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This upcoming foldable Android phone will play nicely with your MacBook! (Updated)
Published onFebruary 17, 2025
- An OPPO representative posted a photo showing the MacOS desktop running on the Find N5 foldable.
- The company’s product head has now confirmed that the foldable phone will seamlessly connect to macOS PCs.
- The Find N5 will allow users to view and transfer files, run apps, complete tasks, and more on their Macs.
Update: February 17, 2025 (5:50 AM ET): OPPO has confirmed that the Find N5, which is launching globally in just days, will connect seamlessly to control Apple’s MacOS PCs. Pete Lau, Chief Product Officer at OPPO, posted an image confirming the feature on X. It looks like the Find N5 will allow users to view and transfer files, run apps, complete tasks, and more on their Macs. The feature should also be available globally now that Lau has posted about it outside of China.
Tech should make life easy and seamless. That’s why we’ve developed a system for the #OPPOFindN5 to remotely control your Mac—enabling real-time file viewing and editing, enhancing your productivity, and ensuring smoother interaction between devices.More details coming at our… pic.twitter.com/qO5mNHWIXD— Pete Lau (@PeteLau) February 17, 2025
Original article: February 11, 2025 (4:34 AM ET): We’ve seen a few Android phones embrace connectivity with Apple products in recent years. OPPO already offers an easier way to share files with Apple users, and it’s now bringing a new feature to the upcoming Find N5.
OPPO Color OS design director Chen Xi posted an image on Weibo showing a macOS desktop running on a partially folded Find N5. The top half of the foldable screen shows the MacOS desktop while the bottom half shows a virtual keyboard. The latter includes a command key and what seems to be a trackpad shortcut in the bottom right. Check out the image at the top of the page.
The Color OS representative added that this was part of the “O+ interconnection” feature (according to machine translation). The macOS desktop seems to be remotely streamed to the foldable rather than running natively. Furthermore, the exec notes that this feature is possible “regardless of distance,” suggesting the ability to control your Mac over the internet.
The OPPO Find N5 wouldn’t be the first Android phone to let you remotely control your macOS computer. Vivo’s high-end phones, including foldable phones, offer this capability in China via the OriginOS skin. After you install the vivo Office Kit app on your Apple computer, you can control your Mac via a wired or wireless connection.
There’s no word if OPPO will bring this feature to global versions of the Find N5. But we really hope the company launches this option outside China as it would be a handy feature for productivity in a pinch.
In any event, the new device is being marketed as the world’s thinnest book-style foldable and we got to check it out this week. The phone is confirmed to pack a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, 50W wireless charging, a triple rear camera system, and IPX6/IPX8/IP69 ratings. The phone is scheduled to launch globally on February 20, so all will be revealed next week.