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So what are we expecting to debut today?
Well, Oppo has been a bit coy, beyond telling us that the ‘Oppo Find X5 series’ is coming – that suggests there will be multiple phones, something we can also tell from pictures that have been shown, though the devices look really similar.
Beyond that, we’re not too sure what else is coming, but the simple answer might be ‘nothing’. We already know that Oppo will exhibit at annual tech conference MWC 2022, which kicks off in just four days, so perhaps it’ll save its other announcements for then.
So, we hear you asking, why’s this not the Find X4? Wasn’t the last one the Find X3? (Pictured above).
Well, it was, but Chinese tech companies sometimes skip the name ‘4’ for their fourth-generation devices, as in the country the number sounds very similar to the word ‘death’ so it’s considered lucky. Some buildings in the country skip Floor 4, which we totally understand, as we certainly wouldn’t want to live or work on ‘Floor Death’.
Interestingly, one company that has eschewed this superstition is Oppo itself, which launched the Oppo Reno 4 a couple of years back. But the company has confirmed that the new devices are the X5s, so it’s definitely skipping X4/
Welcome to TechRadar’s Oppo Find X5 live blog – we’re just settling in for the day, but will be updating this post a few times in the next two-and-a-bit hours before the event kicks off.
