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Update: This sale is still ongoing. However, it is now also $1,499 over at Amazon.
The OnePlus Open is by far the best foldable of 2023, and right now, you can pick it up from Best Buy for just $1,399 without having to do a trade-in.
Currently, it is on sale for $1,499, which is $200 off. But if you activate it today on AT&T or Verizon, you can get another $100 off, knocking it down to $1,399. That is a pretty incredible deal. Because this is the 16GB/512GB variant – also the only variant of the Open, so it’s far cheaper than the Galaxy Z Fold 5, which has a regular price of $1,919 for that RAM/Storage variant.
I’ve been using the OnePlus Open for the past four months, well ahead of when the company announced the phone. And I still can’t put it down. It’s just that good. OnePlus nailed the screen sizes and brightness here. It gives us an 18:9 aspect ratio on the front display, so you don’t need to open the phone every time you want to use it. That also means that you can use two apps side-by-side on the inner display at a regular app size. There’s also Open Canvas, which does a good job with multi-tasking and lets you use more screen real estate than you actually have.
The displays are also incredibly bright at 2,800 nits of peak brightness. So that problem of not being able to see foldable displays in the sun, that’s not a problem here.
On top of that, OnePlus included an incredible camera setup on this phone. It’s been the first time that I have routinely grabbed a phone that wasn’t a Pixel to take photos. That’s really saying a lot.
Finally, we can’t forget about the rest of the specs, which are pretty high-end for the end of 2023. This includes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage onboard, along with a 4,800mAh capacity battery, which is quite impressive for a foldable, especially one that is this light.
You can pick this up at Best Buy today, but this sale won’t last long, so you’d better be quick.