App turns Oppo’s Find N2 Flip cover display into a ‘fully functional mini phone’

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App turns
oppo收購oppo’s Find N2 Flip cover display into a ‘fully functional mini phone’

App turns
oppo收購oppo’s Find N2 Flip cover display into a ‘fully functional mini phone’

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CoverScreen OS was originally designed for Samsung’s flip foldables, but its latest version adds ‘experimental initial support’ for
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Images show an app drawer, browser, and YouTube running on the Find N2 Flip’s cover display.
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CoverScreen OS is a piece of software that attempts to turn the
oppo收購oppo Find N2 Flip’s small 3.26-inch cover display into a “fully functional mini phone.” Crucially, this means being able to access the app drawer and launch “almost any app” on the cover screen, massively increasing the amount you can do on the foldable flip phone without having to open it up. The software is downloadable from the Google Play Store.

CoverScreen OS has been available for awhile for the Samsung Z Flip 3 and 4. In fact, my colleague Allison tried it out on the Z Flip 4 last August. But while the app’s usefulness was limited on Samsung’s tiny 1.9-inch cover display, the Find N2 Flip’s portrait-oriented 3.26-inch, 720 x 382 cover display feels like it has a lot more potential. 

When I reviewed the Find N2 Flip last month, I found myself getting frustrated by the limited functionality of its cover display despite being bigger than the cover display on Samsung’s flip phones. In practice I felt
oppo收購oppo didn’t make the most of this larger screen real estate. The Find N2 Flip will only display the subject lines and not the body text of emails when you get a notification, for example, or only offer a few hours of weather forecasts rather than the whole day.


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You can type using either a T9 or full Qwerty keyboard.
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CoverScreen OS’s support for the Find N2 Flip is described as “experimental” and “initial” for now, but it has big ambitions. As well as the ability to launch full apps, it also aims to let you add widgets designed for the standard home screen. There’s support for a full Qwerty keyboard, voice typing, or an old-fashioned T9 keyboard. In a video demonstration, the developer demonstrates opening YouTube and then a web browser from the app drawer, and then typing into a text box using an onscreen keyboard.

Plus, according to the app’s developer, CoverScreen OS still leaves you able to use the
oppo收購oppo Find N2 Flip’s default cover display functionality like system quick toggles and widgets. Just be warned that while it’s reportedly stable on Samsung’s flip phones, the app is a first preview version and still “requires some heavy sustained development effort to deliver a feature complete version,” according to its developers.

If you’d like to give CoverScreen OS a try, you can download it now over on the Google Play Store.


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▲台灣智慧手機市場量縮價揚,蘋果仍以45%的市占銷售率奪冠。(圖/傑昇通信)

記者陳俐穎/綜合報導

台灣手機市場2023年12月銷售市占TOP 5出爐,手機銷售量市佔率排名,依舊由蘋果拿下銷售冠軍,但比起11月的48.8%下跌至45%,第二名的三星則是22.2%,第三至第五名的品牌依序為
oppo收購oppo(10.7%)、vivo(6.7%)及Redmi(5.6%)。

本月台灣手機市場僅賣出38.2萬台,比起12月的44.6萬台下降14%,甚至也比2022年同期的39.9再短少4%,銷量未因聖誕節等年末促銷降價增加,反而被國外旅遊、年貨採辦、尾牙抽獎、等待年終入帳等因素影響買氣。

傑昇通信分析,買氣居高不下的蘋果iPhone,也難敵全球通膨加劇、消費者換機需求低迷、通路及線上平台大打價格戰及供應鏈問題,使得台灣12月手機市場呈現買氣低迷、量縮價揚;傑昇通信認為,農曆年前各通路平台促銷活動持續,依照過往在年前拿到年終補貼,或是幫長輩換機等等加成,仍有助於整體手機市場銷售量回升。

從品牌市占來看,傑昇通信坦言,即便蘋果依舊拿下絕大部份的銷售量,佔比達45%,而75.8%的銷售額也比11月的76.9%小幅下跌,銷售量跟銷售額雙雙跌逾兩成,也是前五大品牌中下降最多的;前三名單機排名同上月,還是台灣用戶喜愛的iPhone 15 Pro Max及iPhone 15 Pro的256GB版本,以及iPhone 15(128GB),第二名的單機iPhone 15 Pro(256GB)銷量更大減三成下跌最多。

然而整體手機市場衰退,市占率22.2%第二名的三星,較上月22.6%相比,銷售量小跌16%,銷售額也受到影響下滑24%;以A系列中低階機型橫掃台灣市場的三星,榜上前三名機型銷量一樣被波及,冠亞軍Galaxy A54(8GB/256GB)及A14(4GB/64GB)平均掉兩成左右,僅第三名的S23 Ultra(12GB/256GB)逆勢成長7%,傑昇通信推測與新機S24系列即將上市,通路祭出不少優惠,導致加速S23 Ultra庫存去化,進而催生銷量。

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