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OPPO accounted for 27% of the domestic folding screen smartphone market between January and March 2023, up from 18% a year ago, according to Counterpoint Research.

It turns out that the four folding screen phones released by OPPO so far are all quite successful and, to some extent, have led the innovation of the folding screen industry.

For example, a generation of OPPO Find N led the folding screen industry from "tasting fresh" to "commonly used" with the help of "the only seamless hidden mark to hover" on the market at that time; OPPO Find N2 achieved the lightest horizontal folding mobile phone in the industry at that time through the reconstruction of innovative materials and key structural components; the small folding OPPO Find N2 Flip brought extremely practical and the industry's only vertical large outer screen. The Find N 3 Flip carries a super-light shadow triple shot, which brings the image experience with the top of the small fold.

As you can see, every folding screen product created by OPPO is thinking.

This kind of thinking is not only an insight into the trend of the industry, but also an understanding and grasp of consumer demand, not "folding for the sake of folding".

Under this concept, the new OPPO Find N3 also arrived as expected.

Unexpectedly, OPPO Find N3 did come up with a lot of different things, including the brightest double diamond screen, 15-inch panoramic virtual screen, super light and shadow three shots. On a frivolous basis, OPPO Find N3 does not have any compromise, but also focuses on security and privacy.

Obviously, after three years of iteration of OPPO's folding screen, OPPO has a new interpretation of horizontal large folding phones.

Table of contents:

I. appearance design

II. Image experience

III. Large screen interaction

Fourth, performance experience

First, compared with the previous two generations of products, the change in the appearance of OPPO Find N3 is quite obvious.

First of all, the OPPO Find N3 is no longer the "wide and fat" body of the past, the outer screen ratio has changed from 17.7 9 to 20:9, and the outer screen size has changed from 5.54 to 6.3 inches, so the whole machine is slimmer when folded.

Secondly, the Find N3 rear shell, middle frame and outer screen have all been replaced with a "flat" design, and the highlighted "aluminum alloy" straight-edged middle frame looks much more severe.

One side of the outer screen is no longer a micro-curved surface, and there is almost a "flat" transition between the middle frame and the rear shell of the foggy glass.

With this concise design language, Find N3 looks quite pure, with more obvious high-end business attributes and, more bluntly, more expensive.

As for whether it looks good, the author will not draw a conclusion, but an obvious trend is that high-end phones, including Samsung Galaxy Z folding screen and iPhone, are using this concise design language.

The third significant change is the huge circular camera module on the back that can't be ignored.

Officials call it the "ring design" of the classic chronograph watch. In detail, inside the circular module, the three cameras are presented in a ring, including a rectangular telephoto lens with a square in the middle of the circle. There are circles of concentric circles on the outside of each camera. On the right side of the periscope, the classic Hassel mark appears with the "H" sign.

The circular flash is designed on the outside of the module, wrapped in high-glossy metal, with a bit of decorative beauty.

The image inscription is arranged in a circular layout in the module extension, and a transition similar to the "crater" is used at the connection between the lens module and the fuselage to reduce the outburst of this huge module on the flat rear shell.

However, after all, it is too big, too protruding, in any case, you can not ignore the existence of this module. This also makes the professional image attribute of OPPO Find N3 a little bit stronger. After all, the phones that take the strongest photos are almost all unified big ring modules.

In terms of details, the charging port and SIM card slot are located at the bottom of the fuselage, and there are two loudspeaker openings in the upper and lower middle frame. On the basis of stereo, Find N3 also adds external spatial audio technology for the first time, and supports the frontier multi-speaker system and hover stereo.

The power key / fingerprint identification and volume keys are located on the middle frame on the same side of the fuselage, while on the other side is a three-segment mute button with a diamond-cut "diamond texture".

In terms of screen, the inner and outer screens of Find N3 are completely consistent with the display specifications:

Dynamic peak brightness has reached an amazing 2800 nit, global maximum brightness 1400 Hz 120 Hz free dynamic refresh rate, 1440 Hz PWM dimming, 10bit color depth, 100% P3 color gamut coverage, HDR10+, support for multi-brightness color calibration, global color management.

The Find N3 has a 6.3in outer screen with 2484 x 1116 resolution and a 20:9 ratio, while the expanded inner screen has a 7.8inch resolution with 2440 x 2268 resolution and a 6vv 5.6 ratio. Both screens are 430PPI.

The inner and outer screens with exactly the same display quality mean that there is no sense of fragmentation when switching between the inner and outer screens of the OPPO Find N3.

In terms of screen material, the Find N3 outer screen also uses super-ceramic glass, which brings 1.7 times impact resistance and 5 times fall resistance.

The inner screen is a "mirror diamond screen", which has the advantages of the shallowest crease and the hardest support. The inner screen also uses ultra-thin UTG glass, which is more reliable. The new aeronautical alloy Seiko vertebra hinge further reduces the number and weight of parts and allows the Find N3 to bring a free hover of 45-125 °.

As for the crease of the Find N3, in fact, the previous generation of N2 has done well enough, this time the N3 goes a step further-it is almost invisible, and even in the breath screen, the crease of the bend can only be seen vaguely when the strong light hits.

In the same sentence, as long as you don't stare at it all the time, you can pretend it doesn't exist.

We are most concerned about the weight, the glass version of Qianshan green and log gold weighs about 245g, the plain skin version of submarine black is slightly lighter, 239g. The collapsed state is 11.7mm and the expanded state is 5.8mm thickness.

Compared with the 233g (leather version) of the previous product, the weight of the OPPO Find N3 is slightly increased, but, after all, the overall size and hardware configuration of the latter have increased significantly. Find N3 has reduced it as much as possible through a series of materials and design innovations. On the other hand, the weight of many straight-screen flagship machines with a set of silicone case has reached the range of about 240g. So the OPPO Find N3 is still a lightweight horizontal folding screen phone that is still within acceptable range.

The author thinks that although it has an extra weight of 10g, it also brings the strongest three-camera system, better screen, larger battery, better system interaction and so on, which is still a multiple choice question, not a right or wrong question.

I believe that the vast majority of consumers will undoubtedly choose the latter.

As for why the previous two generations of "wide and fat" shape designs have been abandoned, a large part of the change in the screen display ratio of the Find N3 is for a more efficient, user-friendly and reasonable large-screen interactive experience-the new ColorOS 13.2 and the resulting panoramic virtual screen.

In the following third part of the system experience, the author will bring a more detailed explanation.

Next, let's move on to the second part, the video chapter.

Second, the image experience Find N3 is equipped with the super-light shadow three-shot system, which continues the OPPO super-light shadow image engine, natural color engine and ultra-clear image quality engine on the Find X6 series.

The hardware aspects include:

4800 megapixel folded pixel wide-angle, 1max 1.43in, single pixel size 1.12um, aperture F1.7, support for optical anti-shake, 7p mirror group

6400 megapixel superluminous periscope telephoto, 1max 2 inch, pixel size 0.7 um, aperture F2.6, support for optical anti-shake, nearest focus distance 25cm

4800 megapixel high resolution ultra wide angle, 1 stroke 2 inch, pixel size 0.8um, aperture F2.2, FOV 114deg.

Front camera: 2000 megapixels on the inner screen and 3200 megapixels on the outer screen.

In terms of sensor size, there is still a gap between the 1.43-inch wide angle of the Find N3 and the one-inch outsole of the top straight screen flagship, but OPPO also shows that it's not that you don't want to give it, it's just that it can't fit in-- this is a common problem in the industry, and the largest sensor size for all released folding screen phones is 1.49 inches. The Find N3's 1-stroke 1.43 inch has actually reached the current ceiling level. Even so, the camera module has obvious bulges.

It is conceivable that if the bottom was stuffed into an inch, the bulge would be a small hill directly.

Obviously, under the existing technology, simply increasing the outsole size is no longer the best choice for folding screens to make flagship images. So if you can't get into the outsole, how can you have the same ultra-high dynamic range and photosensitivity as the outsole sensor?

OPPO gives a new way to solve the problem: folding pixel technology.

In September, OPPO officially announced the technology from Sony, the LYTIA image sensor with double-layer transistor pixel technology.

To put it simply, the first layer of the "double-layer transistor pixel" is a photodiode and the second layer is a pixel transistor. The combination of the two can capture more light and reduce image noise. The problem of underexposure and overexposure in a combination of bright and dim lighting (such as backlight) can be avoided, and high-quality, low-noise images can be obtained even in low-light (such as indoor, night) environments.

Quite a bit of a feeling of four or two dialing thousands of pounds.

According to official data, Find N3 can achieve 120% of its dynamic range in extreme light ratio scenarios with a sensor area about half the size of the one-inch sensor IMX989. Compared with sensors of the same size, the Find N3 can also achieve a dynamic range of up to 220%. Compared with the previous generation of Find N2, the folded pixel sensor provides a 20% increase in photosensitivity and a dynamic range of up to 355% for the Find N3.

Let's look directly at the performance of the sample sheet:

(note: all uploaded samples are compressed)

We chose to shoot at the time of the afternoon, when the setting sun was setting in the west, the sky was getting late, and the light was not particularly abundant in the evening.

As shown in the above picture sheet, this "folded pixel" sensor combined with the super-light shadow image engine can still restore highlights and ensure certain colors in high dynamic range scenes, especially in sunset scenes, where the sunset is warm and golden. The color of the sky stretches to the distance, and the sense of light and shadow is distinct.

Even without the "folding pixel" technology, the performance of the 1.43-inch sensor is at least the first echelon in the entire folding screen field, and with the "folding pixel", it can be said to be strong.

With its ultra-high dynamic range and photosensitivity, Find N3 is not afraid of dark light, comparable to the color and brightness of an inch outsole.

More importantly, the Find N3 also has two 2800 nit screens with dynamic peak brightness, which not only ensures the transparency of outdoor use, but also for OPPO's Pro XDR service to a certain extent.

The built-in Pro XDR in the album is the HDR sample shot by Find N3. On this screen, the sample will have a more shocking look and feel, allowing the most real light and shadow of the HDR image to dynamically overflow the screen.

Find N3 periscope long-focus and ultra-wide-angle performance is also quite excellent, many thin folding screen phones, in the ultra-wide-angle and long-focus parts tend to be "perfunctory" some.

The advantage of the Find N3 is that the two lenses are comparable to the flagship straight-screen images, such as the sensor size of the ultra-wide-angle lens.

The three cameras also have the same color effect, OPPO is very good at handling the tone, the sample looks very textured, the color is delicate and real, and the picture is three-dimensional and transparent, which is also the advanced aesthetic performance after the combination of OPPO and Hasu.

Super wide-angle sample sheet:

There is also this 6400 megapixel telephoto, which officially claims to be the strongest superluminous telephoto by far on the folding screen. The super resolution of 6400 megapixels, whether in 3x or 6X, can make the sample have excellent clarity and expressive power of light and shadow.

Periscope long focus sample sheet:

With the addition of this lens, Find N3 has the portrait shooting ability comparable to that of the Find X6 series.

So far, the current OPPO mobile phone product line, including two size folding, Reno10 series and Find X series, all have the same level of outstanding portrait shooting advantages.

The portrait shooting of Find N3 almost follows the OPPO Find X6 series.

Sample portrait sheet:

Although there is still a gap between this 1p 2-inch superluminous telephoto telephoto and the X6 series IMX890 in terms of sensor specifications, it still has the same Hassel portrait algorithm, and in most scenes, the portrait performance of the Find N3 is basically the same as that of the X6-very textured and truly gradually virtual.

The human picture taken by Find N3 can stand up to magnification and scrutiny, and it is difficult to find traces of the algorithm, even on the edges of clothes, hair areas and the flare effects behind them. This is the most advanced computational photography.

You can also choose different beauty levels (0-100) in portrait shooting. Find N3 beauty features retain facial skin and skin color, but repair facial defects with high precision.

More sample sheets:

Large screen interaction for a folding screen mobile phone, large screen interaction is the core of the experience. How to make full use of the large screen advantage of the folding screen? What kind of interaction is really needed by consumers? This is a problem that every folding screen manufacturer needs to think about seriously.

On the new ColorOS 13. 2 system, OPPO gives a new answer.

Although the new system is not "leapfrog" in the version number, the change is quite huge in terms of experience, which explains why the Find N3 has changed the "wide and fat" form that has been used for two generations.

Let's talk about it one by one.

First of all, ColorOS 13.2adds a new bottom taskbar, similar to Apple Mac's Dock bar layout, where you can pin the commonly used App at the bottom of the screen.

When the screen is expanded, the taskbar is fixed at the bottom of the screen in a reduced way. In most full-screen scenarios (such as opening CTOnews.com), the taskbar always maintains a first-level display.

This means that in most scenarios, you don't have to switch backgrounds, and you can quickly switch applications and multitasking from sliding to clicking by clicking the App icon at the bottom of the taskbar.

Samsung One UI 4.1s are also available with a similar design. This intuitive and efficient operation logic is very similar to opening PC-- wherever it is clicked.

What's even better about ColorOS 13.2is that this taskbar can be hidden (long press to hide and show).

ColorOS 13.2also provides two system navigation modes: three diamond keys and full screen gestures. With a higher degree of customization, users can choose according to their own preferences.

With the new bottom taskbar, the split-screen experience of the Find N3 is easier, even though you can still choose to slide down the split screen with both fingers. But on the Find N3, you can also quickly split the screen by dragging any icon on the taskbar and sliding to either side of the screen.

At the same time, in the taskbar, OPPO also added a special "application library" icon, click to open the application, or drag and drop the split screen.

The second big change in ColorOS 13.2 is the original panoramic virtual screen.

In the past, the split-screen applications of folded-screen mobile phones were often displayed in half of the left and right screens. These split-screen applications could not be used in full screen, so they could only be squeezed on the screen, and their display area would be reduced because of the "split screen".

The panoramic virtual screen of the traditional split-screen scheme ColorOS 13.2is the split-screen application, which will cover the whole big screen.

Panoramic virtual screen demo at this time you may wonder, the physical size of the screen is 7.8 inches here, so how to make these multi-applications appear on a large screen?

The answer lies in the word "virtual".

As shown below, in the split-screen state, all applications can run in the form of a large screen, and you can quickly switch between the foreground and waiting states according to the needs of use.

Panoramic virtual screen demonstration panoramic virtual screen provides a very rich way to split the screen, and each application can be displayed in both small and large windows.

You can use the traditional double split screen scheme (half screen + half screen), full screen + half screen, half screen + half screen, large screen + big screen.

The interactive mode is also very simple. Click the status bar at the top of the application to choose the display size, or drag and drop the status bar in the middle to select full screen, large screen and half screen.

Interactive demonstration

Interactive demonstration OPPO is also aimed at the new multi-split screen, with built-in intelligent window algorithm, which can automatically provide more suitable split display layout suggestions for multi-split applications.

Users can also arrange according to their own preferences, all of which can be controlled by the users themselves.

Four finger screen kneading, split screen application can enter panoramic mode, and each application is really God's perspective of course, these "split screen" applications are flat, OPPO put forward the application "waiting" concept, when you need to use which application, this application will appear on the screen this window, while other applications will be temporarily in the "waiting" state, will not be interrupted. For example, when you encounter a large update of the game, the game in the "waiting" state will continue to be updated.

Consider some simple application scenarios:

For example, when traveling, users can use an app to read the travel guide, an app to navigate the way, and an app to view nearby delicacies, and all three apps are fully displayed, and the screen will not be "clipped".

For example, Word and PPT are edited on a large screen at the same time, and the content between the two apps can also be shared by dragging and dropping.

For example, the big screen to see the strategy, the big screen to play games.

From the perspective of interactive logic, the panoramic virtual screen brought by ColorOS 13.2is not the same concept as the traditional split screen at all.

The traditional split screen is to reduce the display area of the application, and then squeeze all these "slimming" applications on a limited-size physical screen.

Panoramic virtual screen is a completely different way of thinking. You can use this physical screen as a "stage searchlight". Wherever you go, the application will be presented to the user as a whole.

Or you can understand that the physical screen of the Find N3 is just a window, and you have a God's perspective, under the screen, these split-screen applications are presented in a "completely full" state, like a 15-inch panoramic virtual screen.

It can be said that ColorOS 13.2really breaks the limitation of the physical size of the screen, so that applications can take full advantage of the large screen on the big screen.

This set of interactive ideas with a large screen is really worth learning from competitors.

Other aspects, such as the previous two generations of Find N compatibility mode, parallel windows, free floating windows and other large-screen interaction functions, Find N3 also supports all, but with the "reduced-dimension strike" panoramic virtual screen, these functions can only be said to be the icing on the cake.

In the application of large screen adaptation, OPPO achieved 85% of the adaptation of TOP 3000 applications. ColorOS 13.2also remodels the overall large screen for system-level self-research applications, rather than simply enlarging the filling.

For example, after the calendar is reshaped, on the left is the calendar information, and on the right is the detailed information deployment of the day's detailed plan; the photo album can be a photo on the left and a detailed view of the photo year, month and day on the right; click on the album editing, and the corresponding editing icon will be displayed on the right.

calendar

Photo album

Album editing

Calculator OPPO has now completed a comprehensive large screen reshaping of 30 + self-developed applications.

Such as Youku, Futu Niuniu, Seiying, NetEase Cloud Music, WPS, Xiaohongshu and many other three-party applications, ColorOS has also been deeply customized.

Reshaped QQ Music player interface

The third upgrade of the reshaped QQ Music player interface is aimed at business office and security scenes.

For example, ColorOS 13.2 adds the file arbitrary door function, which is also fixed on the taskbar.

In the global state of the application, click on any door to quickly manage and share recent files, pictures and clipboard information, and drag and drop to share.

In new scenarios such as business mobile office, ColorOS 13.2also created a versatile file management experience and was the first Android mobile system to view Keynote; the portable workbench allows files to be invoked across devices.

In terms of hardware, Find N3 has a national secret authentication security chip, and the security scheme has passed CC EAL5 +-level security authentication, such as file encryption, fingerprint management, etc. in terms of function, it supports privacy coding, call privacy protection, and so on.

In the collection version of Find N3, OPPO also adds VIP mode, which can effectively ensure the privacy and security of users, which is experienced in detail in the video evaluation of CTOnews.com.

Find N3 Collection version 4, performance experience OPPO Find N3 is equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen2 processor, as for why not use the new, is also the old tradition of Find N, after all, the release time node is here, and Snapdragon 8 Gen3 also means that the final product pricing of Find N3 will be higher.

Of course, there is no doubt that Snapdragon 8 Gen3 was the king of Android performance before the Snapdragon 8 Gen2 phone was shipped.

We are already very familiar with Snapdragon 8 Gen2. The 4nm process uses one Kryo super-large core based on Cortex-X3, main frequency 3.2GHz, 4 performance cores (2 x Cortex A715 + 2 x Cortex A710, all 2.8GHz), and 3 Cortex-A510 energy efficiency cores (small core, frequency 2.0GHz).

In other configurations, 12GB + 512 GB and 16GB + 1TB (collection version) are provided, with LPDDR5X and UFS4.0 specifications. 4805mAh battery, 67W super flash charge, support for 5G dual card enhancement, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3 and NFC.

Simple an Rabbit ran points, OPPO Find N3 easily won 1.577 million results (an Rabbit V10 version, big screen test), proper first echelon performance.

In the 3D Mark test, the Wild Life score reached 13049 and 20 rounds of stress tests, with a stability of 66.2%. The score in the first two rounds was about 13000, and the score in the third round began to drop to about 9000. This performance is also expected, which is more conservative in business orientation. Of course, although it is not a performance training to the mobile phone, but after all, Snapdragon 8 Gen2 is here, whether it is heavy games or daily use, Find N3 is still pressure-free.

Find N3 still does not support wireless charging, which is a tradition. But what the author is curious is, why only the memory of the collection version is 16 GB? It's not that 12GB is not enough, it's just that OPPO has been a pioneer of big memory in recent years. You know, 12GB and 16GB are basically popularized by OPPO, but it's still 12GB when it comes to OPPO Find N3. It can only be said that it's enough, but it's not beautiful.

Conclusion: due to the reason of time and space, the performance part can only be skipped. Please be more tolerant.

A brief summary of OPPO Find N3, the author immediately thought of the word bucket folding machine, after all, there are many bucket straight board machines, but the real bucket folding screen flagship is very few.

However, after thinking about it, it seems that it is too easy to use the bucket folding screen flagship to describe Find N3, because its long boards such as screen, image and system interaction are really long.

Take the image, for example! The only large folding portrait experience is comparable to the main photo shoot with an inch bottom and the ultra-wide angle at the top of the folding screen. if you pay special attention to the top photos, then the Find N3 is a rare choice for folding screen phones.

For example, system interaction, most manufacturers are for large screen folding to "adapt" applications, this adaptation can be seen as a simple change from 1 to 2, in essence, these manufacturers are still holding the thinking of straight-screen mobile phones. to do a large-screen interaction with a folding screen phone.

However, the folding screen mobile phone is actually a new form of product that is completely different from the straight board. If you want to solve some large screen interaction problems, you have to start from 0. OPPO uses ColorOS 13.2 to give a new large screen interaction template: virtual panoramic screen, global taskbar, file arbitrary door and other functions, these are OPPO jump out of the "adaptation" logic, with large screen interaction as the core of the new creation.

From a far-reaching point of view, the Find N3 collection version is OPPO's forward-looking and practical understanding of the large-screen interaction of folding screens after three years of deep cultivation in the field of folding screens.

OPPO Find N3 may not necessarily represent the ultimate direction of the future folding screen, but in terms of current experience, it must be a new model of horizontal folding interaction for competitors to learn from.

Price information: 9999 yuan for OPPO Find N3 12GB+512GB and 12999 yuan for classic 16GB+1TB. Bookings are now open for full sale at 10:00 on October 27th.

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