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right out of the gate the cmf phone 1 has got me well a little confused I am

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familiar with the concept of budget-oriented sub Brands like honor or

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red magic or OnePlus it's just that nothing does well nothing to hide their

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Association putting their branding right on the side of the box and is nothing

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really such a premium brand that they need a sub brand I'm not saying they're

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bad products I'm just saying it feels a little bit like walking into an Ikea and

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finding ffp furniture for people branded

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products next to the IKEA branded ones what really was the difference here one

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difference is of course the price the cmf phone 1 starts at just

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$200 and I've got to say getting this in my hands I don't believe it everything

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about this device from the design to the materials is deceptively premium feeling

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I mean this is made of plastic but it's

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not the kind of thing that I would notice if wasn't a materials nerd and I

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was just using my phone like a normal person even the bezels are yeah they're

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on the bigger side compared to the latest Flagship devices but they're

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perfectly reasonable this my friends is a 120 HZ variable refresh rate 1080x

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2400 AMOLED display on a flipping $200

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phone they even advertise Peak brightness of 2,000 nits meaning this

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should be great for watching HDR content unfortunately our lab didn't measure

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anywhere near that high but at over 12200 nits that's still enough to blow

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out our top down camera and make for a very acceptable HDR experience and even

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the speakers are surprisingly good or rather I should say speaker since

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there's no Amplified earpiece speaker but that's the kind of thing you expect

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to find on a budget phone and honestly I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit because we haven't even looked at the

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exterior one of the coolest things about this device is that this plastic backing

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which has this really cool kind of industrial look with screws on it is

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also extremely functional instead of buying cases for the phone one you

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actually replace the entire back with

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any color you want which is the C in cmf

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which stands for color material finish that is such an Innovative idea and one

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that I can fully get behind because it has the maybe unintentional consequence

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of also making it easier to swap out the battery just because you can swap out

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the battery doesn't mean that you're going to get five to 10 years of

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uninterrupted service out of this thing because they are only committed to two

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years for major Android updates and three years for security updates which

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is very much on the low side compared to competitors we're going to take a closer

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look at this after a mention for our

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sponsor oh no dearest Mr Sebastian a

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thread was published on your subreddit titled let's get D Brand's attention to

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sponsor lineus to dye his hair blonde again dbrand wanted to bring it back I

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thought they were going to sponsor me to D it again on the show or something I'm

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down dbrand come at me yeah yeah yeah it's going to be a big bag of money or

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I'm not doing it though cuz my wife is not going to be into it today your

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evasive maneuvers will be ineffective before we Fork over a big bag of money

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we'd like to engage in the ageel tradition of try before you buy inside

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this box you will find hair bleach use it to dye a small portion of your hair

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right now on camera does it have to be on my

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head why don't for this portion I use the self camera on the nothing phone

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sorry excuse me the cmf phone 1 the rear camera is a 50 map Sony affair with an

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assist camera that helps with portrait bokeh effects and the front camera is 16

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megapixels from our experience photos are okay they're not the sharpest but

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nothing does manage to pretty reasonably balance skin tones as well as overall

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color accuracy as for video though because both the rear and front camera

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lack Optical image stabilization of any kind you'll find you're going to end up

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Focus hunting a little bit and in general they're they're not really great

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they're good enough they're better than almost any laptop especially when you consider how challenging these

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conditions are but Belle you want to do the honors use it to dye a small portion

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of your hair this isn't even going to show up on camera you're just going to

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make me look like an idiot everywhere

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else listen this is what dbrand would want that's why they trusted me with

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this look dude dude the instructions say

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small want you to know I care deeply for this company and I would do anything to

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uh keep us going keep sponsors happy okay um dbrand asked for a sample of

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what the dying my hair blonde sponsorship might look like and asked

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for a small part of my hair to be dyed blonde I entrusted Belle and he did this

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okay why I got a little out of hand I

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tried to massage it in and the circle just got bigger and

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bigger oh my gosh

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you thanks hun

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serious yeah L they pay

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more anyway let's take a look at the exterior of this phone on the right side

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we've got a lock button on the top we've got a microphone for noise cancellation

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on the left we've got volume rockers or one rather and then on the bottom a USB

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type-c port that mono speaker I mentioned before as well as our tray for

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the SIM card before we go any further I want to swap this out and see how long

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it takes and I'm going to use my LTT Precision screwdriver oh I love this

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okay okay first of all yeah that's super nice it comes with a Sim removal tool

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and everything you need to remove your old back plate so that's all fine and cool but it comes with a new little

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knobby P the point is that you can leave

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your old colors as accents no way it has

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micro SD expansion and dual SIM what doesn't it have hey there we go okay

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it's like a leverage Point that's the internals of the phone

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stick how much are these accessory TOPS

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oh so cool like look if I want to have

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like a a black release knob and a black

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SIM tray I could do that boom accent

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I I love this now I just wish that I

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could have it on a phone that has NFC so

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while they manage to match or even beat

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some mid-tier phones in other ways like for example offering 33 wat charging

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that manages to get to 50% in just half an hour it lacks wireless charging which

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is kind of an obvious one but it lacks NFC and with the prevalence of mobile

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payments these days I just don't see how

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that cannot be a deal breaker for so many

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people you know it's the kind of thing where I wouldn't even be that mad if

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everything else about this phone wasn't so darn enticing like even just the

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texture of this back super nice and in spite of the plastic back they've

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actually managed to have decent enough cooling that the gaming performance

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matches the nothing 2A which is a device

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that costs up to like what about $150

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more H there's just so much to like here

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even the fingerprint sensor was really good in our testing making it just an

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almost complete package at such a reasonable price this is one of those

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ones where I guess I have no choice but the cop out conclusion where I say I

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can't recommend this one it really does just come down to NFC it's got 5,000

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milliamp battery it's gonna get like

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almost two days but I want to see a next gen that resolves that one issue at

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nearly the same price give it to me for

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$28 and like I won't just recommend it I'd fliping I'd flip and buy one of

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these I mean with that said it's not like I obviously have the most

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Discerning taste in phones subscribe to ShortCircuit quick

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Biga closure on this uh this is what it looks

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like yeah D brand the W show is tomorrow

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you will be the sponsor for the rest of this