1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,240 Get a pixel, they said. You haven't tried Android 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,680 till you've had a pixel, they told me. I don't remember the last time I had a phone 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,920 that I've had to force close my app so many times 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:17,160 that I've had my keyboard not come up, that I've had my voice dictation just randomly not work for 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,920 as often as this phone. Okay, it managed to work that time, but I swear to you, 6 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:26,200 it breaks all the time. And maybe the phone 2 Pro from CMF by nothing 7 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:32,480 is gonna be this solution. The 3A Pro wasn't, but third time's the charm. 8 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:36,520 I can't keep track of their numbering scheme. Maybe this is the third one, who knows? 9 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:40,960 Welcome to nothing. Well, I'm not reading that, it's nothing, right? 10 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,000 No, sorry, sorry, the joke's old. Okay, what else we got here? 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Wait, what even is their branding? They're not even pretending CMF is a separate brand anymore. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,880 What is the point of it? The point of it is a decent value phone 13 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:58,160 with a decent processor at a fair price. And compared to the CMF phone one, 14 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,840 there are some key improvements. For one thing, the ingress protection 15 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:07,160 is significantly better. It's now IP54 rated, instead of IP52, 16 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:13,160 meaning you can splash it from any direction. It has three rear cameras now, a 50 megapixel wide, 17 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,880 a 50 megapixel telephoto with a 2X optical zoom, 18 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:21,680 an 8 megapixel ultra wide, and finally a 16 megapixel front camera. 19 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,960 Other than that, they've added the same essential key that we saw on the nothing 3A series, 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,880 which opens up a little AI note taker thing. And it is apparently their slimmest phone yet, 21 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:37,480 which personally I appreciate, especially the smaller camera bump compared to the 3A Pro. 22 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,480 That was, it ended up being kind of a deal breaker for me to be honest with you. 23 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,480 It was like hard to get in and out of my pocket. Let's finish off our visual tour. 24 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,320 We've got our lock button on the right, noise cancelling microphone on the top, 25 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:51,600 volume rocker on the left, that's gonna make taking screenshots that easy. 26 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,080 USB-C on the bottom, that runs at USB two speeds. 27 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker, microphone, SIM tray, and not a whole lot else. 28 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,960 This is not in fact a dial. Nope, sorry, not a dial. 29 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,080 But at the back, we get the same modular interface 30 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,360 that you know and love. Okay, you probably don't know it. 31 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,400 And odds are you probably don't love that they've actually changed it. 32 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,400 So any accessories for the original CMF phone 33 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,000 are not gonna work on this one. Whoops. Well, let's check it out anyway. 34 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Oh, right, right. The tools are apparently in here, along with a USB-C to C cable. 35 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,640 That's a stylish cable. Very square. I heard it's hip to be that. 36 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:33,640 Yo, I saw people get upset sometimes at how carelessly I treat the accessories 37 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:37,840 and packaging for the stuff that I unbox. Look, if they can't handle what I'm doing to them, 38 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,920 they are never gonna survive that trip to your house with the FedEx or UPS driver. 39 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:45,680 Let's be real here, folks. Ooh, interchangeable lenses. 40 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,640 A concept that has never been any good and probably still isn't. 41 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:52,760 Actually, I've heard there are some that are decent. Are there some that are decent now? 42 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,320 Shall we? Does Xiaomi have a decent interchangeable lens? 43 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,120 Okay, all right. Well, you know what I have to say about that? 44 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,600 If you wanna match them, show me. Okay, what are you, 45 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:08,400 I'm gonna figure it out. God. Shoot, don't tell me step one. 46 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,040 Then tell me step two. You gotta do this other thing before step one. 47 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:16,000 Are you kidding me right now? I don't even feel bad for being confused by that. 48 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,520 Well, where is it? You know what? We're gonna try it later. 49 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:21,000 Wallet and stand. 50 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:26,400 We're like, Meg, dangerous, gonna break your shit. 51 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,520 Oh, wait, do I need this stupid thing? I need this stupid thing. 52 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,600 This is what has the magnet. This doesn't even have the magnet. 53 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:38,760 It's a universal cup. So the only thing modular about the interface 54 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,360 is you take off these screws and then you add the interchangeable lens 55 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,120 and the magnet feature that was supposed to have. How much is this thing? 56 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,240 25 euros. This is 25 euros. Okay, fine. 57 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:54,000 They only sell them in Europe and the UK. But you can't even buy the universal cover. 58 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Here's not very universal, then is it? But thank God I can put a lanyard on it. 59 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,800 Kind of nerd would use a lanyard in this year. 60 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:08,440 Oh my God, who would use a lanyard this big on their phone? 61 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,600 Hi, welcome to Best Buy. I hang my phone around my neck 62 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:17,200 because I literally want everyone to know what a slave I am to my digital devices. 63 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,960 What can I help you with? Like seriously? 64 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:26,320 Well, here's how you put it on anyway. Look at the profile of this thing off the phone. 65 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:31,240 I mean, it makes sense coming from the company. What brought you the giant camera bump 66 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,960 coming off this high, but like what? Do I tie it? Like do I tie it in a little bow back here? 67 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,160 Like what are you? Is this the style? 68 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,640 Is this what the kids are wearing? Do they walk the runway in this? 69 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,280 In Europe and the UK. Yeah, mom, I'm just doing a show right now. 70 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:49,760 Gotta go. I said I'll talk to you later, mom. 71 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:54,560 Cod! This is a trot just dude, it's like. 72 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,680 Let me have some people, they're wearing it. I like the sling. Yeah, it doesn't feel like a crossbody. 73 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:03,760 We could try the cross, let's try the crossbody because the, no, I look like an idiot. 74 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,040 Too long, it's supposed to be by your hip. 75 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:07,880 So convenient. 76 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:15,000 Okay, it comes with a screen protector. Let's get the SIM tray open. I could still be pleasantly surprised. 77 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:21,040 Whoa, SIM 2 micro SD. Oh, oh, we got expandable storage here, folks. 78 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,040 We got expandable storage. I was looking at it again, 79 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,160 I was expecting to find a headphone jack. You know what else we got in here? 80 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,280 This message from our sponsor. Dude, I feel like we barely scratched the surface of this thing. 81 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:34,840 Because it has a screen protector. Did it? Otherwise we would have scratched it pretty good. 82 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:38,520 Okay, let's play around with the camera. I got the wallet working. 83 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,880 Wallet, kind of mediocre stand. 84 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,800 But it's attached to your phone already, which is so convenient. 85 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,480 Oh dude, there's so much still to talk about. So much. Okay, you know what? 86 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,080 We'll get to the camera in a second then. Let's talk performance. One of the big selling points here 87 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,680 is the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro 5G chip set, 88 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:00,000 which as far as we can tell, is basically the same damn thing as the last one, 89 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,560 but like maybe a couple percent faster. That's not a terrible thing. 90 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,600 It's a pretty okay chip and it didn't thermal throttle in any of our testing, 91 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:13,480 but it wasn't much of an improvement over last gen. So realistically, if the phone feels more responsive, 92 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:18,480 that's probably coming down to the faster touch polling on the new device. 93 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,440 So it's still 120 Hertz display, supports variable refresh rate, 94 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,680 but the touch polling is far more frequent. 95 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,200 So it could feel a little more responsive in games. 96 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:36,680 And it has more AI? Also, apparently the screen can hit 3000 nits now. 97 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,280 Gosh, that's a lot of nits. Too bad it only does that 98 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,560 in like a special test file in Google Photos. 99 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,960 Hey, it's Wi-Fi 6 though, Bluetooth 5.3. 100 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,960 Okay, that's the same as the other CMF phone. I mean, I'm gonna find some stuff. 101 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,300 I'm gonna find some stuff that's different. You just wait. It's still pretty mind blowing 102 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:59,560 for a relatively affordable phone. I mean, we usually talk pricing at the end, 103 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,560 but I think it's one of the big highlights here. 280 US dollar for this thing. 104 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,400 That is a flippin' lot of phone for the money. 105 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,920 I mean, it even has NFC now. And you don't need the universal stupid thing 106 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,640 in order to have it. That was one of my biggest complaints with the original CMF phone. 107 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,880 And I know that in at least one of their main target markets, India, 108 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:25,480 QR codes are a much bigger deal than NFC, but NFC is a thing pretty much everywhere else. 109 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,920 And it's nice to have it. I don't wanna be locked out of using it as a feature. 110 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:34,640 Love to see it. No wireless charging still though. But hey, the wired charging is reasonably fast. 111 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:39,680 It'll do 33 watts, which, okay, it takes a little over an hour to reach a full charge, 112 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,200 but hey, it's a 5,000 milliamp hour battery, guys. 113 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:46,400 And we got over 18 hours of video playback in our test. 114 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,400 So what, half an hour to run for like, 115 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,680 friggin' nine, 10 hours? I still like their skin. 116 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,920 I did have some bugs with the 3A Pro, which were part of the reason that I abandoned it. 117 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,320 Like I would just get random music playback when I would disconnect it from Android Auto. 118 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,640 It would just like play a song for a little bit on the phone speakers, even if I didn't even have music on. 119 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,320 I don't love having to interact with this 120 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,960 multiple times every single time. I wanna be able to drag it all the way down. 121 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:18,640 I didn't actually realize that that's just an Android thing now. 122 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,640 So overall, my impressions of Nothing OS have been pretty positive. 123 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,120 I didn't personally find much use of the essential key. 124 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,520 It just wasn't that essential for me, but I do generally like the idea 125 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,040 of being able to add a quick voice note that I can refer back to later 126 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:38,640 and just having that go somewhere organized for me as an ADHD brain, it's pretty appealing, 127 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:42,240 but it's the kind of thing that I would really have to work to get in the habit of using. 128 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:45,280 And when I haven't locked into a phone just yet, 129 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,840 haven't put a ring on anything, it's hard to make that a habit. 130 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaking of putting a ring on things, why don't we fire up the camera and try out some of these interchangeable lenses? 131 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,960 Mid, quite mid indeed. Let's try the telephoto. 132 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,960 Less mid or bad. You know what though, I'm sure the lenses 133 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,200 are gonna fix this, fix it right up. Why would I bother with this? 134 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,880 This is, dude, this is trash. 135 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,360 Look at this chromatic aberration here. It's fish eye. 136 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,280 Yeah, it is. I don't wanna be a fish then cause they apparently can't see so good. 137 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:24,080 Let's check out the real texture on this D-brand skin. 138 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:29,640 This glow circuit skin. LTTstore.shortlinus.dbrand.com. 139 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:33,880 Wow, you can really see that texture. Damn. 140 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:37,920 The question is, do we even need it? Could we just go in macro mode? 141 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:43,400 Wait, does this not even have a macro mode? Well, wait, no, I get it. No, if I want my media to be macro, 142 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:44,880 I gotta get the flash. 143 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:51,120 Using the main shooter, just taking a shot from farther away. 144 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,400 You know what? Okay, the macro lens does something. It does something. 145 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,560 It does something. But hey, MagSafe. 146 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:00,560 Yeah, MagSafe. All right, selfie, ooh. 147 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:03,840 Is it euthanizing me? No, no, not that kind. 148 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,400 I mean, making me look more youthful. Oh my God. 149 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:12,480 If only my skin was that smooth. I don't even need no pores. 150 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:16,160 Who needs pores? That's like holes in your skin. You don't need that. 151 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,360 Oh, that's too bad. Did you see how good the color looked for a second 152 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,880 before it like bunged it? Take the picture. 153 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,520 See that? It like flattened it all out. Such a fluttered photo. 154 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:30,880 Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Okay, here, here, here. Here, here, check this out. 155 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:35,680 Check this out. Like I looked like I was alive and then it was like, nah, dude, you old. 156 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:38,840 Retouching natural, strong. Ooh. 157 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,880 Whoa, buddy. 158 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,480 Whoa, strong retouch. Damn. 159 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,960 Oh no, that's better. Okay, maybe it wasn't in no retouching mode. Okay, okay, that seems fine. 160 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,120 Poor choice of subject, but otherwise good photo. Oh yeah, speakers. 161 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,360 Okay, let's check these out. You know what? I have high hopes. 162 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,880 Nothing's quality for the price has generally been pretty good in my experience. 163 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,120 So I feel like these speakers are going to be stereo 164 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:09,640 and they're going to be pretty strong. Well, we were bound to find at least one reason 165 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:18,480 that it is not a flagship phone. The speaker is that reason. 166 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,080 Those are rough. I shouldn't say those. That is just one speaker. 167 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,680 That speaker, that speaker is rough. We haven't talked about the RAM yet. 168 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:28,720 It's got eight gigs of RAM. So if you like one gig of RAM, 169 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,280 you'll like this eight times more than that. But all you can expect at this price point, 170 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,360 three years of software updates, six years of security updates. 171 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:40,120 Oh yeah, and the screen is 6.77 inches for those of you who were kind of wondering about that 172 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:44,080 before. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. I'm going to keep looking at these bezels. 173 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,080 Decide whether to switch to this phone.