yeah I reviewed the nothing year one last year and I totally insulated myself
from seeing or knowing anything about it or what it looked like I did the same for this one but this is different this
is a cylinder this is a stick the last one was a square a cube
um this is unusual and it would catch my eye if I saw it in the store nice
packaging still has that kind of retro futuristic
kind of Terminator vibe to it actually I'm going to give it a um alien Covenant
that weird birthing scene like a medical
lab on a spaceship that happened to me with the last box too I try to pull the
tab and it just falls off
so similarly to the last one it opens like a little Pez or cigarette box
okay cylinder case this time
I don't think that's going to feel great in my pocket but
this is definitely a cool experience let's just set that aside
what do I do with the rest of this oh you you open the other side
I feel like Darth Maul right now with this ah if there's another pair of
headphones in here can you imagine
foreign that happened last time too there's like
always a satisfying pop when you open their packaging so you get a little book
this time it's on white paper last time it was black which I thought was cooler
scan code to install the nothing app there's a new app this time
okay and a cable it's very small and
short I think this is pretty much the same as last time it's it's a braided
cable with a little sheath around it does this just peel off of the whole
thing oh my God
okay so they sit in here like that there's like a two level thing going on
here this is textured you probably hear this
it's like knurled and it says nothing
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you're like oh oh it spins in there
that's different you kind of oh you can do that with a side you don't have to
put your finger in the middle like that and it spins both directions like just
infinitely and it's ratcheted you can see it like snaps that is really cool
original industrial design it's so weird
there's like so few companies actually thinking outside the box like apple is
creative does a thing and then everyone else just does what they did it's like
creative people actually work at nothing as well crazy I wonder if I can whip it pat Bam
Bam Bam you can't Whip It Beyond One Snap that is uh pretty sweet okay and then
here's the earbuds getting them out though like if I left
just straight up it works if you lift tilting this way at all the stem gets
kind of stuck in there so grab the opposite one
like that there's an LED in here that's gonna I guess maybe show battery level
is there a button on here for pairing that is a button and there's also the
USBC Port right there and you can you can see the
the that button is it's columnar and on the back side it's just that's just
white this is a cool case I don't think it's gonna feel great in my pocket I'll
check that but yeah you can see it's like
it's just kind of tall something flatter probably feels better in your pocket but
I don't know I don't think everybody carries their charging case in their
pocket just because Linus puts it in the tiny pocket of his mom jeans doesn't
mean everyone else does I'd probably just throw this in a drawer in the bag
most of the time now let's look at the buds they look a
little different the last ones had your tips these don't
um and they have like a glossy ceramic this is similar to that they look really
beanular like they're they're convex all the way
around like on every Dimension they look cool like last time they have a red dot
indicating right ear and a white dot indicating left ear they say stick on
the inside and then they've got little grills very fine perforated grills here a bit
of a Bend smile shape on it and then a DOT over there and then there's one on
the outside so these are going to be uh microphones likely for active noise
canceling and for calls and stuff there's a bit of a highlight again I
can't tell if there's like a white line along that seam or if it's just the way
the light hits the plastic but you you can see the seam
it looks really cool they look really nice and premium they don't look cheap
and how do they feel they feel
they feel like deceptively loose like At first I felt like oh those are gonna
fall out they're not in there but they kind of just are in there
it's crazy it's like someone grabbing you gently and like Judo throwing you
and you're like how do they do that with just their fingertips
like the amounts of points of contact uh
with my ear are very small and but they feel pretty secure cool they
feel as isolating as as earbuds that go right in
and then when you pull them out I can hear like a little tick noise like I
guess that's the pause noise it's like tick I'm excited to try these
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nothing app it has I don't know man it just says nothing I
can't even say the whole word nothing x i I guess they changed it up because
they have more than one product now before you actually say you're one for
the on the app's name but they got more than the year ones now with the sticks
start nice animation
uh just like last time it's a bit janky like this stuff is covering up some of
the words so open the case leaving the earbuds in
oh God uh yeah that way
this way it's blinking it's solid
select device that you want to set up your stick
these app animations are nice a pinch for playing pause
and to answer and pick up calls interesting maybe double pinch does
anyone remember that crab Honda commercial maybe a little pinch double
pinch for skip forward and decline in an incoming call Triple pitch pinch to go
back it was all swipes last time so pin inch and hold to volume up and volume
down I'm curious if it's a like a solid ramp on the volume or if it's like
discrete steps like the airpods
I kind of prefer a ramp that's all
and here's your battery meters I want to see if the equalizer whoa this is way
better before it's like they listened before The Equalizer was just presets
like groovy hip hop classical and now
they've given us this weird
three-dimensional cloud how does this work oh custom I go into
custom and you can just move it like this so it
still is only like if this was like a normal graph it would just have three
bars on it for base mids and treble but they made it look cool
and there's nice haptic feedback on the phone when you turn the stuff up and
down it goes it vibrates a bit and you
can go from -6 to plus six on each of these three different dimensions it's
still not as good as having more bands to tweak than just like this giant mid
giant bass band but it's better than last year they also
have more bass more trouble I like the names for these
voice I guess that's your podcast mode I'm gonna go to balanced and how can I
customize these controls you can change the double pinch to be
back forward or voice assistant whoa look at that you can you can do it all
for left and right earbud that is a nice way to do that
right now it looks like it's all equal and symmetrical except for volume
I'm gonna keep it the way it is for now but it looks like double pinch and
triple pinch uh give you the same options sometimes they limit you and
like this interaction can only do this subset of things and this interaction
can do a different subset of things and that is true here the pinch and hold
can't be for play and pause but um
this looks like pretty robust I'm giving it like a B
plus you can see they do have the low lag mode that's great for gaming uh you
can turn off the in-ear detection they have the find my buds thing again
oh the sound is different though it just chirps now do you hear that
I'm skeptical I like that I have the last one because like if this is in the
couch
hello it's way better when you're looking for
something for to make a continuous noise because then it's just this one it makes
it sound every like two or three seconds I have to like wait warmer colder wait
I'd rather just get continuous feedback I got a new music app guys
title of subscription's over it's the era of Deezer now trying it out
they sound like reasonably like the resolution's like pretty
reasonable there's this cool like boom like one per bar kind of big stud in
this song that sounds pretty good they go pretty loud oh that's loud
I can hear it can you talk to me David uh considering ran open space I'm gonna
keep speaking yeah I definitely would want to pull these out I can't hear you let's try the squeeze there is a cool
little sound when you squeeze it
let's do a double dick tick I'm gonna try this volume ramping thing
yeah so when you hold it they kind of you hear a little feedback something
that goes and you can see it going up in discrete
steps which is safer I guess like making
it just linearly ramp would be trickier but it just kind of takes a little
longer what if I oh I can't just tab
I was like What if I just squeeze like but that's just gonna play and pause it
a bunch that would be cool if they recognize that that's what you're doing it was a whole different interaction
but I guess if you need to turn down quickly you just pull them out
wow that takes a long time to pause so here's how long it takes oh God it's
still playing there it goes and no music no music no music music
battery life has improved on these from the ear ones it's seven hours now 5.7
hours on the other ones 29 total hours of battery from the case it'll give you
two hours of playback from a 10 minute charge and their ip54 rated that if the
four is the waterproof that splashes that's really typical for basically any
earbud you get um but usually ipx4 is what you get on
other earbuds and uh X means they didn't get a rating for particles dust and
debris here they got a five six is the highest so that's cool that they
actually got a certification for that all right so that's that's the earbuds I
just had to do some Googling and I found out that these indeed do not have active
noise canceling or transparency or anything related to that uh these are
not a successor to the ear ones like I thought they were I guess that's why
they're not called the ear twos these are 100 bucks and they removed ANC and
the ear ones are still on sale but they got a price High hiked 150 bucks
inflation is real then okay
um no and so that kind of changes the whole
value proposition because the ear one's at 99 with ANC were like a no-brainer
these at 99 no ANC these are still they're still a good choice I still
think they're they're definitely worth it they're not they're just not like
crazy man these are slippy they're just not like a like a crazy
no-brainer but for the build quality
decent sound quality if you like the kind of I guess these are analogous to
the airpods now like it's the no ANC no
like inner ear thing and then nothing one is more like the airpods pro I'm
still giving them a recommend they're pretty cool I really like the industrial
design you can like show these off people are going to be interested in what these are and when you tell them
that they're only 99 bucks they're gonna be like wow apples gouging me don't get
them if you uh want to put them in your front pocket
but these are definitely a really cool earbud so thanks for
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