Oppo has teased its first foldable smartphone practically three years after it unveiled a prototype system. The Find N appears like a tool alongside the strains of Samsung’s Galaxy Fold lineup, created after “four years of intense R&D and six generations of prototypes,” Oppo mentioned in a press release. The launch is ready to happen at Oppo Inno Day on December fifteenth. 

Oppo did not reveal any processor, show or different specs of the Find N, aside from exhibiting a picture and video. It did promise a “beautiful” system that feels good within the hand, and will likely be easy to make use of in each the open and closed positions. It additionally mentioned that it has solved any display screen creasing and sturdiness points inherent in folding smartphones. 

The firm greatest identified for folding smartphones is Samsung, with each the Fold and Flip gadgets. It took Samsung three generations to work out main kinks within the Fold lineup, however the newest Fold 3 mannequin “still needs work,” we mentioned in our Engadget overview. Oppo has performed issues otherwise by ready to launch its first mannequin, presumably till it felt it had ironed out any main points. 

On prime of the Find N, Oppo is set to reveal different merchandise, having teased a “cutting-edge” neural processing unit (NPU) and sensible glasses. The latter will presumably succeed final 12 months’s Oppo AR Glass 2021, developer-only Wayfarer-type glasses with 0.71-inch OLED panels meant to be linked to Android gadgets through a USB cable. It teased the brand new mannequin with a “light vs. light” tagline, in order that they is perhaps light-weight fashions aimed shoppers, not simply builders. We’ll quickly discover out, as Oppo Inno Day runs from December 14-15.