WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.359 the obvious joke what is there to say about the nothing phone one nothing haha 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:12.480 video over but the truth is i've been using this one for about a 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:14.400 week and i actually have a lot to say 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:17.520 let's start by getting it opened up oh right i forgot how their package works 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:22.720 you rip open the thing and you go like that and you get this which is your 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:26.480 accessories which is basically ha nothing 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:30.400 a type c to type c cable no charging brick thank you apple for that industry 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:34.320 trend and thank you nothing for continuing it then on the other side 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:38.640 we've got the phone itself there's a little sim removal tool very stylish and 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:43.840 really that's going to be your first impression of the nothing phone one 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:46.640 these guys have taken the boring black 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:51.120 brick and they've really added something to it i gravitated toward the white one 00:00:49.120 --> 00:00:55.920 like i think pretty much everyone else but now that i've seen the black one in 00:00:53.199 --> 00:01:01.760 person this is this is my first time i might like it better it's less flashy 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:05.680 but still unique enough that i'll probably still get comments on it boy 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:10.080 did i ever get a lot of comments on the nothing phone just anytime i was using 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:13.680 it like oh wow what's that so if you like something that is 00:01:11.360 --> 00:01:16.960 attention-grabbing i'd say the white one is the way to go but if you want 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:21.439 something that's cool but more understated the black one's super cool 00:01:19.600 --> 00:01:24.960 on the back of every nothing phone one you'll find their glyph interface which 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:29.439 is a series of lights that can illuminate in different patterns for 00:01:27.119 --> 00:01:34.079 silent ringtones and notifications personally i did not find it 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:37.680 particularly useful i am not a put my phone on the desk next to me and 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:42.399 then watch out of the corner of my eye if it lights up kind of person and i 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:46.560 would have absolutely no hope whatsoever of remembering which particular flashing 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:49.439 light pattern corresponds to which contact in my address book 00:01:48.479 --> 00:01:54.560 but if nothing else it's got style you can 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:59.360 also use them to light up your shot when you're recording videos other than that 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:03.119 i love the transparent glass back you can see the charging coil for their qi 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:07.600 wireless charging that goes up to 15 watts and does 5 watts of reverse 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:11.440 wireless charging for your earphones or whatever else the case may be and you 00:02:08.959 --> 00:02:15.599 can also see some ribbon cables the camera module and most of the rest of 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:20.720 this i don't really recognize other than that about it physically 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:24.480 there's not a whole lot to really say lock button on the right volume on the 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:27.760 left great positioning for those you're very unlikely to accidentally mash your 00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:31.680 volume buttons when you're trying to lock the phone which i mean has been a 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:37.200 frequent complaint for me over the years on the bottom you'll find type c charging dual sim as well as a bottom 00:02:35.440 --> 00:02:41.519 speaker it does have an amplified earpiece speaker but from what i 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:45.599 experienced the stereo balance of it is extremely poor so hopefully that's 00:02:43.519 --> 00:02:48.879 something that nothing can tune in nothing os which is their skin for 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:53.040 Android and something that i want to spend most of my time talking about i 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:56.640 bet from here you guys can tell that it's all coming out of the right side 00:02:55.120 --> 00:03:00.000 that's that's actually quite an achievement the last thing i do need to 00:02:58.239 --> 00:03:03.519 talk about physically though is that whether you love or hate the ergonomics 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:08.800 is pretty much going to come down to whether you love or hate the ergonomics 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:10.640 of an iphone max 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:14.720 notice any similarities ladies and gentlemen 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:19.040 nearly identical dimensions 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:22.879 even down to the thickness to the point where i was coming back from lunch with 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:28.000 Jake who happens to have an iphone 13 pro max and he's like wow it feels so 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:32.239 similar i should take off my case and we should put it on the nothing 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:37.040 phone it fits like a glove 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:41.360 obviously you're not going to have the same you know positions for the volume 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:45.360 rocker and the lock button so you wouldn't actually want to use this you 00:03:43.519 --> 00:03:51.040 know your top microphone for noise cancellation is not gonna be exposed 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:55.519 but the freaking thing actually fits like it doesn't you know you gotta 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:59.680 you gotta work to get it up there i personally do not like the ergonomics of 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:03.599 the iphone 13 pro max but i'm also not a fan of the software so let's talk about 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:06.959 what nothing has done to make their Android skin stand out from the crowd 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:11.840 first of all you've got your fingerprint facial recognition both of which work 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:15.519 well not to mention speedily i do have one complaint when you interact with a 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:19.600 notification while the phone is locked by dragging it down when you drag it 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:24.320 back up you're not prompted for a fingerprint unlock instead you get a pin 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:27.360 code then you have to go back then you have to go like this 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:30.880 which means that you're not actually going to open up that notification you 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:35.360 were trying to interact with it's just little things like that that have 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:40.560 irked me i don't like how much space my quick 00:04:38.080 --> 00:04:43.919 controls take up up here i prefer a much higher density interface than what 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:47.840 they've done here other little things they're in the interface for uh turning 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:52.400 your hotspot on and off you have to kind of swipe to access it that's something 00:04:49.440 --> 00:04:57.120 that i use a lot and i would like to be able to just have be a one touch turn on 00:04:55.440 --> 00:05:01.600 turn off thing rather than opening up the menu overall it seems like nothing 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:05.199 has adopted what at least used to be the oneplus approach to their software where 00:05:03.440 --> 00:05:10.720 it's a pretty clean mostly stock Android experience and with 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.400 my personal opinion pretty nice style to it 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:16.960 and not a lot of extra that means you won't 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:20.240 find any bloat i haven't removed a single stock app from this phone you can 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:26.560 see there's just no random crap on here but it also means 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:29.199 that you might not get the same richness 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:33.520 of experience that you would expect from other skin makers and a perfect example 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:37.840 of this is screen shotting so let's take a quick screenshot here and i'm going to 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:42.320 go ahead and share this okay that's a pretty normal looking share interface no 00:05:40.400 --> 00:05:46.400 problems there what if i wanted to edit it before i share it oh my god i have to 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:49.520 click a thing before i can crop it then 00:05:47.840 --> 00:05:54.000 wait what now save copy 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:58.479 i can't share it directly i can't click this to open up my photos app so now all 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:01.680 of a sudden it's a tedious multi-step process to 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:05.840 take a screenshot crop it to whatever you want or draw on 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:11.120 it and then to send it to someone we can compare this to samsung for contrast 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:15.680 nothing also has a similar scrolling capture feature which is really cool but 00:06:13.440 --> 00:06:20.720 here i can draw on it quickly crop it and my share menu is 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:23.919 still there it's definitely a better experience we'll talk about software 00:06:22.400 --> 00:06:26.880 more in a moment because it's kind of the most important part of the phone but 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:33.039 first let's touch on the hardware it's got a snapdragon 778 g plus which is 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:37.360 about what most people will ever need we are long past the point where flagship 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:41.280 chipsets are actually necessary in a smartphone to have a good experience 00:06:38.960 --> 00:06:45.440 you're able to record it up to 4k 30 with that chipset you can play pretty 00:06:43.440 --> 00:06:51.360 much any game that you can throw at this thing it supports a 120hz variable 00:06:47.840 --> 00:06:53.919 refresh rate on its 1080 by 2400 6.55 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:58.240 inch display which in my opinion is pretty much the sweet spot if only it 00:06:55.919 --> 00:07:03.199 wasn't for these squared off freaking corners it'll do 1200 nits peak 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:06.880 brightness in HDR which is about all that you're going to need and i just 00:07:05.440 --> 00:07:11.520 didn't notice any kind of 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:15.360 slowdowns i mean slightly weird behavior in the animations sometimes when i drag 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:19.520 up from the bottom with the gesture navigation it's like i don't know a 00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:22.960 little bit weird sometimes because i'm really tempted to do it the iphone way 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:26.000 and kind of drag it in a j shape you can see actually right now it's not even 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:30.639 registering is telling me how to do it like not an idiot but that's just down 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:35.199 to their animation design it was never the smoothness of the interface of the 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:42.479 phone it's available with 8 or 12 gigs of lpddr5 memory and 128 or 256 gigs of 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:45.440 ufs 3.1 storage meaning that at the 00:07:42.479 --> 00:07:50.879 price which is starting at 399 pounds and then it's 499 pounds at the high end 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:54.479 i mean we might actually have you know 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:57.360 a new one plus back i mean i guess that was 00:07:55.919 --> 00:08:02.879 kind of the point right i guess we should talk a little bit about nothing and where they came from the founder 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:06.879 carl pay was one of the founders of oneplus and 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:13.039 if i had to guess based on the direction oneplus has gone since his departure and 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:18.560 my first experience with nothing os with the nothing phone one i would say that 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:20.960 he was the one who made oneplus good i mean 00:08:19.520 --> 00:08:25.720 i'm not trying to be a hater or anything but look at this 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:29.039 double-click to open the camera app 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:31.440 obviously the way oppo does that with 00:08:29.039 --> 00:08:36.399 the the the draw you draw a c on your off screen it's it's asinine 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:39.200 i would be open to nothing adding you know more options for quick launching 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:44.159 the camera i'm not saying that just because i prefer to double tap the lock 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:47.360 button means that absolutely everyone should prefer that 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:51.600 i'm just saying that it's a lot quicker than basically anyone else's way of 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:55.440 doing it including apples okay so i have to lift it up to wake 00:08:53.200 --> 00:09:00.480 long pressed this no i shouldn't have to look at the device 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:06.240 that should do it especially since it doesn't already do anything else you're 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:11.120 not even using it sorry sorry i got all angry again for a second the haptics of 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:14.800 the nothing phone one are outstanding the iphone actually reminded me of that 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:18.880 because up until now apple was one of the only one to really get haptic motors 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:23.519 right usually one of the first things that i do when i pick up an Android 00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:28.399 phone is turn off the vibration when i'm typing but in this case you can even 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:28.399 just tell from the sound 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:34.959 it has a really nice tight feeling to it 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:38.240 it doesn't feel like you guys know what i'm talking about 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:41.680 right a very a very apple-like feel and i'm 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:45.360 surprised to find that in such a reasonably priced device since we're 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:49.839 talking about the camera the best thing i can really say about it is no 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:54.000 complaints you know it really doesn't seem like whether we're talking screen 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:59.040 color calibration or the camera that nothing has overcooked anything i don't 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:03.760 know that they're necessarily delivering the absolute finest image quality in the 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:07.839 market but there was never a situation with the nothing phone where i felt like 00:10:05.680 --> 00:10:10.720 oh this is really holding me back and they've certainly got the hardware 00:10:09.040 --> 00:10:16.320 behind it they're using a 50 megapixel sony imx 766 sensor for the main shooter 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:21.040 and then their wide is using a 50 megapixel samsung jn1 sensor you've got 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:25.519 optical and electronic image stabilization on the main and then just 00:10:22.959 --> 00:10:28.560 electronic image stabilization on the wide which is 00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:33.519 pretty much what you'd expect again this is not a flagship tier phone with a 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:38.800 flagship to your soc and flagship trimmings it's got a 16 megapixel imx 00:10:35.839 --> 00:10:42.640 471 in the hole punch camera which i honestly didn't use this will be the 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:47.760 first selfie i'm taking with the nothing phone yeah it's a little processed um 00:10:44.800 --> 00:10:50.079 not the greatest let's see if we can hold it a little 00:10:48.800 --> 00:10:54.560 more still but studio lighting is kind of a best case 00:10:52.640 --> 00:10:59.120 scenario yeah if you hold it still it's good but i don't think my hands that 00:10:56.560 --> 00:11:03.839 shaky is it do they not have slow-mo video capture oh they do 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:08.399 120 only 120 FPS though 00:11:06.959 --> 00:11:11.440 okay i mean it's little things like that that are 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:14.399 just probably not built 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:20.720 yet the software updates for this thing are coming hard and heavy so here are a few 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:24.880 things that i found were just a little lacking like screenshot sharing the 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:29.360 gesture controls are exactly what you'll be used to if you have an iphone i don't 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:32.800 prefer them but the reason that i'm using them is because i feel like i 00:11:31.040 --> 00:11:37.040 haven't really been given a choice unfortunately nothing os does not give 00:11:35.040 --> 00:11:41.120 you the option to reverse your task switcher button and your back button i 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:45.200 prefer the samsung orientation which is back button here because i'm 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:48.720 right-handed and i use the back button a lot more than i use the task switching 00:11:47.680 --> 00:11:53.040 button so i would really really like to see 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:57.440 them fix that for now i'm stuck with gestures which mostly work fine except 00:11:55.279 --> 00:12:02.320 when they're annoying and they do annoy me a little bit one 00:11:59.760 --> 00:12:07.200 nothing excuse me has not rounded the edge of their default screen protector 00:12:04.560 --> 00:12:11.360 here so it's a little scrapy when you're sliding in from the top sliding in from 00:12:08.880 --> 00:12:15.600 the side oh credit for including a screen protector though it uses gorilla 00:12:12.959 --> 00:12:19.440 glass on both front and back has an included screen protector and that did 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:22.880 come in handy i actually dropped it on the pavement 00:12:20.959 --> 00:12:28.480 like an hour before we filmed this it was in pristine condition 00:12:25.680 --> 00:12:33.040 but it handled it like a champ all it did was dent the aluminum frame a little 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:36.639 bit i've certainly had worse another thing i'd like to see them work 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:41.360 on this would be super cool nobody else actually does this but man how cool 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:45.120 would it be if your audio quick settings here allowed you to switch between 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:50.480 bluetooth devices like what would you guys give 00:12:47.920 --> 00:12:56.480 to have quick access to switch between your car and your earpiece or your 00:12:53.920 --> 00:12:59.839 bluetooth headphones or whatever else without 00:12:57.440 --> 00:13:04.000 digging into your bluetooth menu there you go nothing i know you guys are 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:08.079 watching this video there's an idea free of charge i found some really cool stuff 00:13:05.920 --> 00:13:12.800 in the developer options you can enable oem unlocking just like that right in 00:13:10.800 --> 00:13:17.440 the interface it'll tell you not just what your percentage of battery 00:13:14.160 --> 00:13:19.360 remaining is but your time remaining i 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:23.360 actually found the battery life was quite excellent with its 4500 milliamp 00:13:21.760 --> 00:13:28.480 hour battery and less than flagship chipset this thing 00:13:25.680 --> 00:13:31.120 sips power and i was easily able to get through a full 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:35.680 long day just as an experiment i woke up one 00:13:33.040 --> 00:13:39.839 morning with only about 35 left because i hadn't charged it that night not that 00:13:37.920 --> 00:13:43.440 i had started at 100 the previous day but i was like oh okay i'm gonna see how 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:49.920 you know if i can get through the day with this and in the maybe hour or so it's spent in my little 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:54.240 caddy in my car using Android auto charging a little bit i was able to get 00:13:52.560 --> 00:13:59.360 through the day so i'm pretty darn impressed it wasn't a heavy use day but 00:13:57.040 --> 00:14:03.440 it seems like they've done a pretty good job of just not filling this thing up 00:14:01.760 --> 00:14:07.519 with bloat which is a big part of battery life now they pointed out this 00:14:05.839 --> 00:14:12.079 feature where you can interface with third-party devices here experimental 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:16.480 features like connect to tesla and i don't have a tesla but apparently they 00:14:14.160 --> 00:14:21.279 also have a way to read airpods battery life natively without needing like a 00:14:18.160 --> 00:14:25.120 third-party hacky app but that is not 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:26.320 something that i have tried i mean let's 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:30.720 see here so what do i just go into the settings 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:33.600 i don't know i don't see anything about that that was in their notes though right 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:39.120 it could be something that they're adding down the road but at any rate it doesn't seem to do anything right now 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:43.040 there are a handful of other things i could talk about but the bottom line i 00:14:40.880 --> 00:14:45.920 think is already pretty clear for the price 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:50.399 honestly it looks great and if they manage to 00:14:48.160 --> 00:14:56.079 stay true to their mission which appears to be a nice clean non-bloated Android 00:14:53.680 --> 00:15:00.959 interface at a 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