I am going to be honest: I am furious. OnePlus just confirmed on its forums that there will be no OnePlus Open 2 this year, and possibly not ever, in the form we expected. The company that made the best book-style foldable in North America just walked away from the market.
What OnePlus actually said
OnePlus posted a brief statement on its community forums confirming what the rumor mill already knew: the Open 2 is not coming in 2025. The company cited “strategic realignment” and “shifting market priorities” without elaborating on what that means for the foldable category.
The original OnePlus Open launched in October 2023 as a book-style foldable with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, a 7.82-inch inner display, and the thinnest profile in its class at 11.7mm folded. It was also the most affordable book-style foldable in North America at $1,699, undercutting Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 5 by $100. I reviewed it. It was genuinely impressive.
Now it is an orphan product with no successor.
Why this matters beyond OnePlus
The lazy narrative writes itself: OnePlus leaves, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold is the only book-style foldable left in North America, Samsung wins. I think that narrative is wrong.
OnePlus was owned by BBK Electronics, the Chinese conglomerate that also owned OPPO, Vivo, Realme, and iQOO. The OnePlus Open was essentially a rebranded OPPO Find N3, sharing the same design, the same hinge, and most of the same hardware. BBK’s broader pullback from international foldable markets is the real story here. OPPO is not bringing the Find N5 to Europe. OnePlus is not bringing the Open 2 to North America. The entire BBK foldable portfolio is being pulled back to China.
That leaves a vacuum. Samsung has the Z Fold 6 at $1,899 and the Z Fold Special Edition in Korea at $2,025. Google has the Pixel 9 Pro Fold at $1,799. Honor has the Magic V3 in Europe. Motorola has the Razr+ flip-style foldable but no book-style device in the US market. The $1,500-$1,700 price band where OnePlus competed is now empty.
The Motorola opening
I keep coming back to the same thesis: Motorola should fill this gap. The company already has the Razr 50 Ultra selling globally and the ThinkPhone proving it can execute on premium Android. Motorola has the brand equity in North America. It has carrier relationships that BBK never secured. It has the Lenovo enterprise channel for B2B foldable adoption.
I want to be careful here: Motorola has not announced a book-style foldable. This is me reading the strategic logic, not reporting a product leak. But the market conditions are aligned. OnePlus exits. Samsung raises prices. Google focuses on the Pixel ecosystem. The mid-premium segment is wide open.
The question is whether Motorola sees the same opening I see. The company has the engineering talent. It has the supply chain access. The hinge technology exists, either licensed from Samsung or developed in-house. The software stack is mostly Google’s. The carrier distribution is already in place for the Razr line. The missing variable is whether Motorola’s leadership views foldables as a growth category worth the R&D investment or as a niche market not worth chasing.
What we are actually losing
Let me be clear about what we are losing. The OnePlus Open was not just another foldable. It was the only book-style foldable in North America priced under $1,700. It was the thinnest design in the category. It had the best-in-class hinge with no visible crease when unfolded. The software was clean OxygenOS with useful multitasking features rather than Samsung’s bloated One UI.
More importantly, it was the only foldable that felt like a normal phone when folded. The cover display was a usable 6.31-inch screen with a 20:9 aspect ratio, not the narrow 23.1:9 strip Samsung ships on the Z Fold line. You could use the Open as a regular phone without constantly needing to unfold it. That is the UX insight Samsung has never figured out.
OnePlus understood that a foldable needs to function as two complete devices, not as a phone with an awkward tablet mode bolted on. The Open nailed that balance. Now it is gone, and nobody else in the North American market is even trying to solve that problem.
RIP OnePlus Open 2. You deserved to exist. The market needed a premium foldable that did not cost $1,900 and did not compromise the cover screen UX. Motorola, if you are listening, the door is open.