{"id":224551,"date":"2026-03-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/chinas-oppo-doubles-down-on-foldable-smartphones-as-potential-apple-entry-looms\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:35:09","slug":"chinas-oppo-doubles-down-on-foldable-smartphones-as-potential-apple-entry-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/chinas-oppo-doubles-down-on-foldable-smartphones-as-potential-apple-entry-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Oppo doubles down on foldable smartphones as potential Apple entry looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3346829\/chinas-oppo-doubles-down-foldable-smartphones-potential-apple-entry-looms\">China\u2019s Oppo doubles down on foldable smartphones as potential Apple entry looms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3346829\/chinas-oppo-doubles-down-foldable-smartphones-potential-apple-entry-looms\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3346829\/chinas-oppo-doubles-down-foldable-smartphones-potential-apple-entry-looms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese smartphone maker Oppo is mounting a fresh challenge in the foldable handset market after launching the latest product in its Find N series, as the industry faces rising <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">memory prices<\/span> and anticipation builds around <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Apple<\/span>\u2019s foldable iPhone.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Find N6, launched globally on Tuesday, featured upgraded hinge technology designed to make the crease on the foldable screen \u201cvirtually imperceptible\u201d, according to the company.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhile foldables offer the advantage of a larger display, the crease has remained one of the primary concerns for users,\u201d said Pete Lau, senior vice-president and chief product officer at Oppo. \u201cIt\u2019s a challenge Oppo has sought to solve ever since the original Find N.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The handset has a thickness of just 8.93mm (0.35 inches) when folded and weighs 225 grams (7.9 ounces). It runs on Qualcomm\u2019s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform, supporting artificial intelligence capabilities and multitasking performance.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Oppo\u2019s latest push into the premium segment comes as smartphone makers grapple with surging component costs amid a memory shortage. The memory crunch has threatened to squeeze profit margins and forced companies to raise prices.<\/p>\n<p>Find N6 is 8.93mm thick when folded and weighs 225 grams. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last week, Oppo announced price increases of 300 yuan (US$44) to 500 yuan on some handsets \u201cin the face of rising costs for multiple key smartphone components including high-speed memory hardware\u201d. The new prices took effect on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3346829\/chinas-oppo-doubles-down-foldable-smartphones-potential-apple-entry-looms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Oppo doubles down on foldable smartphones as potential Apple entry looms https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3346829\/chinas-oppo-doubles-down-foldable-smartphones-potential-apple-entry-looms Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/17\/ee1429be-1f01-43f2-bd90-3dea511ba715_f49f11bf.jpg?itok=i3kDumw7&v=1773719191","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224553,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224551\/revisions\/224553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}