Oppo Find N2 Flip initial review: 24 hours with the latest foldable dream machine

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For the past couple of years, the foldable smartphone market has been slowly picking up steam, with Samsung driving flexible phones into mainstream attention. Outside of China it's had everything pretty much its own way, with few competitors offering alternatives to its Z Fold and Z Flip lines. In 2022 that started to shift, with Motorola and — now — Oppo gatecrashing the party with quite different takes on the flexible form factors.

We've had our hands on the Find N2 Flip, Oppo's first clamshell foldable, to see if it's got what it takes to challenge in this market.

One of the great things about the foldable phone market is that — due to differing approaches to displays and hinges — each different flip phone we've seen so far is quite different to the other. We'll get a little more in-depth on the cover display shortly, but its placement on the front cover means you're unlikely to confuse this with any other foldable clamshell smartphone.

With the screen off, almost half of the available surface area of that front cover is taken up by a black rectangle, with two vertically-stacked protruding camera lenses near the edge. Look at it from the sides, and you might just confuse it with the Galaxy Z Flip, especially if you're looking at the purple unit we're reviewing. It's got light purple (or lilac) glass on the front and back, with polished, purple aluminium edges all the way around the sides.

The glossy glass on the outside gives it quite a slippery feel, but there is another option: Astral Black. That version has a similar nano-textured matte glass as other phones we've seen from Oppo and OnePlus recently, so if you're worried about your phone slipping off things, out of pockets or your hand, that's the one to go for.

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