Oppos Find N5 feels like the end game for foldable phones. Not because its make or break for a segment of the phone market that never quite took off like manufacturers hoped it would, but because I simply dont know where we go from here. Theres scarcely room to make the phone thinner without ditching USB-C entirely; battery life, performance, and even cameras are now on par with other flagship phones; and this time, Oppo even managed to fit wireless charging and water resistance in, too. This is what we were promised all along. Now what?8Verge ScoreOppo Find N5$1867$1867The GoodIts really, really thinExcellent battery lifeThe crease is almost invisibleThe BadFoldables are still fragileIts not launching in the US$1867 at OppoHow we rate and review productsHardware and camerasIts hard to see how the hardware improves much further. At 8.93mm thick when closed, this is the thinnest foldable in the world, shaving almost half a millimeter off the previous record holder, Honors Magic V3. Its just 4.21mm thin when its open, which proves theres still space to trim Huaweis trifold Mate XT runs to just 3.6mm but were close to at least one hard physical limit. Oppo told me it had to customize the USB-C port to fit it into a phone this thin. Theres only a hairs breadth of metal on the ports outer edge. If foldable phones are going to get meaningfully thinner, USB-C has to go first.1/4The USB-C port doesnt leave much room to get thinner.Every comparison you can make to other devices sounds impressive. When closed, this is less than a millimeter thicker than an iPhone 16 Pro Max or Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and weighs only 2g more than the Apple phone. Open, it boasts a bigger screen than an iPad Mini but is thinner and weighs less. Its lighter than any of the foldables you can buy in the US right now and is a full 3mm thinner than the Galaxy Z Fold 6. Its hard to overstate how astonishing the Find N5 feels and how few compromises there are to its design and build. I keep picking it up and marveling at the engineering.That applies to the 8.12-inch main display, too, where Oppo has worked to reduce the crease where the screen bends. Its still visible, but only when it catches the light just right, making it easier to ignore than to notice.Yes, theres still a crease. No, it doesnt matter.Foldables have historically been short on battery life. Surely this is where Oppo cut corners to keep the Find N5 trim, right? Not really. By using a second-generation version of its silicon-carbon battery technology, the company fit in a 5,600mAh capacity larger than any foldable youll find in the US. I spent yesterday visiting friends in an area with unreliable signal, taking plenty of photos along a countryside walk and using the large internal screen to plan an upcoming vacation together. The Find N5 was only down to 50 percent when I went to bed.The lack of wireless charging was one of the major complaints about the previous Find N3, which eventually launched in the US as the OnePlus Open. Thats been fixed, too, with support for 50W wireless charging if you use one of Oppos own AirVooc chargers and slower speeds on regular charging pads. Oppo is selling a magnetic charging case separately, too, but thats on its own standard the Find N5 isnt Qi2 Ready-certified.Battery life is probably helped by adopting a new seven-core version of Qualcomms Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, which sacrifices a little performance for better cooling and lower power consumption. It seems like a smart swap: I havent noticed the Find N5 stutter once in over a week.1/9The 8-megapixel ultrawide lens feels like a real afterthought, but the 50-megapixel main and 3x telephoto cameras would hold their own against most flagships. Dim lighting pulls the two apart a little, with the telephoto dropping detail and overcompensating on brightness, losing the warm, natural color balance the Hasselblad-tuned cameras tend to offer the rest of the time. These arent the best cameras youll find, but theyre at least comparable with the Pixel 9 Pro Folds, and I reckon the telephoto here has the edge over Googles.If theres one hardware area with room for improvement, its durability. Oppo boasts that this is the first foldable phone with an IPX9 water-resistance rating, but the X means theres no rating for protection from dust arguably much more important for a foldable phone. While the Find N5 feels remarkably sturdy for its size, foldables are inherently fragile. SoftwareOppo rightly received praise for its novel take on split screening when it launched the Find N3 a year and a half ago. Up to three apps can be opened on the main screen at once, either sharing the space equally or with one dropping off the edge, ready to be pulled back into focus with a tap. It remains the best approach to splitting up a large touchscreen, and Oppo avoided tinkering with it too much here. The only real change is that its quicker and easier to enable, accessible via a three-dot menu in the notification bar.1/3This is probably the best split-screen software on a foldable right now.The bigger new feature tries to fit even more apps onto the screen: Mac apps, to be specific. Oppo has expanded its existing O Plus Connect functionality, which previously supported file sharing between Oppo phones and iPhones or iPads, to support Macs. It does more than share files, though: once set up, you can use it to remotely control your Mac. You can turn the phone into a teeny-tiny laptop, with the Mac display mirrored to the top half and either a keyboard or imitation trackpad on the bottom. The phone and Mac dont need to be on the same network, though the Mac has to be online and awake to initiate the connection. This is the kind of functionality youd only ever use in a pinch, but it runs surprisingly smoothly, though you have to squint at the screen.The other software changes are predictably AI-centric. Artificial intelligence can improve your connectivity, translate your calls, and summarize your documents. Google Gemini is now the default assistant, and almost everything the camera does is in some way AI-enabled. None of it is especially exciting, and it feels like its only there because it has to be. Four years of Android version updates and six years of security support at least guarantee that theres a lot more AI to come.The biggest failure of the Find N5 might just be that it isnt launching in the US. While wed expected OnePlus to rebadge the phone as the Open 2, the company has confirmed it wont release a foldable this year. The UK and Europe will get the Find N5, but the States will not, reducing the pressure on Samsung and Google to put out hardware to match or to drop their prices, which is really the final frontier of foldables. The Oppo Find N5 has taken book-style foldable hardware about as far as it can go, but at $2,499 SGD (around $1,867), this is still priced for enthusiasts only. If foldables are going to stick around, they need to stop getting thinner and start getting cheaper.Photography by Dominic Preston / The VergeAgree to Continue: Oppo Find N5Every smart device now requires you to agree to a series of terms and conditions before you can use it contracts that no one actually reads. Its impossible for us to read and analyze every single one of these agreements. But we started counting exactly how many times you have to hit agree to use devices when we review them since these are agreements most people dont read and definitely cant negotiate.To use the Find N5, you must agree to:Oppos User AgreementOppos User Privacy Protection policyGoogles Terms of Service (including its Privacy Policy)Google Plays Terms of ServiceAutomatic installs (including from Google, Samsung, and your carrier)There are many optional agreements. Here are just a few:Sending diagnostic data to OppoOppo services, including network optimization, enhanced intelligent services, a user experience program, global search, App Market user agreement and privacy policy, and AI servicesGoogle Drive backup, location services, Wi-Fi scanning, diagnostic dataFinal tally: there are five mandatory agreements and at least 10 optional ones.See More: