Oppo has confirmed a February 20 world launch for its Discover N5, which the corporate claims is the world’s thinnest gadget within the foldable cellphone class. The cellphone is predicted to be re-branded because the OnePlus Open 2 within the US.
The Chinese language vendor has been teasing the gadget in the previous few weeks, touting its waterproofing and almost invisible show crease, and highlighting its thinness by evaluating it to Apple gadgets just like the iPad Professional, which is Apple’s thinnest gadget so far.
Oppo has shared a trailer of the Discover N5, calling it “Slim, but highly effective.” Stories recommend the Discover N5 is round 4mm thick. That beats the Honor Magic V3, which up till now was thought-about the thinnest foldable, which is 4.35mm thick when unfolded.
The video additionally reveals some further options, together with a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, an alert slider, and a cut-down digicam bump. The advert reveals the gadget in Cosmic Black and Misty White colours, however not the Twilight Purple shade that’s anticipated to be unique to the Chinese language market.
The smartphone market is at present fascinated with thinness. Samsung lately teased its super-thin Galaxy S25 Edge, following experiences that Apple is planning to launch a so-called iPhone 17 Air in September. The rumored gadget, which can change the Plus mannequin in its flagship lineup, is predicted to be Apple’s thinnest iPhone so far.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that the iPhone 17 Air can be 5.5mm thick at its thinnest level, which seemingly means that it’ll have a 5.5mm chassis with a thicker rear digicam bump space.
The thinnest iPhone we have seen thus far was the iPhone 6, which measured in at 6.9mm. iPhones obtained thicker with the iPhone X and past, as Apple elevated thickness to offer more room for the battery, digicam lenses, Face ID {hardware}, and extra.
