WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.319 Get a Pixel. They said, "You haven't tried Android till you've had a Pixel." 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:11.120 They told me, "I don't remember the last time I had a phone that I've had to 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:15.839 force close my app so many times, that I've had my keyboard not come up, that 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:19.760 I've had my voice dictation just randomly not work for as often as this 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:24.880 phone." Okay, it managed to work that time. But I swear to you, it breaks all 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:27.599 the time. And maybe the Phone 2 Pro from 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:33.360 CMF by Nothing is going to be the solution. The 3A Pro wasn't. But third 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:37.760 times the charm. I can't keep track of their numbering scheme. Maybe this is 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:39.360 the third one. Who knows? Welcome to 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:43.680 nothing. Well, I'm not reading that. It's nothing, right? No. Sorry. Sorry. 00:00:41.760 --> 00:00:47.920 The joke's old. Okay, what else we got here? Wait, what even is their branding? 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:52.000 They're not even pretending CMF is a separate brand anymore. What is the 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:57.280 point of it? The point of it is a decent value phone with a decent processor at a 00:00:54.879 --> 00:01:01.359 fair price. And compared to the CMF Phone 1, there are some key 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:07.200 improvements. For one thing, the Ingress protection is significantly better. It 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:09.200 is now IP54 rated instead of IP52, 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:14.479 meaning you can splash it from any direction. It has three rear cameras, 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:17.280 now a 50 megapixel wide, a 50 megapixel 00:01:14.479 --> 00:01:22.240 telephoto with a 2x optical zoom, an 8 megap ultrawide, and finally a 16 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:25.920 megapixel front camera. Other than that, they've added the same essential key 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:30.479 that we saw on the Nothing 3a series, which opens up a little AI notetaker 00:01:28.479 --> 00:01:35.600 thing. And it is apparently their slimmest phone yet, which personally I 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:38.960 appreciate, especially the uh smaller camera bump compared to the 3a Pro. That 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:42.880 was it ended up being kind of a dealbreaker for me to be honest with you. It was like hard to get in and out 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:46.240 of my pocket. Let's finish off our visual tour. We've got our lock button 00:01:44.479 --> 00:01:49.640 on the right, noise cancelling microphone on the top, volume rocker on 00:01:48.320 --> 00:01:55.119 the left. That's going to make taking screenshots that easy. USBC on the 00:01:52.560 --> 00:02:00.880 bottom that runs at USB 2 speeds. Speaker, microphone, SIM tray, and not a 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:05.600 whole lot else. This is not in fact a dial. Nope, sorry, not a dial. But at 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:11.280 the back, we get the same modular interface that you know and love. Okay, 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:15.760 you probably don't know it, and odds are you probably don't love that they've 00:02:12.959 --> 00:02:20.080 actually changed it. So, any accessories for the original CMF phone are not going 00:02:18.239 --> 00:02:23.040 to work on this one. Whoops. Well, let's check it out anyway. Oh, right. Right. 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:28.959 The tools are apparently in here. Along with a USBC to C cable. That's a stylish 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.720 cable. Very square. I heard it's hip to 00:02:28.959 --> 00:02:34.319 be that. You know, I saw people get upset sometimes at how carelessly I 00:02:32.720 --> 00:02:37.840 treat the accessories and packaging for the stuff that I unbox. Look, if they 00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:41.599 can't handle what I'm doing to them, they are never going to survive that 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:46.480 trip to your house with the FedEx or UPS driver. Let's be real here, folks. Ooh. 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:50.480 Interchangeable lenses. A concept that has never been any good and probably 00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:54.400 still isn't. Actually, I've heard there are some that are decent. Are there some 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:58.080 that are decent now? Xiaomi. Does Xiaomi have a decent interchangeable lens? 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:03.680 Okay. All right. Well, you know what I have to say about that? If you want to 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:09.120 match them, show me. Okay. What do you I'm going to figure it out. God, you 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:12.720 don't tell me step one, then tell me step two. You got to do this other thing 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:16.480 before step one. Are you kidding me right now? I don't even feel bad for 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:21.800 being confused by that. Well, where is it? You know what? We're going to try it 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:27.840 later. Wallet and stand. More like mag dangerous. Going to 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:31.760 break your Oh, wait. Do I need this stupid thing? I need this stupid 00:03:30.239 --> 00:03:36.720 thing. This is what has the magnet in it. This doesn't even have the magnet. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:39.280 It's a universal cut. So, the only thing 00:03:36.720 --> 00:03:42.959 modular about the interface is you take off these screws and then you add the 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:48.400 interchangeable lens and the magnet feature that was supposed to have. How 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:50.640 much is this thing? €25. This is €25. 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:54.400 Okay, fine. They only sell them in the European UK. What? You can't even buy 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:58.319 the the universal cover here. It's not very universal then, is it? But thank 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:02.319 god I can put a lanyard on it. What kind of nerd would use a lanyard in this 00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:09.760 year? Oh my god. Who would use a lanyard 00:04:06.239 --> 00:04:12.640 this big on their phone? Hi, welcome to 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:16.639 Best Buy. I hang my phone around my neck because I literally want everyone to 00:04:14.720 --> 00:04:22.079 know what a slave I am to my digital devices. What can I help you with? Like 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:26.960 seriously. Well, here's how you put it on anyway. Look at the profile of this 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:31.680 thing off the phone. I mean, it makes sense coming from the company. What br 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:35.680 you the giant camera bump coming off this high? But like, what do I tie it? 00:04:34.080 --> 00:04:40.720 Like, do I tie it in a little bow back here? Like, what do I Is this the style? 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:45.759 Is this what the kids are wearing? Do they walk the runway in this in Europe 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:48.840 and the UK? Yeah, Mom. I'm just doing a show right now. Got to go. I said I'll 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:55.600 talk to you later, Mom. God, this is atrocious, 00:04:52.840 --> 00:04:59.600 dude. Like, let me have some people like wearing it like a sling. Yeah. Like a 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:05.040 cross body. Cross body. We could try the Let's try the cross body cuz the No, I 00:05:02.320 --> 00:05:10.800 look like an idiot. No longer. It's supposed to be by your hip. So 00:05:08.840 --> 00:05:14.240 convenient. It's okay. It comes with a screen protector. Let's get the SIM tray 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:20.960 open. I could still be pleasantly surprised. Wo! Sim 2 micro SD. Oh. Oh, 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:25.039 we got expandable storage here, folks. We got expandable storage. I was looking 00:05:23.520 --> 00:05:30.639 at it again half expecting to find a headphone jack. You know what else we got in here? 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Dude, I feel like we barely scratched the surface of this 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:10.560 thing because it has a screen protector. Get it? Otherwise, we would have 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:14.479 scratched it pretty good. Okay, let's play around with the camera. I got the 00:06:11.919 --> 00:06:18.880 wallet working. Huh? Wallet. Kind of mediocre stand, but it's attached to 00:06:17.440 --> 00:06:23.360 your phone already, which is so convenient. Oh, dude, there's so much still to talk about. So much. Okay, you 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:28.479 know what? Well, we'll get to the camera in a second, then. Let's talk performance. One of the big selling 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:33.440 points here is the MediaTek Demensity 7300 Pro 5G chipset, which as far as we 00:06:31.280 --> 00:06:37.840 can tell is basically the same damn thing as the last one, but like maybe a 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:41.840 couple% faster. That's not a terrible thing. It's a pretty okay chip, and it 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:45.759 didn't thermal throttle in any of our testing, but it wasn't much of an 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:49.600 improvement over last gen. So realistically, if the phone feels more 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:55.520 responsive, that's probably coming down to the faster touch pulling on the new 00:06:52.479 --> 00:06:58.000 device. So it's still 120 Hz display, 00:06:55.520 --> 00:07:03.280 supports variable refresh rate, but the touch polling is far more frequent, so 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:10.440 it could feel a little more responsive in games, and it has more AI. Also, 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:13.599 apparently the screen can hit 3,000 nits 00:07:10.440 --> 00:07:16.800 now. Gosh, that's a lot of nits. Too bad 00:07:13.599 --> 00:07:19.039 it only does that in like a special test 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:24.800 file in Google Photos. Hey, it's Wi-Fi 6, though. Bluetooth 5.3. Okay, that's 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:27.199 the same as the other CMF phone. I'm I'm going to find some stuff. I'm going to 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:31.759 find some stuff that's different. You just wait. It's still pretty 00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:35.440 mind-blowing for a relatively affordable phone. I mean, we usually talk pricing 00:07:33.840 --> 00:07:40.639 at the end, but I think it's one of the big highlights here. $280 for this 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:46.000 thing. That is a flipping lot of phone for the money. I mean, it even has NFC 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:49.280 now, and you don't need the universal stupid thing in order to have it. That 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:53.280 was one of my biggest complaints with the original CMF phone. And I know that 00:07:51.280 --> 00:07:58.960 in at least one of their main target markets, India, QR codes are a much 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:01.759 bigger deal than NFC, but NFC is a thing pretty much everywhere else. And it's 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:05.919 nice to have it. I don't want to be locked out of using it as a feature. 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:10.400 Love to see it. No wireless charging still though. But hey, the wired 00:08:07.440 --> 00:08:14.879 charging is reasonably fast. It'll do 33 watts, which okay, it takes a little 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:20.560 over an hour to reach a full charge. But hey, it's a 5,000 mAh battery, guys. And 00:08:18.080 --> 00:08:26.240 we got over 18 hours of video playback in our test. So, what half an hour to 00:08:23.520 --> 00:08:30.160 run for like freaking 9 10 hours. I still like their skin. I did have some 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:33.440 bugs with the 3a Pro, which were part of the reason that I abandoned it. Like, I 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:37.839 would just get random music playback when I would disconnect it from Android Auto. It would just like play a song for 00:08:36.560 --> 00:08:44.159 a little bit on the phone speakers, even if I didn't even have music on. And I 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:47.040 don't love having to interact with this 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:50.720 multiple times every single time. I want to be able to drag it all the way down. 00:08:48.640 --> 00:08:55.839 I didn't actually realize that that's just an Android thing now. So, overall, 00:08:53.920 --> 00:09:01.040 my impressions of Nothing OS have been pretty positive. I didn't personally 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:05.279 find much use of the essential key. it just wasn't that essential for me. But I 00:09:02.880 --> 00:09:09.440 do generally like the idea of being able to add a quick voice note that I can 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:13.519 refer back to later. And just having that go somewhere organized for me as an 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:16.160 ADHD brain, it's pretty appealing, but it's the kind of thing that I would 00:09:14.560 --> 00:09:21.080 really have to work to get in the habit of using. And when I haven't locked into 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:24.720 a phone just yet, haven't put a ring on anything, it's hard to make that a 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:27.680 habit. Speaking of putting a ring on things, why don't we fire up the camera 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:35.760 and uh try out some of these interchangeable lenses. Mid. Quite mid indeed. Let's try 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:37.680 the telephoto. Less mid. More bad. You 00:09:35.760 --> 00:09:44.240 know what though? I'm sure the lenses are going to fix this. Fix it right up. 00:09:40.160 --> 00:09:47.120 Why would I bother with this? This is 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:52.000 Dude, this is trash. Look at this chromatic aberration here. It's fisheye. 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:55.839 Yeah, it is. I don't want to be a fish then because they apparently can't see 00:09:53.440 --> 00:10:02.640 so good. Let's check out the real texture on this Dbrand skin. This glow 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:02.640 circuit skin 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:10.800 ltttore.shortlinus.dbrand.com. Wow. You can really see that texture. Damn. The 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:14.720 question is, do we even need it? Could we just go in macro mode? Wait, does 00:10:12.959 --> 00:10:18.800 this not even have a macro mode? Well, wait. No, I get it. No. If I want if I 00:10:16.800 --> 00:10:23.600 want my media to be macro, I got to get the 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:26.000 flash using the main shooter. Just 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:29.440 taking a shot from farther away. You know what? No. Okay. The macro lens does 00:10:28.079 --> 00:10:35.279 something. It does something. It does something. But hey, Mag 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:37.760 Safe. Yeah. Mag Safe. All right. Selfie. 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:45.040 Is it euthanizing me? No. No. Not that kind. I mean making me look more 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:47.279 youthful. Oh my god. If only my skin was 00:10:45.040 --> 00:10:51.120 that smooth. I don't even need no pores. Who needs pores? That's like holes in 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:55.120 your skin. You don't need that. Oh, that's too bad. Did you see how good the 00:10:53.040 --> 00:10:59.360 color looked for a second before it like bunged it? Take the 00:10:56.680 --> 00:11:03.600 picture. See that? It like flattened it all out. Such a fluttery photo. Don't 00:11:02.560 --> 00:11:08.720 worry about it. Don't worry about it. Okay. Here. Here. Here. Here. Check this out. Check this out. Look at that. Like 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:13.000 I I looked like I was alive and then it was like, "No, dude. You old." 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:21.519 Retouching. Natural. Strong. Ooh. Whoa, buddy. Wa! Strong retouch. 00:11:19.079 --> 00:11:25.360 Damn. Oh, no. That's better. Okay, maybe it wasn't in no retouching mode. Okay. 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:28.800 Okay, that seems fine. Poor choice of subject, but otherwise, good photo. Oh, 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:32.800 yeah. Speakers. Okay, let's check these out. You know what? I have high hopes. 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:35.839 Nothing's quality for the price has generally been pretty good in my 00:11:34.160 --> 00:11:41.720 experience. So, I feel like these speakers are going to be stereo and 00:11:37.920 --> 00:11:41.720 they're going to be pretty strong. 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:51.360 Well, we were bound to find at least one 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:53.600 reason that it is not a flagship phone. 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:58.000 The speaker is that reason. Those are rough. I shouldn't say those. That just 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:01.360 one speaker. That that speaker that speaker is rough. We haven't talked 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:05.040 about the RAM yet. It's got 8 gigs of RAM. So, if you like 1 gig of RAM, 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:08.000 you'll like this eight times more than that. About all you can expect at this 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:12.480 price point. 3 years of software updates, 6 years of security updates. Oh 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:16.160 yeah, and the screen is 6.77 in. For those of you who were kind of wondering 00:12:14.079 --> 00:12:19.680 about that before, subscribe to ShortCircuit. I'm going to keep looking at 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:22.720 these bezels. Decide whether to switch to this phone.