriches the adaptation of third-party top applications.

For example, Youku, Mango TV, iqiyi and other video App hover to watch movies; for example, QQ hover video calls; NetEase Yun Music also has a hover music feature, which can display lyrics on the top half of the screen and switch songs on the bottom half of the screen. In addition, it also includes hovering photography, hovering fitness and other functions.

Hover to watch the movie

On the basis of continuing the hover experience of OPPO Find N, OPPO Find N2 also brings the function of "hover space". Different from the traditional "hover space", "hover space" breaks the use logic of "apply first and then hover". As long as you keep the phone in a hover state, you can enter the "hover space".

In this space, the upper screen of Find N2 is used for content display, and the lower screen is used for manipulation, swiping left and right to switch applications, and double-clicking to enter App, which is similar to the control concept of notebook.

As can be seen in the hover space, Find N2 further taps a lot of interactive experiences related to folding.

When reviewing Find N last year, CTOnews.com mentioned that "hover interaction" leaves a lot of imagination for folding screen phones, and developers can take advantage of folding advantages and hardware form to expand more imaginative operations and games.

"hovering space" is a concrete manifestation of this imagination.

Of course, the current functional experience of "hovering space" is still relatively simple, but there is also a general prototype, as long as there are more functions and content of OTA in the later stage of OPPO, then "hovering space" can make Find N2 a new form of smartphone.

In addition to the "hover space", the "tent mode" is also worth mentioning.

Just like the name, when the bright screen is unlocked, the Find N2 is placed upside down on the desktop, and the outer screen faces outward, showing a "tent" state with a folding opening and closing angle between 10 °and 120 °, and the picture and operation will be locked on the outer screen.

Tent mode in "tent mode", you can use the outer screen more easily, such as watching movies through the outer screen, or using some horizontal screen applications. At this time, the whole mobile phone also takes into account the function of the mobile phone bracket, which is even more stable and practical than "hovering".

Tent mode is also more suitable for time-lapse photography of sunrise, sunset and star orbit scenes than "hover mode", because in tent mode, the back camera module is facing up. And "hover" is more suitable for some plane photography.

2. The system interaction experience has finished the morphological interaction of OPPO Find N2. Let's talk about the large screen interaction of OPPO Find N2.

First of all, OPPO Find N2 further enriches the large screen adaptation for third-party applications. Take "NetEyun Music" as an example, without making a large screen adaptation, the screen will be forcibly enlarged after opening, and the display content is not even better than that of a traditional mobile phone, or you can manually select the application display ratio in the "compatibility mode". Both ways waste large screen space.

OPPO Find N2 on the "NetEyun Music" is adapted, you can see that the UI design is more reasonable, rather than stiff horizontal pull, the large screen experience is significantly better.

Of course, the vast majority of commonly used third-party applications already support the "parallel window" function, after all, there are not many applications such as "NetEyun Music" that do not adapt to parallel windows.

In the Settings-large screen area-parallel window, you can choose whether to turn on this mode or not.

Take Taobao as an example, after opening, you can use one side of the screen to chat with customer service, and the other side to visit the new store.

For example, CTOnews.comApp, you can browse the article while watching the live broadcast of the press conference.

Parallel window demonstration in the Settings-large screen area, you can find all the settings related to the large screen, including application split screen, free floating window, hover mode, large and small screen relay, application layout optimization, compatibility mode, and so on.

This is better than the competitors next door, putting all the settings related to the big screen in the first place, rather than under the messy seed settings menu, it is also easy for users to find.

Using the split screen function, OPPO Find N2 has also been further upgraded.

When you switch the application back to the background, you can also click the button above to choose whether to split the screen or float the window.

Application split screen demonstration this time also added the "split screen screenshot" function, this function is very interesting, in the split screen state, in the left, right, middle three fingers under the screenshot, you can capture the corresponding position of the picture.

Screenshot demonstration for example, after Taobao and CTOnews.com split screen, the author three fingers on Taobao App, you can screenshot Taobao interface, in CTOnews.com up and down, then capture the CTOnews.com interface, if the three fingers are about middle and bottom, then the entire split screen interface will be captured.

Some people may think that this feature is useless, but it is not, because OPPO has added "cross-screen sharing" on top of it.

Cross-screen sharing demonstration to give the simplest example, as shown above, when we use Taobao and Wechat on separate screens, we see a beautiful dress and mobile phone on Wechat, and we want to take it to Taobao for image search. at this time, take a screenshot directly on the side of Wechat, and then drag the picture to Taobao to complete the picture recognition function. It is easy to operate and saves the tedious need to switch App back and forth.

OPPO Find N2 also adds "multi-page split screen", which is a timely help for Wechat.

Although the Wechat of a folding screen phone already supports split-screen function, it still runs full-screen when browsing moments, such as an article on moments that still runs full-screen when opened.

To this end, OPPO Find N2 added a "multi-page split". In the Wechat article, there will be a split button in the upper right corner. After clicking, it will open the split. At this time you can read the article and chat at the same time.

Multi-page split-screen presentation, of course, this can be done not only for articles on moments, but also for links opened in Wechat.

In the split-screen state, you can also switch positions left and right, or split the screen up and down.

3. System function experience OPPO Find N2 carries the official version of ColorOS 13 system. CTOnews.com has made a detailed evaluation on the system experience. Interested partners can click "ColorOS 13 experience" to learn about it.

Here we focus on the newly upgraded intelligent sidebar scene function of ColorOS 13, which can listen to songs when watching video, read aloud when reading articles, and even intelligently take screenshots and convert voice conference content into text during network video conference.

For example, when the author opens the video App, the sidebar will change from translucent to blue for reminding. After exhaling the sidebar, it will take the initiative to identify background music, play mode and screen sharing.

For example, when you open an article, the sidebar will prompt the "read article" function.

More importantly, in the conference scenario, this function transforms the voice in the meeting into text in real time.

For example, when you open "Tencent Conference", you can exhale "subtitle transfer" through the sidebar. After clicking the split button, the left half of the screen displays the tripartite meeting application, and the right half of the screen shows subtitle transcription.

If you fold the phone into hover mode, the upper half of the screen displays the minutes of the tripartite meeting, and the lower half of the screen displays the subtitle transcript.

For business people who have frequent meetings, this function is very practical.

4. OPPO PenOPPO Find N2 also adds OPPO Pen support. OPPO Pen is equipped with OPPO self-developed handwriting engine, which supports up to 4096 pressure sensation, and can simulate the feel of writing and rubber wiping through vibration feedback.

In terms of function, it supports note shorthand and slides the exhaled note shorthand window into the screen in the lower right corner of the screen under any interface.

In terms of battery life, full electricity can write continuously for 11 hours (with pencil case). The pencil case is equipped with UBS-C cable, which can charge OPPO Pen twice at full charge. In addition, OPPO Pen also supports remote control photo taking, quick screenshot, automatic retraction of pen tip and other functions.

What's interesting, though, is that OPPO Pen currently only supports inner screens, not outer screens.

As for the reason, maybe OPPO feels that there is no room for a stylus on this 5.5inch outer screen?

4. In the video section, OPPO Find N2 is equipped with OPPO | Hasu mobile phone image system, image specifications:

5000 megapixel camera (Sony IMX890)

4800 megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens (Sony IMX581)

32 million 2x telephoto lens (Sony IMX709)

32 million Front Lens (OV32C)

The functional aspects include Hassel XPAN mode, Hassel professional mode, natural color sensor, TurboRaw 2.0, portrait mode 2.0 and so on.

OPPO Find N2 is blessed with Mariana ®MariSilicon X, so it also supports 4K 30FPS ultra-clear night scene video shooting.

Main photo: the Sony IMX890 of OPPO Find N2 is also the one on OPPO Reno9 Pro +, but judging from the sample photo, Hassel's color adjustment does give the photo a different taste.

OPPO Find N2 sample style as a whole is to restore the truth-based, the bright place details are clear, the dark place is not a bright, a lost to improve the picture contrast, more emphasis on light and shadow contrast of three-dimensional and realistic.

Ultra-wide-angle sample: in the evaluation of the previous generation of OPPO Find N, the author complained that the ultra-wide-angle position was so low that it was easy to take a picture of the finger. This time the OPPO Find N2 ultra-wide-angle lens is placed at the top, no matter what kind of grip, this problem will not occur.

The IMX581 has a 1x2 inch photosensitive area and an aperture f / 2.2, which is good enough for an ultra-wide-angle lens, but in the same environment, the exposure strategy of this lens is more conservative than that of the main camera, which may be the reason why the bottom is not as large as the main shot.

2X telephoto sample: the overall performance of Sony IMX709's 2x telephoto lens is also good, especially under the hash tone, the color is very pleasing.

For example, in the following sample, the winter sun shines directly on the wooden railing, showing a warm color blending style, full of three-dimensional sense of light and shadow, and a sense of atmosphere.

Night sample: the same is true for night mode, OPPO Find N2 does not adopt the usual crazy lighting mode like night vision, the exposure strategy is a little conservative, and the night sample is as realistic as possible, especially with excellent highlight suppression and flagship color and detail performance.

Main photographer

However, the main shot of the ultra-wide angle and 2X is slightly difficult at night. When the night scene mode is turned on, the ultra-wide angle is slightly reddish in certain circumstances (such as when there is a red neon light), while the 2X resolution is slightly insufficient.

Ultra-wide angle

2X of course, the performance of OPPO Find N2 is in line with expectations.

In the experience section, OPPO Find N2 also supports the "shoot-and-preview" function of photos, such as shooting on the right screen, and then showing the sample on the left screen. It also supports functions such as 4K delay photography and hovering group photos in hover mode.

5. Performance section (games and running scores are all tested under the inner screen, and the performance mode is turned on)

The OPPO Find N2 is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+Gen1 processor, which is familiar to everyone. Compared with the previous generation, the biggest upgrade of Snapdragon 8 + is the use of TSMC process, resulting in a significant reduction in heating and power consumption.

There is no denying that Snapdragon 8 + does make Qualcomm get rid of the title of Fire Dragon and get back on track to a certain extent.

Other configurations, including LPDDR5+UFS3.1, support for NFC, dual cards (nano-SIM cards), and memory expansion that supports up to 8GB, can obtain the highest 24GB operation and storage.

Let's take a brief look at the running points:

As shown in the figure above, the comprehensive score of OPPO Find N2 is 1085821.

In terms of GeekBench 5 running score, OPPO Find N2 was 1267 in single core and 3862 in multi-core.

OPPO Find N2 also achieved the performance of full blood UFS3.1 in the memory read test.

Next up is the game test. In the test, the e-sports mode of the mobile phone was turned on.

We chose the "original god" with high performance requirements for testing.

High-end picture quality + 60 frames, dynamic blur off, the scene is still wild.

The picture quality of the original god is set as above

The measured results show that the average frame rate of OPPO Find N2 is 49.8fps, which is close to the level of 50fps. The game initially stabilized in 60fps, then encountered a battle field, lasted about 4 minutes, and the frame rate fluctuated between 48 and 60fps. Then it stabilized around 49fps. After leaving the battle scene at a later stage, the frame rate will rise back to 60fps immediately after the temperature drops.

Overall, the performance tuning of OPPO Find N2 is slightly conservative, but the overall performance is also within expectations.

Surprisingly, the temperature control performance of the OPPO Find N2 is good, with a maximum temperature of only 42 °C, which is much better than the 45-48 °C performance of Snapdragon 8.

In addition, the Find N2 power consumption is only just over 5W, which belongs to a very low level.

Overall, the performance of the OPPO Find N2 is not better than that of the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen2, but the overall performance is quite good. After all, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, which can still be classified as a flagship.

6. OPPO Find N2 is equipped with 4520mAh battery and supports 67W super flash charge. Officials say it can charge 37% in 10 minutes.

CTOnews.com also did a simple test.

In an indoor environment of 25 ±1 °C, 1% starts to charge and can reach 80% + power in 30 minutes, and it takes 42 minutes to fully charge.

CTOnews.com also tested the 2-hour battery life of OPPO Find N2. Before the test, set the volume and screen brightness of the mobile phone system to 50%. Bluetooth is enabled, connected to Wi-Fi network, and 5G network is enabled. The whole process is carried out in inner screen mode.

First, play the "original God" for 30 minutes, consuming 14% of the electricity:

"Game for Peace" for 30 minutes, consuming 7% of electricity:

30min 1080p online video, power consumption 5%:

30 minutes short video, power consumption 4%:

For a total of 120 minutes of test time, OPPO Find N2 consumes a total of 30% power.

For a folding screen phone, this performance is still quite excellent. In daily use, the battery life of OPPO Find N2 is enough to meet the author's normal use for a day (basically using a large screen, no need to recharge from 8: 00 a.m. to 6: 00 p.m.).

For example, as shown in the following figure, the OPPO Find N2 still has 36% of the power left after six hours of bright screen, which also includes an hour of high-intensity games, an hour of video calls, about 45 minutes of navigation and a variety of piecemeal short videos.

From this point of view, according to the author's medium strength machine habit, OPPO Find N2 adhere to 8 hours is not a problem.

Summary: although the configuration of OPPO Find N2 can not be called the king of stacker, regardless of product form or interactive innovation, Find N2 is one of the most temperament, characteristics and ideas products in the current folding screen mobile phone market.

With the application of a new generation of ultra-lightweight Seiko vertebral hinges and innovative materials, OPPO Find N2 has refreshed the weight record of the horizontal folding machine and is the first to open the door of the lightweight era of folding screens.

The OPPO Find N2 also continues the excellent grip feel of the previous generation, with a 5.54inch outer screen size that can be operated with one hand, while the expanded 7.1inch mirror inner screen unfolds the horizontal screen without the need for secondary rotation. The hover space for the first time also carries OPPO's deep thinking about the interaction of the folding screen for nearly a year.

It has the weight of a straight phone, but it brings a "experience beyond a straight phone", which is the new OPPO Find N2.

OPPO Find N2 is not only the weight revolution of folding screen, but also the "weight revolution" of folding screen mobile phone interaction.

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