Just hours after Oppo unveiled its Find N3 (next to the smaller Find N3 Flip), it was stablemate OnePlus’ turn to pull the covers off its own foldable, the OnePlus Open. If you’re wondering why it looks so familiar, that’s because the Open is the exact same phone as the Find N3, albeit in the company’s signature faded green hue.
As such, you get the same flat-sided design and the same ginormous circular camera bump; more on that later. The form factor is also identical to the Find N3, meaning it’s around 20mm taller than the Find N2. This has allowed the fitment of a larger 6.3-inch AMOLED cover screen, with a resolution of 2,484×1,116 pixels (431ppi) and LTPO 3.0 technology that enables an adaptive refresh rate of between 10 and 120Hz.
Covering the display is a new Ceramic Guard (not Ceramic Shield, just in case Apple gets litigious) that OnePlus claims is 20% more impact-resistant than Gorilla Glass Victus. At just 5.8mm thick (11.7mm when folded), the Find N3…sorry, the Open is nearly 1.5 millimetres thinner than the Find N2, although it’s slightly heavier at 239g.
Flip the phone open and you’ll find a second 7.82-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a resolution of 2,440×2,268 pixels (426ppi) and a refresh rate of between 1 and 120Hz. Both inner and outer displays have up to 1,400 nits of brightness and a searing peak brightness of 2,800 nits; they also incorporate HDR10+ and Dolby Vision support.
Crucially, the taller aspect ratio means the Open, er, opens to the same portrait orientation as when closed. Coupled with the repositioning of the speakers (which, by the way, support Dolby Atmos) to the top and bottom of the phone, that means you get stereo sound in landscape mode whether the phone is opened or closed. This fixes the sole major gripe we had with the Find N3.
Like Oppo, OnePlus is touting an almost invisible crease (having seen the Find N3 Flip, I’m inclined to agree), supported by a beefed-up cobalt molybdenum alloy hinge and a carbon fibre base plate. The company claims the Open has been certified by TÜV Rheinland to be able to withstand up to 1,000,000 folds, said to be equal to more than ten years of use.
At the back sits a Hasselblad-branded triple camera setup, led by a 48MP main camera with a 1/1.43-inch Sony LYT-T808 sensor and an f/1.7 aperture. OnePlus says the stacked CMOS sensor allows in more light compared to a back-illuminated sensor. You also get a 48MP ultra-wide with a 1/2-inch Sony IMX581 sensor and an f/2.2 aperture, along with a 64MP telephoto camera with an f/2.6 aperture and 3x optical zoom.
All three cameras benefit from Hasselblad colour science and features a portrait mode and a super-narrow XPan mode developed with input from the German camera maker. A 32MP f/2.4 selfie camera is housed within the cover screen, while a 20MP f/2.2 unit sits on the inside.
Like the Find N3, the Open is powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip and comes with 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage. It too is juiced by a dual-cell 4,805mAh battery and supports up to 67W SuperVOOC fast charging that provides a full charge in 45 minutes; however, it does not support wireless charging. It also lacks any IP rating for dust and water resistance whatsoever.
The OnePlus Open ships with Android 13 skinned with OxygenOS 13.2, which among other things adds split-screen multitasking for up to three apps simultaneously. The Open Canvas feature extends the split-screen interface “beyond the display”, providing more screen real estate for each app. Other features include 5G, WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity, NFC, face unlock, a side fingerprint sensor and a USB 3.1 USB-C port. You still get OnePlus’ trademark alert slider, but then again, so does the Find N3.
Now, for the one question you’ve been dying to ask—if the OnePlus Open is all but identical to the Oppo Find N3, then what’s the point? Well, the Open is available everywhere the Find N3 is not, sold in North America, Europe and India priced at USD 1,699 (around RM8,096), EUR 1,799 (around RM9,063), GBP 1,599 (around RM9,257) and INR 134,999 (around RM7,741).
