This morning, Vale Gu, the Product Manager for the OnePlus Open, shared an announcement to the OnePlus community forums ahead of Oppo’s event next week. According to his post, the company has decided to reconsider “the timing and our next steps in foldable devices,” concluding that 2025 isn’t the right time to release an Open successor. Vale’s post specifically calls out the excitement over the Find N5 and the prospective launch of the Open 2 as a reason for sharing this news, aiming to lower the temperature on what’s become one of 2025’s most anticipated smartphones.
The dream of a OnePlus Open 2 might not be dead
But, at the very least, it’s delayed
There is, at the very least, a glimmer of hope for the future. Vale specifically states that OnePlus isn’t leaving foldables behind entirely, and that the company plans to utilize the technological leaps Oppo made with the Find N5 in a future product. Of course, it’s hard to take the company fully at its word when, at minimum, there will now be over two years between the original OnePlus Open — which launched in October 2023 — and any planned successor in 2026. With Samsung rumored to launch a sub-10mm foldable this summer, and, presumably, a Pixel 9 Pro Fold successor on the way for either late summer or early fall, whatever lead OnePlus had in this field is all but over.
Today’s community post also reassures current OnePlus Open users that support for their devices isn’t changing. The OnePlus Open also remains on sale through the company’s official storefront, as well as channels like Best Buy and Amazon, and without a new product to replace it, it’s difficult to imagine that changing any time soon.
While I remain hopeful that OnePlus will eventually return to the foldable space, it’s impossible to know what the future holds. In the meantime, the OnePlus 13 is a great — albeit non-folding — alternative for OxygenOS fans; it even has the very same Open Canvas multitasking first seen on the brand’s original (and, for now, only) foldable.
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The OnePlus Open was our favorite foldable of 2023 — and, frankly, for most of 2024. While it’s not the newest device on the block, it’s still a great alternative to Samsung and Google, and thanks to its age, you can pick one up for well under its original asking price.
