World's thinnest book-style foldable — 4.21mm unfolded, 8.93mm folded, 229g — that feels like a normal phone when shut, confirmed by 9to5Google, MKBHD, JerryRigEverything and Digital Trends.
Class-leading battery life for a foldable: the 5,600mAh silicon-carbon cell outlasts the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Magic V3 and Galaxy Z Fold6 by ~30% in Notebookcheck and Bhw4cpLAGO8's 11–12h screen-on-time over six months.
The near-creaseless inner display with anti-reflective coating is the best foldable screen implementation reviewers have used (9to5Google, ZONEofTECH, gadgetmatch).
ColorOS multitasking (Boundless View / Open Canvas) and Mac integration via O+ Connect are standout software wins — the only such Mac link on Android outside China (The Verge, 9to5Google).
It is the best-rounded, most refined book-style foldable on the market — Android Central, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google and gadgetmatch all rank it #1 in the category.
Pros & Cons
Oppo Find N5
Pros
World's thinnest book-style foldable — 4.21mm unfolded, 8.93mm folded, 229g — that feels like a normal phone when shut, confirmed by 9to5Google, MKBHD, JerryRigEverything and Digital Trends.
Class-leading battery life for a foldable: the 5,600mAh silicon-carbon cell outlasts the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Magic V3 and Galaxy Z Fold6 by ~30% in Notebookcheck and Bhw4cpLAGO8's 11–12h screen-on-time over six months.
The near-creaseless inner display with anti-reflective coating is the best foldable screen implementation reviewers have used (9to5Google, ZONEofTECH, gadgetmatch).
ColorOS multitasking (Boundless View / Open Canvas) and Mac integration via O+ Connect are standout software wins — the only such Mac link on Android outside China (The Verge, 9to5Google).
Detailed Comparison
Design & Build
Oppo Find N5
The Find N5's headline is physics: it is the thinnest and lightest book-style foldable ever, to the point reviewers compare its unfolded thinness to an iPad mini.
The world's thinnest book-style foldable at 8.93mm closed and 4.21mm unfolded, weighing just 229g — light enough that it doesn't feel cumbersome next to a Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
JerryRigEverything tested it specifically because, at 229g and 4.21mm unfolded, it is the lightest and thinnest book-style foldable in the industry.
Uses a 3D-printed titanium-alloy 'waterdrop' hinge; reviewers found the completely flat frame between the curved rails very comfortable in hand.
When splayed in tablet mode it is thinner than an iPhone 16 Pro Max, and the unfolded screen is comparable to an iPad mini — a 'best feeling, lightest eight-inch screen you can fit in a pocket.'
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Not officially sold in the US and hard to buy globally — every major outlet frames it as 'the best foldable you can't buy'; global units run ~£1,300 / ~$1,595 with no local warranty.
The 8MP ultrawide is a clear weak point and low-light shots fall behind slab flagships — GSMArena, Stuff and 9to5Google all flag the camera as the phone's biggest concession.
Cover-display screen-protector scratches easily and produces a rainbow polarization effect through sunglasses (kVjwgna4O5U), and there is no double-press camera-launch gesture (9to5Google).
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
What Reviewers Agree On
One of the best — frequently the best — camera phones of 2026, with a uniquely versatile quad Hasselblad system and class-leading 10x optical zoom
Class-leading battery life: a 7,050mAh silicon-carbon cell routinely delivers 8–10+ hours of screen-on time and can stretch to two days
100W SuperVOOC wired and 50W AirVOOC wireless charging — roughly 0–100% in 45–52 minutes
Stunning, distinctive Hasselblad-inspired design widely called one of the best-looking phones of the year
Excellent, very bright display — ~3,600 nits HDR peak and ~1,800 nits full-screen outdoors
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 delivers top-of-chart benchmark performance
Best-in-class video on an Android phone, with strong stabilization and 8K30 / 4K120 Dolby Vision across lenses
Deal Breakers
Heavy and large (≈236–239g, ~9.1mm) with a polarising oversized circular camera island
Expensive (≈€1,699 / ~$1,100+ in China) with limited or no official availability in many markets
ColorOS trails Samsung and Google on AI-feature depth and integration, and feels iOS-derived to some users
Mediocre sustained performance — 3DMark stability around 49% with peak performance dropping within a minute
It is the best-rounded, most refined book-style foldable on the market — Android Central, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google and gadgetmatch all rank it #1 in the category.
Cons
Not officially sold in the US and hard to buy globally — every major outlet frames it as 'the best foldable you can't buy'; global units run ~£1,300 / ~$1,595 with no local warranty.
The 8MP ultrawide is a clear weak point and low-light shots fall behind slab flagships — GSMArena, Stuff and 9to5Google all flag the camera as the phone's biggest concession.
Cover-display screen-protector scratches easily and produces a rainbow polarization effect through sunglasses (kVjwgna4O5U), and there is no double-press camera-launch gesture (9to5Google).
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Pros
One of the best — frequently the best — camera phones of 2026, with a uniquely versatile quad Hasselblad system and class-leading 10x optical zoom
Class-leading battery life: a 7,050mAh silicon-carbon cell routinely delivers 8–10+ hours of screen-on time and can stretch to two days
100W SuperVOOC wired and 50W AirVOOC wireless charging — roughly 0–100% in 45–52 minutes
Stunning, distinctive Hasselblad-inspired design widely called one of the best-looking phones of the year
Excellent, very bright display — ~3,600 nits HDR peak and ~1,800 nits full-screen outdoors
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 delivers top-of-chart benchmark performance
Best-in-class video on an Android phone, with strong stabilization and 8K30 / 4K120 Dolby Vision across lenses
Cons
Heavy and large (≈236–239g, ~9.1mm) with a polarising oversized circular camera island
Expensive (≈€1,699 / ~$1,100+ in China) with limited or no official availability in many markets
ColorOS trails Samsung and Google on AI-feature depth and integration, and feels iOS-derived to some users
Mediocre sustained performance — 3DMark stability around 49% with peak performance dropping within a minute
The slim profile does not extend to the camera bump, which protrudes generously — the one obvious concession to the thin design.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
A Hasselblad-camera tribute in phone form — vegan leather, a symmetrical 'master eye' module and a Hexagon-inspired ring. Gorgeous to most, oversized to some, and undeniably heavy.
One of the best-looking phones of the year.
Inspired by the Hasselblad X2D camera — the most beautiful phone of 2026 so far.
The perfectly symmetrical 'master eye' camera module and Hasselblad-style shutter button clearly pay tribute to the brand's classic camera aesthetics.
The hardware is insanely ambitious, but the first thing you notice holding it isn't elegance — it's size and weight.
It weighs about 239g and measures ~9.1mm thick — a genuinely big phone.
Some find the huge circular camera apparatus ugly, when we usually ask for less intrusive camera bumps.
Cameras
Oppo Find N5
A genuine periscope tele on a sub-9mm foldable is impressive, but the 8MP ultrawide and low-light performance keep it a notch below slab flagships.
Oppo fit a periscope-style telephoto into the slim body and all cameras (except ultrawide and selfie) shoot up to 4K 60fps — a strong foldable camera kit.
The ultrawide is the clear weak point: an 8MP sensor that is disappointing next to the high-resolution main and telephoto lenses.
Historically foldables have worse cameras than flagship slabs, and the Find N5 is no exception — though it's still one of the best camera setups on a foldable.
In a head-to-head, the Find N5 has the better overall main/wide camera experience that's closer to a regular phone, though the Galaxy edges it in low light.
Standard photos already look professionally shot, but Oppo refusing to support a double-press camera-launch gesture leads reviewers to use the camera less overall.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
The reason to buy it. A Hasselblad-tuned quad system with the most versatile zoom on any phone, a true 10x optical periscope and an optional 300mm Hasselblad teleconverter. Near-universally praised, with only minor sharpness and ultrawide caveats.
A 200MP main, 200MP 3x telephoto, 50MP 10x optical telephoto and 50MP ultrawide, all Hasselblad-branded — camera-first overkill in the best way.
Consistently great photos, sharpness and dynamic range with really good color calibration — this phone did basically everything right in the camera department; an incredibly well-rounded smartphone camera.
Is this the best camera phone ever built? — my new favorite camera phone and one of the best Android phones I've ever used.
Even after a direct shootout, still the best camera phone I've ever used.
Detail is very good, but sharpness remains a bit underwhelming on the main camera.
Performance
Oppo Find N5
A seven-core Snapdragon 8 Elite paired with 16GB RAM keeps it fast and cool — a deliberate efficiency-over-peak trade reviewers mostly endorse.
Runs a Snapdragon 8 Elite with 16GB LPDDR5X RAM (up to +12GB expansion) and 512GB storage as standard, with Wi-Fi 7 — no lag or slowdowns reported across months of use.
Owners importing from the OnePlus Open found the 7-core (vs 8-core) chip is only a ~5% performance difference but saves a lot on heat and battery.
Connectivity is excellent for a foldable — IR blaster, Wi-Fi 7 and DisplayPort video output over USB-C.
The thin chassis raised overheating concerns, but a year on, owners report the Snapdragon 8 Elite stays manageable even in the slim profile.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 puts it near the top of the benchmark charts, but sustained-load stability is mediocre and Oppo deliberately throttles early to control heat.
As expected, the Find X9 Ultra earns excellent benchmark scores near the top of the charts.
A 3D ultrasonic fingerprint scanner Oppo claims is 35% faster and 33% more reliable, plus vapor cooling to dissipate heat through the aluminium frame for better sustained performance.
3DMark returned ~7,530 best-loop and ~3,682 low-loop with only ~49% stability, and peak performance didn't last a minute — weak sustained behaviour.
Genshin Impact stayed consistently above 50fps and remained smooth even when throttling to ~30fps after ~16 minutes at 41.5°C, at under 4W power draw.
Honor of Kings averaged 144fps over 30 minutes at max settings; Genshin held max 60fps before stabilizing near 50fps.
Battery & Charging
Oppo Find N5
The 5,600mAh silicon-carbon cell is the Find N5's quiet superpower — it outlasts every contemporary foldable and charges at 80W wired / 50W wireless.
Notebookcheck measured it lasting over 30% longer than its predecessor, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Magic V3 and Galaxy Z Fold6 in early battery tests.
Six months in, the 5,600mAh silicon-carbon battery with Snapdragon 8 Elite consistently delivers 11–12 hours screen-on-time, up to 15–16 hours on content, ~10 hours when gaming.
80W SuperVOOC wired charges 0–100% in under 50 minutes, plus 50W AirVOOC wireless and reverse charging for other devices.
In a same-chipset endurance drain vs Honor Magic V5 and Galaxy Z Fold 7, the Find N5 finished second at 7h26m of mixed-app load, narrowly behind the Magic V5's 7h31m and well ahead of the Fold 7.
Camera-intensive days are the exception — heavy shooting burned ~71% of the battery for under 4 hours of screen-on-time, normal usage is far better.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
A genuine highlight: a 7,050mAh silicon-carbon cell that posts some of the best endurance numbers of any 2026 flagship, with fast 100W wired and 50W wireless charging.
Draws power from a 7,050mAh battery — a sizeable increase over the previous generation — with 100W SuperVOOC wired and 50W AirVOOC wireless charging.
Earned an active-use battery score of over 20 hours; with the SuperVOOC charger it went 0–75% in 30 minutes and to full in 45 minutes.
After ~10 hours of continuous use starting at 7am it still had 53% battery, regularly getting 8–9 hours of screen-on time and ~40% left after a 13-hour day.
A PCMark synthetic loop returned 15 hours 2 minutes, and 100W SuperVOOC charging took ~49–52 minutes (the charger isn't included).
With moderate usage you can easily expect more than 2 days of battery life — Oppo finally feels like a truly complete product.
Value vs Competition
Oppo Find N5
Critically the best book-style foldable on the market — its biggest cost isn't money, it's that most people will never be able to buy one.
'Without a doubt the best foldable I've ever used' — the recurring verdict, echoed by Android Central and Pocket-lint, undercut only by its limited availability.
Objectively the best book-style foldable on the market — the most well-rounded foldable, with cameras that can go toe-to-toe with flagships and a build that feels far more expensive than its price.
A year after launch, Android Headlines still concluded it is the best foldable on the market, citing the camera setup and the large 5,600mAh battery.
Not officially sold in the US; global units run roughly £1,300 or ~$1,595 for 256GB, with no local warranty — 'the best foldable most people will never get to use.'
Even US Apple-ecosystem reviewers concede it puts Apple 'on notice' — a stunning external display and Mac integration that an iPhone can't match.
Oppo Find X9 Ultra
Premium-priced and hard to buy in many markets, but reviewers broadly conclude it out-cameras the S26 Ultra and Pixel and edges the Vivo X300 Ultra on usability.
Its main compromises are the ~€1,699 price, large 236g body, occasional software concerns and limited availability in some markets.
It feels like Oppo wanted to make the camera first and just happened to also create the best Android phone you can get right now — though it won't win every year-end award.
The base Find X9 Ultra starts at 7,499 yuan in China — roughly £814 / ~$1,100 — but the heaviness and visual pressure are the first impression.
The closest rival is the Vivo X300 Ultra, but the X9 Ultra wins by having a more user-friendly OS.
The Hasselblad alliance delivers a phone that genuinely challenges the Galaxy S26 Ultra on cameras.
The ultrawide is probably the weakest part of the setup — with the first three cameras taking so much space, Oppo reused the Samsung GN5 sensor here.
Night-mode processing — color, contrast and exposure handling — is so much better than the Galaxy S26 Ultra's, and the ultrawide is now one of the best for detail preservation.
The optional 300mm Hasselblad teleconverter delivers ~13x (300mm) optical-feel zoom that retains real telephoto sharpness, extending to ~60x (1380mm).
Charges 0–100% in about 52 minutes on the official 80W charger in a head-to-head charge test.