Oppo is about to launch the world’s thinnest foldable cellphone

Skinny telephones are again in vogue.

Apple is rumored to launch a thinner model of the iPhone, referred to as the iPhone Air, within the fall. However China’s Oppo is attempting to steal a few of Apple’s thunder with the Oppo Discover N5, which the corporate claims would be the world’s thinnest foldable cellphone.

Oppo posted a teaser this week that indicated the Discover N5 is certainly a particularly skinny system, because it’s considerably thinner than a standard pencil.

Oppo’s chief product officer, Pete Lau, shared the picture of the system on Weibo (through GSMArena). Particulars are scarce, however the put up does say that the cellphone is coming in February.

On the subject of common smartphones, I am not totally satisfied that thinner is best; a tool that is too skinny could be simpler to break (keep in mind Bendgate?) and typically it is simply simpler to handle a cellphone that has just a little heft within the hand. For foldables, nevertheless, thinner is best, as most foldable telephones are nonetheless considerably heavier and thicker than common gadgets. A foldable cellphone this skinny seems like having your cake and consuming it too — you get that additional display screen actual property with out sacrificing pocketability.

Proper now, the thinnest foldable cellphone round is Honor Magic V3, which is simply 4.35 millimetres thick when unfolded and 9.2 millimetres thick when folded, so anticipate Oppo’s new cellphone to be just a little thinner than that.

There isn’t any official phrase on specs, however rumors say that the Oppo Discover N5 could have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, a triple, 50-megapixel rear digicam system, and a 5,900mAh digicam.

Whereas the Oppo Discover N5 will doubtless solely be obtainable in China, it is fairly doable that Oppo’s sister firm OnePlus launches it because the OnePlus Open 2 — in any case, that is precisely what Oppo did with the Oppo Discover N3 and the OnePlus Open.