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7699 yuan! OPPO Find N wants to popularize folding screen mobile phones: netizens are screaming

It has been three years since the first folding screen mobile phone entered the market, but the current folding screen mobile phone is still a very small digital product, which is called “the toy of the rich” by many netizens.

Most of the folding screen phones on the market are expensive, and the few products with excellent product strength can be called “sky prices”, such as the two most popular folding screen phones Huawei Mate X2 and Samsung Galaxy The price of Z Fold 3 is 10,000 yuan.

Although folding screen mobile phones may seem cool, the excessively high price always keeps ordinary consumers out. If you want to truly make folding screen mobile phones into the mass consumer market, lowering the threshold is a top priority.

7699 yuan! OPPO Find N wants to popularize folding screen mobile phones: netizens are screaming

OPPO recently released a folding screen mobile phone Find N, priced at only 7699 yuan, the same level as the price of conventional flagship phones, greatly reducing the threshold for ordinary consumers to start a folding screen mobile phone, many netizens called “true fragrance.”

So, does the lower price mean that folding screen phones will finally become popular? Will it replace conventional smartphones?

The author believes that after solving a series of “hard injuries” and drastically reduced prices, the folding screen mobile phone is likely to become the mainstream smartphone form in the next period of time, but it will not completely replace the conventional form of smartphones, but will be smarter than the conventional form of smartphones. Mobile phones go hand in hand.

First of all, if folding screen mobile phones want to be more popular, reducing prices is crucial, but it is also necessary to focus on improving the user experience of the product.

Folding screen phones currently on the market generally have three major flaws: poor durability, obvious creases, and less software adaptation. Let’s see if OPPO Find N has solved these flaws.

The durability of the folding screen mobile phone is poor, which is mainly reflected in the hinge and the screen, and the folding screen mobile phone can be bent mainly depends on these two aspects.

Conventional smartphones cannot be bent because their flexible OLED panels are also covered with a layer of “rigid glass”, and folding screen phones need to replace this layer of “rigid glass” with CPI film (colorless polyimide) or UTG ( Ultra-thin glass).

But unfortunately, the hardness of these two materials is far less than that of “rigid glass.” The Mohs hardness level is only about 2, and it is easy to leave irreversible marks on them.

At present, no flexible bending material with a higher hardness level has been found as an alternative, so to protect the folding screen, you have to start with the hinge.

At present, the common hinge structure on the market is a U-shaped hinge, followed by a drop-shaped hinge.

The representative of the U-shaped hinge is Samsung’s Fold series. The disadvantage of this hinge is obvious. After the folding screen phone is closed, the inner screen cannot fit tightly, and there will be a large gap in the middle, which is easy to mix into hard objects Injury screen shows.

Moreover, with the U-shaped hinge design, the creases shown on the screen will be more obvious, which affects the aesthetics.

7699 yuan! OPPO Find N wants to popularize folding screen mobile phones: netizens are screaming

OPPO FInd N actually uses a drop-shaped hinge similar to that of Huawei Mate X2. The structure is more complicated and the cost is higher. However, the advantage is that the inner screen can be more closely attached after folding, and the gap is smaller, which can play a role. Better protection effect, in addition, the crease is shallower, and the aesthetics is guaranteed.

After solving the durability and crease problems, the last level is software adaptation. To see whether a folding screen mobile phone is practical, it mainly depends on whether its software adaptation is intentional.

7699 yuan! OPPO Find N wants to popularize folding screen mobile phones: netizens are screaming

For example, after OPPO Find N is unfolded, it can not only act as a tablet, but also rely on its excellent precision vertebral hinge structure to freely control the opening and closing angle, creating a new use form.

OPPO calls it the “free hover” function. When the unfolding angle of the folding screen is greater than or equal to 90°, you can use the upper part of the screen to display video images, while the lower screen becomes a touchpad to complete operations such as dragging the progress bar, increasing or decreasing the volume.

In addition, OPPO has also cooperated with a large number of third-party APPs, specifically launching a customized version of the folding screen mobile phone APP.

At the same time, OPPO also introduced a gravity plan to attract more software developers to enter the large-screen ecosystem and make large-screen adaptations for more applications. This significance can be said to be very significant, and it can even be said to accelerate the development of the application ecology of folding screen mobile phones.

From the perspective of software adaptation, OPPO has indeed done a lot of homework.

This confirms the practicality of OPPO Find N, so with its exquisite, unique appearance and conscience price starting at RMB 7,699, this folding screen phone has a very high probability of success, and it will attract a large number of new users to touch the folding screen. Screen mobile phones to accelerate market penetration.

However, I still feel that folding screen mobile phones will not replace conventional mobile phones. Folding screen phones may be favored by business people, because these people use internal screens much more frequently than other users.

After all, the large screen can display more information and is more efficient, while the small screen mainly meets other daily needs. This is the so-called “work while living”.

Therefore, the author believes that it is impossible for everyone to accept folding screen phones. Conventional smartphones still have irreplaceable advantages.

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