Monthly Archives: February 2025

The Xiaomi 15 Ultra is here and it kept up the core values that made its predecessor great! It's beautifully made, and it has the latest chipset, while adding a bigger battery and improving what was already a kickass camera system. The new Xiaomi Ultra naturally adopts the full-fledged Snapdragon 8 Elite and pairs it with 12GB or 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM. There's either 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB of UFS 4.1 storage. The new chipset provides up to 45% better performance and as much as 52% lower power consumption.

The OPPO Find N5 is thinner than any other foldable today, and that fact is evident once you unfold the device. At just 4.21mm, it is just a smidgen wider than the USB-C port, and using the tablet-sized 8.12-inch OLED inner panel is an absolute joy. The outer 6.62-inch OLED panel on the outside is among the best of any foldable, and thanks to the ultra-thin design, it feels like you're using a regular phone. You also get the best internals of any foldable, the best battery life, the best charging tech, and class-leading ingress protection. Oh, and the cameras are better than any other foldable I used until now. Combine all of that with fluid software and meaningful multitasking features, and it's no wonder than the Find N5 is now my favorite foldable phone.

In just ten days time, Oppo will launch the Find N5, the world’s thinnest book-style foldable. I just spent a few minutes with the device and what follows are my early impressions. Oppo is careful to use that “book-style” disclaimer, because the Find N5 isn’t quite as thin as Huawei’s trifold Mate XT, launched in China last year. Not when open that is, though the Find N5 is comfortably thinner than Huawei’s phone when closed, helped by only having two panels to fold, not three.