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

CoverScreen OS is a piece of software program that makes an attempt to show the Oppo Find N2 Flip’s small 3.26-inch cover display into a “fully functional mini phone.” Crucially, this implies having the ability to entry the app drawer and launch “almost any app” on the cover display, massively growing the quantity you are able to do on the foldable flip cellphone with out having to open it up. The software program is downloadable from the Google Play Store.

CoverScreen OS has been accessible for awhile for the Samsung Z Flip 3 and 4. In truth, my colleague Allison tried it out on the Z Flip 4 final August. But whereas the app’s usefulness was restricted 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 prefer it has a lot extra potential. 

When I reviewed the Find N2 Flip final month, I discovered myself getting annoyed by the restricted performance of its cover display regardless of being greater than the cover display on Samsung’s flip telephones. In apply I felt Oppo didn’t benefit from this bigger display actual property. The Find N2 Flip will solely display the topic traces and never the physique textual content of emails while you get a notification, for instance, or solely provide a few hours of climate forecasts quite than the entire day.

CoverScreen OS’s help for the Find N2 Flip is described as “experimental” and “initial” for now, however it has huge ambitions. As properly as the flexibility to launch full apps, it additionally goals to allow you to add widgets designed for the usual residence display. There’s help for a full Qwerty keyboard, voice typing, or an old style T9 keyboard. In a video demonstration, the developer demonstrates opening YouTube after which a internet browser from the app drawer, after which typing into a textual content field utilizing an onscreen keyboard.

Plus, in keeping with the app’s developer, CoverScreen OS nonetheless leaves you ready to make use of the Oppo Find N2 Flip’s default cover display performance like system fast toggles and widgets. Just be warned that whereas it’s reportedly secure on Samsung’s flip telephones, the app is a first preview model and nonetheless “requires some heavy sustained development effort to deliver a feature complete version,” in keeping with its builders.

If you’d like to provide CoverScreen OS a attempt, you’ll be able to obtain it now over on the Google Play Store.