5 Reasons why OPPO Find N5 Destroys the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6

The OPPO Find N5 is the hot new foldable in the market. OPPO announced this phone very recently in Singapore, and it managed to get a lot of attention in the process. There’s a good reason for that. The OPPO Find N5’s design is the main attraction, but this phone has a lot going for it in general. It’s the thinnest (book-style) foldable in the world, and the feeling you get while using it is unreal, having in mind this phone folds.

We’ve already published our OPPO Find N5 review on the site, in case you’re interested. We also have a ton of additional OPPO Find N5 information for you to check out. With that being said, it’s always interesting to see how a phone like this stacks up against the competition. The first foldable that comes to mind is, of course, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6. Well, comparing these is actually a rather odd experience.

The OPPO Find N5 really does seem to be several generations ahead in terms of the design. That’s not the only area where we think OPPO simply outclassed Samsung. In this article, we’ll lay out 5 areas in which the OPPO Find N5 basically destroys the Galaxy Z Fold 6. So, let’s get to it.

1. Thinner & lighter

The OPPO Find N5 is both thinner and lighter than the Galaxy Z Fold 6, and the difference is quite substantial. In fact, the Galaxy Z Fold 6 does feel like a tank in the hand next to the OPPO Find N5. Using the OPPO Find N5 feels like you’re using a regular slab phone in your hand, not a foldable. The same cannot be said for the Galaxy Z Fold 6, not at all. That device feels like a foldable all the way through.

You will be able to truly appreciate what OPPO did here only if you actually handle the device. Though, granted, even on paper, this considerable difference can be seen. The OPPO Find N5 is only 8.93mm thick when folded, and 4.21mm thick when unfolded. Samsung’s foldable, on the other hand, measures 12.1mm when folded, and 5.6mm when unfolded. When the devices are folded, that’s when the enormous difference can be easily noticed.

On top of all this, the OPPO Find N5 is also lighter than the Galaxy Z Fold 6. It weighs 229 grams compared to 239 grams of the Fold 6. This difference is not all that bit, but in combination with the thickness difference, the Galaxy Z Fold 6 really does feel notably heavier in the hand. It’s simply a completely different experience handling these two phones.

2. More battery capacity & better battery life

Despite the fact the OPPO Find N5 is paper thin for a foldable, OPPO managed to squeeze in a 5,600mAh battery on the inside. The company used a silicon-carbon battery in order to make that happen. The Galaxy Z Fold 6, on the flip side, has a 4,400mAh Li-Ion battery, which seems very modest in comparison. Granted, the Fold 6 also has a bit smaller displays, but still, this is a considerable difference.

Even by looking at the battery capacity itself, you’d expect that the OPPO Find N5 delivers battery life, and that’s the case. The difference is notable. Not that the Galaxy Z Fold 6 has bad battery life, but it’s not on the same level as what the OPPO Find N5 offers. Just to give you an idea, we’ve managed to cross 10 hours of screen-on-time before the phone died, several times, and at that point, the phone was used well over a full day.

With such usage, we’ve used the main display about a third of the time, roughly. The Galaxy Z Fold 6 was able to reach the 7-hour screen-on-time level for us, but not much more than that. Also, that was all within a day, not well over a day. OPPO’s foldable has a clear advantage in the battery life department.

3. Faster charging, both wired & wireless

In addition to having much more battery capacity, the OPPO Find N5 also offers faster wired and wireless charging than the Galaxy Z Fold 6. It supports 80W wired and 50W wireless charging. OPPO actually had to re-engineer the wireless charging coil for this phone, to make it thinner. If we consider that its predecessor, the OPPO Find N3, did not offer wireless charging at all, this is quite a feat.

The Galaxy Z Fold 6, in case you’re wondering, supports 25W wired and 15W wireless charging. Needless to say, it charges considerably slower than the OPPO Find N5. While the OPPO Find N5 can fully charge in around 50 minutes, it takes the Galaxy Z Fold 6 almost an hour and a half for a full charge.

To make this all the more jarring, the OPPO Find N5 also includes an 80W charging brick in the retail box. That’s not something we can say for the Galaxy Z Fold 6, as Samsung’s foldable does not come with a charger at all. You’ll need to buy one separately in case you don’t have it at home.

4. Superior telephoto camera

While we did prefer shots we took with the OPPO Find N5’s main camera vs the Galaxy Z Fold 6, the telephoto camera is the one that is worth emphasizing here. The OPPO Find N5 includes a 50-megapixel periscope telemacro camera, with a 1/2.75-inch sensor size and 3x optical zoom. Hasselblad’s color tuning is also a part of the camera experience on this smartphone, by the way.

The Galaxy Z Fold 6 comes with a regular telephoto camera. It includes a 10-megapixel telephoto unit with a 1/3.94-inch sensor size and 3x optical zoom. It’s not even a periscope telephoto unit, let alone a telemacro camera. You won’t be taking macro photos with this camera, and when compared with the OPPO Find N5’s offering, it simply doesn’t stack up.

While the OPPO Find N5’s periscope telephoto camera is not the best on the market, it surely does eclipse the Galaxy Z Fold 6’s. It does a better job in both good and bad lighting conditions and provides sharper photos. Those pictures are usually better in terms of overall balance, and that camera also manages to pull out more details from the shadows. On top of that, photos with higher zoom ranges are way better on the OPPO Find N5.

5. Boundless View

With the OPPO Find N3 back in 2023, OPPO presented Boundless View to the public. It’s the company’s multitasking implementation for its foldables and tablets. It allows you to run three apps on the screen, basically, and jump between them as you see fit. It’s not just the fact that three apps are on the screen, it’s the way OPPO implemented that. They adapt based on their orientation and move out of the way when they’re not in active use.

That feature did get tweaked, and on the OPPO Find N5 it’s even more enjoyable to use. The premise is still the same, but it just works even better now. This makes it very easy to do three things at once without firing up the overview menu or something like that.

For example, you can type a message, and then quickly tap on a rectangle on the screen where your Internet browser is minimized. From there, your notes are only a tap away in the other minimized rectangle, and so on. You can set up anything this way, any three apps that you want to use. The Galaxy Z Fold 6 does not have a feature like this, all you have is split screen.