OPPO Find N6 review: The future unfolds

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold gets better with every iteration by most metrics bar enthusiasm, so it’s little shock that OPPO has moved to take advantage on that complacency in recent years. Although the Chinese manufacturer doesn’t release foldable smartphones as frequently as its South Korean counterpart does, that slower burn approach to the category typically translates into devices that feel laser targeted to take advantage of the areas where its biggest competitors fall short. 

The OPPO Find N6 fits that bill to a tee. Although it’ll likely be hard to reconcile among budget-conscious buyers, those who can afford a premium foldable smartphone like this one aren’t likely to come away disappointed with what it delivers.

Picking up where the Find N5 left off, the new OPPO Find N6 is a few grams lighter but a dead-ringer nonetheless. The newer handset boasts contoured edges and a 6.62-inch LTPO OLED cover display. This outer screen has a 120Hz refresh rate, 431 pixels per inch but a peak brightness of 3,600 nits. 

Turn the page, and you’ll find the main event. The OPPO Find N6 features a 8.12-inch LTPO OLED display with an even higher 441-pixels-per-inch and 2,500 nits of peak brightness. 

At a glance, this premium handset is nice to hold and easy on the eyes. What’s more, it incorporates what OPPO are billing as a “zero-feel” crease. Essentially, the manufacturer has 3D printing to smooth out the standard variability in the surface that sits underneath the screen. The upper-most layer of the screen has also been swapped out for a new auto-smoothing flex glass that offers greater shape recovery and deformation resistance. It’s hard to say which tweak adds more, but the final result of this re-engineering is that OPPO have cracked down on the crinkle has been a persistent thorn in the sides of foldable fans since the category’s inception. 

As the name suggests, there is technically a very faint wrinkle that remains. Even if you can’t feel it, all it takes is the right lighting environment to make the delineation between the left and right halves of the display a little more visible. OPPO didn’t call it the zero-feel crease by accident. If it could get away with calling it the zero-see crease, I doubt the manufacturer would hesitate to do so. 

In any case, this divide is still technically impressive in a way that separates the Find N6 from its competition even if it doesn’t do much to change the everyday experience. 

The OPPO Find N6 also comes accompanied by the brand's latest stab at an Apple Pencil-like stylus. Similar to Samsung's S-Pen, the OPPO AI Pen offers the standard 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity and can be used as a remote control for the camera on the Find N6. When not in use, the Bluetooth accessory can be stored within the official case for the device and charges using reverse wireless charging. It’s good for what it is, even if most of the time it’s acts as a reminder of why so few phones bother to include styli nowadays.

For as much the potential of foldable form-factors is tied up in the idea of turning those extra pixels into productivity, the premium smartphone market really does hinge on how good the camera is. 

Fortunately, on that front, the Find N6 is built to impress. The back of the device brings to bear an upgraded version of the camera setup seen on the OPPO Find N5. The 8MP selfie and cover cameras on those devices have been traded out for a pair of 20MP sensors. Meanwhile, the 8MP ultrawide lens on the back has been upgraded to match the 50MP telephoto lens. Last but far from least, the 50MP main sensor has been upgraded to a 200MP one. 

On paper, the spec sheet here promises to put the OPPO Find N6 among the best in the market when it comes to camera performance – foldable screen or no. In practice, we came away plenty impressed with the results it delivered. The litany of lenses here offered ample flexibility and low-light performance rarely let me down when it came to the finer details. 

Under the hood, the OPPO Find N6 is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, 16GB of RAM and a 6,000mAh battery. As usual, the device features 80W fast charging via VOOC and 50W wireless charging via OPPO’s AirVOOC charging tech. Cutting edge technology is to be expected when it comes to this particular manufacturer but, given the asking price involved, it’s welcome to see here nevertheless.

In practice, the OPPO Find N6 delivered exactly the calibre of moment-to-moment performance you would expect given the more-than-modest amount of memory and the Snapdragon silicon involved. Apps loaded fast, and there were no obvious issues or glitches when it came to multitasking. 

The cover display felt comfortable and accommodating to handle in a pinch. Meanwhile, the larger one found on the inside of the OPPO Find N6 was better suited for multi-tasking and gaming. Titles like Diablo Immortal and Destiny Rising ran smoothly and without issue. An iPad might be able to offer better performance here, but as traditional tablets have gotten bigger the extra grams have begun to eat into their appeal as on-the-go gaming devices. Foldables like the OPPO Find N6 err in the other direction, and benefit accordingly.

In addition to the "boundless" view introduced in earlier incarnations, the Fold N6 brings with it support for draggable windows. Once opened, you can tap a drop-down option to turn any Android app into a window. This can be dragged around the screen as you’d expect, with up to four windows available at a given time. 

Last but not least, let's talk about the super-slim silicon carbon battery inside the OPPO Find N6. In practice, it delivered a cruisey two days of battery life on a single charge. 

Burned down via streaming video from YouTube over Wi-Fi, the OPPO Find N6 took 16 hours and 42 minutes to go from a full charge to zero. That’s not great. While OPPO’s strengths have typically been more to do with how quickly its devices can charge back upwards, the power consumption that comes with a second larger display feels reflected in the disparity between the performance here and a more conventional premium device like the Galaxy S26 Ultra. 

If you’re planning to spend more time looking at the cover display, I think you’ll fare better. Even so, if that is the case then it might be worth rethinking why you’re so keen to spend this much on your next smartphone.