WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.240 Get a pixel, they said. You haven't tried Android 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 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:10.920 that I've had to force close my app so many times 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 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, 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:26.200 it breaks all the time. And maybe the phone 2 Pro from CMF by nothing 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:32.480 is gonna be this solution. The 3A Pro wasn't, but third time's the charm. 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? 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:40.960 Welcome to nothing. Well, I'm not reading that, it's nothing, right? 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:44.000 No, sorry, sorry, the joke's old. Okay, what else we got here? 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. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.880 What is the point of it? The point of it is a decent value phone 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:58.160 with a decent processor at a fair price. And compared to the CMF phone one, 00:00:58.160 --> 00:01:01.840 there are some key improvements. For one thing, the ingress protection 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:07.160 is significantly better. It's now IP54 rated, instead of IP52, 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, 00:01:13.160 --> 00:01:16.880 a 50 megapixel telephoto with a 2X optical zoom, 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:21.680 an 8 megapixel ultra wide, and finally a 16 megapixel front camera. 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, 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, 00:01:31.880 --> 00:01:37.480 which personally I appreciate, especially the smaller camera bump compared to the 3A Pro. 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. 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. 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:47.320 We've got our lock button on the right, noise cancelling microphone on the top, 00:01:47.320 --> 00:01:51.600 volume rocker on the left, that's gonna make taking screenshots that easy. 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:55.080 USB-C on the bottom, that runs at USB two speeds. 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:59.560 Speaker, microphone, SIM tray, and not a whole lot else. 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.960 This is not in fact a dial. Nope, sorry, not a dial. 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:06.080 But at the back, we get the same modular interface 00:02:06.080 --> 00:02:10.360 that you know and love. Okay, you probably don't know it. 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:14.400 And odds are you probably don't love that they've actually changed it. 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.400 So any accessories for the original CMF phone 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:21.000 are not gonna work on this one. Whoops. Well, let's check it out anyway. 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. 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.640 That's a stylish cable. Very square. I heard it's hip to be that. 00:02:29.640 --> 00:02:33.640 Yo, I saw people get upset sometimes at how carelessly I treat the accessories 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, 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:41.920 they are never gonna survive that trip to your house with the FedEx or UPS driver. 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:45.680 Let's be real here, folks. Ooh, interchangeable lenses. 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:49.640 A concept that has never been any good and probably still isn't. 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? 00:02:52.760 --> 00:02:56.320 Shall we? Does Xiaomi have a decent interchangeable lens? 00:02:56.320 --> 00:03:00.120 Okay, all right. Well, you know what I have to say about that? 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:03.600 If you wanna match them, show me. Okay, what are you, 00:03:03.600 --> 00:03:08.400 I'm gonna figure it out. God. Shoot, don't tell me step one. 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:12.040 Then tell me step two. You gotta do this other thing before step one. 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. 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:19.520 Well, where is it? You know what? We're gonna try it later. 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:21.000 Wallet and stand. 00:03:22.920 --> 00:03:26.400 We're like, Meg, dangerous, gonna break your shit. 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:30.520 Oh, wait, do I need this stupid thing? I need this stupid thing. 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:33.600 This is what has the magnet. This doesn't even have the magnet. 00:03:33.600 --> 00:03:38.760 It's a universal cup. So the only thing modular about the interface 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:42.360 is you take off these screws and then you add the interchangeable lens 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:46.120 and the magnet feature that was supposed to have. How much is this thing? 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:49.240 25 euros. This is 25 euros. Okay, fine. 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. 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. 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.800 Kind of nerd would use a lanyard in this year. 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:08.440 Oh my God, who would use a lanyard this big on their phone? 00:04:08.440 --> 00:04:12.600 Hi, welcome to Best Buy. I hang my phone around my neck 00:04:12.600 --> 00:04:17.200 because I literally want everyone to know what a slave I am to my digital devices. 00:04:17.200 --> 00:04:20.960 What can I help you with? Like seriously? 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. 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:31.240 I mean, it makes sense coming from the company. What brought you the giant camera bump 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? 00:04:35.960 --> 00:04:39.160 Like what are you? Is this the style? 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.640 Is this what the kids are wearing? Do they walk the runway in this? 00:04:42.640 --> 00:04:46.280 In Europe and the UK. Yeah, mom, I'm just doing a show right now. 00:04:46.280 --> 00:04:49.760 Gotta go. I said I'll talk to you later, mom. 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:54.560 Cod! This is a trot just dude, it's like. 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. 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. 00:05:03.760 --> 00:05:07.040 Too long, it's supposed to be by your hip. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:07.880 So convenient. 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. 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:21.040 Whoa, SIM 2 micro SD. Oh, oh, we got expandable storage here, folks. 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:24.040 We got expandable storage. I was looking at it again, 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.160 I was expecting to find a headphone jack. You know what else we got in here? 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. 00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:34.840 Because it has a screen protector. Did it? Otherwise we would have scratched it pretty good. 00:05:34.840 --> 00:05:38.520 Okay, let's play around with the camera. I got the wallet working. 00:05:38.520 --> 00:05:40.880 Wallet, kind of mediocre stand. 00:05:41.760 --> 00:05:44.800 But it's attached to your phone already, which is so convenient. 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:48.480 Oh dude, there's so much still to talk about. So much. Okay, you know what? 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 00:05:52.080 --> 00:05:55.680 is the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro 5G chip set, 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, 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.560 but like maybe a couple percent faster. That's not a terrible thing. 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, 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, 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:18.480 that's probably coming down to the faster touch polling on the new device. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:22.440 So it's still 120 Hertz display, supports variable refresh rate, 00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:25.680 but the touch polling is far more frequent. 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.200 So it could feel a little more responsive in games. 00:06:30.200 --> 00:06:36.680 And it has more AI? Also, apparently the screen can hit 3000 nits now. 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:40.280 Gosh, that's a lot of nits. Too bad it only does that 00:06:40.320 --> 00:06:43.560 in like a special test file in Google Photos. 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.960 Hey, it's Wi-Fi 6 though, Bluetooth 5.3. 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. 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 00:06:55.300 --> 00:06:59.560 for a relatively affordable phone. I mean, we usually talk pricing at the end, 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. 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:07.400 That is a flippin' lot of phone for the money. 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:11.920 I mean, it even has NFC now. And you don't need the universal stupid thing 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. 00:07:15.640 --> 00:07:19.880 And I know that in at least one of their main target markets, India, 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. 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. 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. 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, 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:43.200 but hey, it's a 5,000 milliamp hour battery, guys. 00:07:43.200 --> 00:07:46.400 And we got over 18 hours of video playback in our test. 00:07:46.400 --> 00:07:49.400 So what, half an hour to run for like, 00:07:49.400 --> 00:07:52.680 friggin' nine, 10 hours? I still like their skin. 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. 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:00.320 Like I would just get random music playback when I would disconnect it from Android Auto. 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. 00:08:05.080 --> 00:08:09.320 I don't love having to interact with this 00:08:09.320 --> 00:08:13.960 multiple times every single time. I wanna be able to drag it all the way down. 00:08:13.960 --> 00:08:18.640 I didn't actually realize that that's just an Android thing now. 00:08:18.640 --> 00:08:22.640 So overall, my impressions of Nothing OS have been pretty positive. 00:08:22.640 --> 00:08:26.120 I didn't personally find much use of the essential key. 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:29.520 It just wasn't that essential for me, but I do generally like the idea 00:08:29.520 --> 00:08:34.040 of being able to add a quick voice note that I can refer back to later 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, 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. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:45.280 And when I haven't locked into a phone just yet, 00:08:45.280 --> 00:08:48.840 haven't put a ring on anything, it's hard to make that a habit. 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? 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:58.960 Mid, quite mid indeed. Let's try the telephoto. 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:02.960 Less mid or bad. You know what though, I'm sure the lenses 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:08.200 are gonna fix this, fix it right up. Why would I bother with this? 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.880 This is, dude, this is trash. 00:09:11.880 --> 00:09:15.360 Look at this chromatic aberration here. It's fish eye. 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. 00:09:19.280 --> 00:09:24.080 Let's check out the real texture on this D-brand skin. 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:29.640 This glow circuit skin. LTTstore.shortlinus.dbrand.com. 00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:33.880 Wow, you can really see that texture. Damn. 00:09:33.880 --> 00:09:37.920 The question is, do we even need it? Could we just go in macro mode? 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, 00:09:43.400 --> 00:09:44.880 I gotta get the flash. 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:51.120 Using the main shooter, just taking a shot from farther away. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:54.400 You know what? Okay, the macro lens does something. It does something. 00:09:54.400 --> 00:09:57.560 It does something. But hey, MagSafe. 00:09:57.560 --> 00:10:00.560 Yeah, MagSafe. All right, selfie, ooh. 00:10:00.560 --> 00:10:03.840 Is it euthanizing me? No, no, not that kind. 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:08.400 I mean, making me look more youthful. Oh my God. 00:10:08.400 --> 00:10:12.480 If only my skin was that smooth. I don't even need no pores. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:16.160 Who needs pores? That's like holes in your skin. You don't need that. 00:10:16.160 --> 00:10:19.360 Oh, that's too bad. Did you see how good the color looked for a second 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:21.880 before it like bunged it? Take the picture. 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:27.520 See that? It like flattened it all out. Such a fluttered photo. 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. 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. 00:10:35.680 --> 00:10:38.840 Retouching natural, strong. Ooh. 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:41.880 Whoa, buddy. 00:10:41.880 --> 00:10:45.480 Whoa, strong retouch. Damn. 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. 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:53.120 Poor choice of subject, but otherwise good photo. Oh yeah, speakers. 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:56.360 Okay, let's check these out. You know what? I have high hopes. 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.880 Nothing's quality for the price has generally been pretty good in my experience. 00:10:59.880 --> 00:11:03.120 So I feel like these speakers are going to be stereo 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 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:18.480 that it is not a flagship phone. The speaker is that reason. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.080 Those are rough. I shouldn't say those. That is just one speaker. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:25.680 That speaker, that speaker is rough. We haven't talked about the RAM yet. 00:11:25.680 --> 00:11:28.720 It's got eight gigs of RAM. So if you like one gig of RAM, 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, 00:11:32.280 --> 00:11:35.360 three years of software updates, six years of security updates. 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 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:44.080 before. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. I'm going to keep looking at these bezels. 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:46.080 Decide whether to switch to this phone.