OPPO Find N2: Next-gen foldable smartphone's specs and secret of improved portability allegedly revealed in new leaks

Pete Lau holds the positions of Chief Product Officer at OPPO, and is also the co-founder of its well-known off-shoot OnePlus. As such, the executive occasionally likes to enthuse about the innovations to be found in either company's upcoming mobile devices, even ahead of their launch on occasion.

The latest possible example of this are a handful of new Weibo posts thought to be associated with the upcoming successor to the inaugural Find N foldable smartphone. They include the fairly overt hint involving a new hinge.

The part is mostly obscured, yet clearly belongs to a device of the Find series due to some visible branding. Given that it is teased in conjunction with the caption "Finale" (Google translated), it could indeed be part of the Find N2 - or its supposed first-gen clamshell counterpart, perhaps.

Lau followed this with a much more subtle product-design Easter egg: a single screw. This may not seem very compelling on its own; however, add the part of its "story" that it is made of a titanium alloy and it becomes a recipe for speculation that it is also destined for the Find N2 as it will contribute to the device's alleged new weight-saving build-quality upgrades.

On that note, the Find N2 is projected to come powered by the nearly-new flagship-grade Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC, and a new device known as the OPPO PGU110 that has just surfaced on Geekbench may bear this out.

All the hallmarks of an 8+ Gen 1 leak are included in the new listing, the code-name taro and core configuration included - all except for the processor's 3.2GHz max clock. Therefore, the listing may be false - or OPPO has gone with the chip's rumored "low-frequency" version, possibly to manage the next-gen foldable's thermals.

Should this be the case, the rest of the so-called PGU110's specs are premium enough, at least: 12GB of RAM and an up-to-date Android 13-based OS. Then again, they may look less appealing should the resulting "N2" really wait until the second half of 2023 to make an official appearance.

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