Nothing Phone (2) is the alternative choice, a high-tech handset designed to wean you off digital distractions without compromising quality or function
with – unsurprisingly – the Nothing Phone . We get hands-on with this evolution of the esoteric company’s latest device, noting its key features and the ways in which it diverges from the smartphone standard.
The Phone ’s big point of difference was its disavowal of shiny solid materials in favour of a transparent look that revealed the inner workings of the device. Phone is more of the same: once you’ve torn into the plastic-free packaging and shunned the hollow unboxing ritual, you’re greeted with a ‘naked’ device, with layered elements delineated by Nothing’s ‘Glyph’ interface. The latter is a series of hieroglyphic-style lights that serve multiple functions in the Nothing OS 2.
To this end, the new OS also features a number of custom widgets, effectively compartmentalising your most used apps into tiles you can check at a glance, without having to open them. These can also be put on the lock screen, further minimalising the need to fire up the phone. We were also impressed by the Phone ’s camera system, which has not only been upgraded with new filters, a document mode, and the ability to record 4K video at 60fps, but delivers impressive levels of detail and colour via the Advanced HDR function. This digital blend of eight varying degrees of exposure ) creates vivid, crisp photographs, albeit with that sheen of processed perfection we’ve come to expect from our smart devices. The front camera sensor is also doubled in capacity.
Should you upgrade? Phone fans will find more of what they love in the , but their enthusiasm might be tempered by the thought of replacing a perfectly good device with something so shiny and new; sustainability and transparency are central to the Nothing ethos. Amongst other initiatives, the company publishes the carbon footprint of its devices, giving the Phone a figure of 53.45kg. This 8.
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