The Find N6 is My Favorite and Best Phone I've Ever Had, and I Have to Return it For One Reason.
Phone As A Key. I have always loved the idea of fold-ables. For the last decade I usually don't keep phones for more than a year, however that changed with the Flip 4, I loved that phone and had it for 3 years before switching back to a boring slab phone. Tried the Fold 7 as the concept is great, but I HATE Samsungs design choice with the remote style size, to me it makes no sense. My perfect foldable would be one that is the same (or near) size as a regular slab phone, that just happens to open up to an almost tablet size. The Fold 7's cover screen is just a bad experience and almost makes no sense to even include it at that point. Also their decision to keep the inner camera just slightly of center instead of the corner is wild. It was returned in two days, and I couldn't figure out how it was a better experience than just a regular slab phone.
The Oppo Find N6. Finally a folding phone that has a cover screen almost the same size and aspect ratio of a regular slab, advanced batteries, basically no crease, great cameras for a folding phone, and pen support. Checked all my boxes and more, so I decided to buy the global version and try it out. I expected the software (Color OS) to be much worse than Samsung (Coming from and S25+), however I was pleasantly supprised that I almost liked it even more than One UI. I won't get into the details too much here, One UI still does some things better, but overall Color OS was definetly something I could get used to.
Disaster. 1 week into use, I am in love, but there is one problem. My truck does not seem to unlock by itself when I get close. I get into the truck and I am waiting 20-30 seconds for it to recognize, yes, the phone key is here. I play with some settings, fiddle around with re-pairing and give it some more days to see if anything helps.
Desperation. Almost 1 month, nothing gets better. I don't want to return this, I would keep this until it's broken or too old to function. I turn to developer settings, nothing. For the first time in a decade, I enable USB debugging and start playing with that. I add the Rivian (PAAK) app to the whitelist. I turn off dooze mode. I switch on every Bluetooth scan/don't sleep option I can find. High power mode. EVERYTHING. Color OS is hell bent on killing any background app with a vengeance.
Defeat. I walk up to my truck. It stays locked. I wiggle the N6 and it unlocks. I get in, and... No key detected. Maybe it's the truck I tell myself. I turn back on my trusty s25+ and wait till the morning. Before I can get close to the truck's doors, lights flash, handles pop out, and I am in without a second thought. I shift into drive and leave before I can even think about having to open the app. My problem is finally solved.
It may seem like a small thing, but once you get used to PAAK and how instantaneous it is, you can't go back. This is a deal breaker for me, and at the end of the day, despite how much I love the N6, if I can't get into my vehicle without opening the app and waiting 20-30 seconds every time just to put it in drive, well, it's got to go...
I hope your experience is different, maybe mine was a one off thing, but from everything I could research Color OS is incredibly aggressive about shutting down apps in the background. This is a word of warning to anyone who also loves and relies on PAAK. I don't think this phone is for us, no matter how good it is at everything else.