Re:Review introduces early reviewer reactions, pricing details, and unboxing highlights, including the surprising inclusion of a charger and case. Along the way it covers Design & Modular Accessories, Display & Audio Performance and Software & Performance, and more. A comparison with the Nothing Phone 3A leads into a final summary of the CMF Phone 2 Pro's high value and overall recommendation.
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Re:Review introduces early reviewer reactions, pricing details, and unboxing highlights, including the surprising inclusion of a charger and case.
On screen: A man with short brown hair and a brown button-up shirt over a white t-shirt is speaking directly to the camera, against a red background with a dynamic grid of nine smaller video thumbnails showing various people…
An overview of the thinner and lighter build, updated IP rating, and the Universal Cover system supporting magnetic snap-on accessories.
On screen: A man, blurred in the background, holds a red smartphone with multiple camera lenses in sharp focus, interacting with its screen.
Reviewers examine the 120Hz AMOLED display's peak brightness and Always-On capabilities alongside the limitations of the single mono speaker.
On screen: A hand holds a red smartphone horizontally, displaying a video game with characters fighting in a desert-like environment, while 'TECH SPURT' logo is visible in the top left.
Explores the smooth Nothing OS 3.2 user experience, update longevity, gaming performance, and unique additions like the Essential Key and Private Space.
On screen: A man wearing glasses and a white shirt holds a black smartphone towards the camera, displaying a menu about private space settings, with a white CMF Phone box visible in the blurred background against a blue wall.
A breakdown of the triple-lens camera array, evaluating photo results across the 50MP main sensor, 2x portrait lens, and 8MP ultrawide shooter.
On screen: A white smartphone with three camera lenses on its back is centered against a white and light gray background, with various camera specifications appearing on screen.
Details the multi-day battery endurance and key feature additions such as NFC support for payments and MicroSD expandability.
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A comparison with the Nothing Phone 3A leads into a final summary of the CMF Phone 2 Pro's high value and overall recommendation.
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0:00 Speaker A: Most instantly recommendable phone on the planet. Speaker B: An attractive price tag. Speaker C: All of my original mourns about that first phone have pretty much been wiped out. Speaker D: Simplest recommendation I've ever made. Speaker E: Welcome back to re review where we watch all the reviews so you don't have to Today we're diving deep into the CMF phone 2 Pro by nothing. Speaker E: A phone that seems to be punching way above its weight class. Speaker E: Let's see what the reviewers had to say. Speaker C: This budget happy blow will cost you just 219 quid or €249 and you can double your storage for just 30 pund extra like those rip off merchants, Apple, Google, etc.
0:37 Speaker D: It's just not very much money at all, is it? Speaker D: For a smartphone with those specs, it's. Speaker A: Claiming to be able to do so much more that if it actually pulls it off, this is going to become like the most instantly recommendable phone on the planet. Speaker E: So incredible potential value. Speaker E: But what are you actually getting when you open the box? Speaker F: The very first upgrade is that the box has gained some weight and it's not fat, it's pure muscle mass. Speaker F: I say this because the box has got two very useful and essential components which were missing last year.
1:03 Speaker F: A 33 watt charger in the box and a transparent silicone case. Speaker E: Alright, charger and case included. Speaker E: A great start. Speaker E: Let's look at the phone itself and how the design has evolved from the first CMF phone. Speaker A: If we hold the Phone two Pro side by side with the Phone one, I mean there's a whole extra third camera, there's a very unique feeling button on the side that they're calling the essential key. Speaker A: And just generally the body of the phone is a little bit more refined. Speaker A: Kind of like the Phone one just went to the gym and it's a little curvier so it doesn't dig into your hands as much.
1:32 Speaker F: Sacrificing the customizability actually helped them make this phone thinner and lighter. Speaker F: Compared to last year. Speaker F: It's in fact the thinnest nothing phone ever. Speaker F: At just 7.8mm in thickness and 185 grams in weight, the CMF Phone 2 Pro feels a lot more comfortable in hand. Speaker F: And it's not only because of the dimensions. Speaker F: The edges are also rounded this time, which makes it easy to hold even for long hours. Speaker C: Nothing has boosted the IP rating for the CMF Phone 2 Pro to IP50, so you can get a bit more moist than the old one and not get too stressed about it.
2:03 Speaker B: And I like the fact that the different colors of the CMA Fold 2 Pro all bring different things to the table. Speaker B: And this light green we have and the black has a plastic back with a sort of frosted glass like finish. Speaker B: The orange, which looks fantastic in person, has a dual tone finish with the metallic finish on the bottom part. Speaker B: The Y2 has a dual tone finish with the bottom featuring a sort of sandstone finish. Speaker B: All of them also have body color matching buttons, no silver buttons. Speaker E: The slimmer, more refined design did mean sacrificing the fully swappable backs of the so how does the new accessory system.
2:32 Speaker G: Compare now with the phone one Modularity, the swappable backs and all those accessories we could add, that was a major selling point, but that was a Gen1 product, so nothing says they did come across two major issues. Speaker G: Number one, the whole modularity of it kind of upped the thickness of the phone. Speaker G: And number two, screwing in the accessories. Speaker G: Now, users weren't finding that all that convenient. Speaker A: You've still got the screws, but the back plate is actually glued onto the phone now, which is what's allowed them to make the phone slimmer.
2:59 Speaker A: It's what's allowed them to improve the IP ratings. Speaker A: But it also means that you're losing one of the key pieces of DNA that I think made the original so special. Speaker G: They're calling this a universal cover. Speaker G: Instead of replacing the back panel, it kind of gets screwed onto the top of the back panel. Speaker G: And this brings with it magsafe like functionality not for wireless charging, but for accessories. Speaker G: You can just magnetically attach them and remove them. Speaker G: It makes the whole accessory swapping part a lot more convenient.
3:25 Speaker C: And what you've got here is a pair of new camera lenses which you can actually slap on top of the primary shooter here on the CMF Phone 2 Pro. Speaker C: And this drastically changes the functionality. Speaker C: So for instance, you've got a macro lens which allows you to get really up close to your subject. Speaker C: While the second effort is a fisheye lens. Speaker C: So again offers up a different viewpoint. Speaker H: The case also allows you to snap onto this lanyard that you can put right here and then tighten it using this.
3:53 Speaker H: And after you've tightened it, you can use the loop to hang this phone around your neck or tie it around your waist. Speaker B: There's this magnetic wallet which also works as a phone stand. Speaker E: Let's turn to the front again. Speaker E: The display sees some nice improvements, but the audio experience seems less impressive. Speaker D: The display is just amazing. Speaker D: A 120Hz refresh rate, 3,000 nits of peak brightness. Speaker D: I think the bezels are very, very acceptable. Speaker C: The big improvement here is a boost to the brightness compared with the previous generation.
4:20 Speaker C: I found that I could see this panel absolutely fine even on qu sunny day. Speaker F: This time you also get always on display, which was not there earlier. Speaker G: This is also a 10 bit AMOLED panel with 120Hz refresh. Speaker G: There are more adaptive refresh options and if you're sensitive to OLED flicker, there's PWM dimming 2160 hertz. Speaker C: However, the audio side of things not quite as accomplished unfortunately. Speaker C: It's a basic mono speaker setup on here, so all of the sound is blasted out of the tiny WI speaker housed in the bottom edge here.
4:53 Speaker B: Turns out it's actually worse than the CMF phone 1. Speaker B: The speaker here is pretty average in terms of bass or even clarity for that matter. Speaker A: But it does have one twist, a new feature called Ultra volume where you can go 50% above max volume and it does actually make a big difference. Speaker A: This is what the phone would normally sound like to you on max volume. Speaker A: Now we're going to go up to boost volume.
5:23 Speaker E: Powering the experience is nothing os 3.2 let's hear about the day to day performance in those unique software touches. Speaker A: The software is smooth, like really, really smooth. Speaker A: It's smooth enough that you completely forget when you're using this thing that it isn't like an upper mid range 600 pound device. Speaker F: Software experience is the same on all nothing phones. Speaker F: It's clean, it's simple, it's minimal. Speaker F: There are no ads, no bloatware and it just works.
5:48 Speaker F: This phone is running on nothing OS 3.2 based on Android 15 and will get three major OS updates and six years of security patches, which is actually very good in this segment. Speaker C: It's a mostly stock Android sort of vibe, refreshingly little crapware that you have to uninstall. Speaker A: And then we've got this rather curious essential key, which is this very unique feeling rounded glossy button. Speaker A: So you press this button, it takes a screenshot and it gives you the option to add a note.
6:15 Speaker A: You hold this button, it takes a screenshot and lets you give a voice command. Speaker A: And then you double tap this button and it opens up your essential space where all of this stuff is being collected. Speaker G: Essential space is still a work in progress, so my take on the essential key, it still remains the same. Speaker F: Now the newest feature that this phone has is the private space. Speaker F: This is actually an Android 15 feature, but no other phone has it yet. Speaker F: Basically it lets you have a separate hidden space on your phone with private files, private photos, Private cameras, private apps, and even a private Google account.
6:44 Speaker B: Gaming is good too. Speaker B: Cot mobile runs without any problems. Speaker B: BGMI has 120fps support out of the box and it runs without any lags or stutter. Speaker B: Now the phone does get slightly warm after a long gaming session, but it's definitely not heating the Pro in. Speaker E: The name heavily hints at the camera upgrades. Speaker E: We now have a triple lens system. Speaker E: Let's see how it performs. Speaker F: It's a proper triple rear camera setup with 50 megapixel main camera, which is the same as the nothing phone 3A but without the OIS, an 8 megapixel ultra wide and a 50 megapixel telephoto lens with 2x optical zoom.
7:14 Speaker F: And yeah, you also get a 16 megapixel selfie camera. Speaker D: Nothing has been very smart here in terms of what they've taken away and what they've left in so for instance, we don't get optical image stabilization. Speaker D: The video side of things, we can shoot in up to 30 frames per second, but not 60. Speaker D: Fine, it's 4K by the way, on the back. Speaker D: On the front you can only shoot in 1080p at 30 frames per second. Speaker D: Here's an example 1080p only there's no. Speaker C: 4K and between this pair you can grab yourself some decent pics of your family and your fuzzy pals.
7:44 Speaker C: Action shots are impressively sharp, free from blur. Speaker C: As long as that lighting isn't rubbish. Speaker C: You got the same XDR image processing as Nothing phones to capture balanced high contrast scenes. Speaker C: While tones are fairly close to what you'll get in real life. Speaker C: Although I did see some saturation in sunnier conditions and low light shots on. Speaker A: Plagued by noise, the difference is immediately obvious. Speaker A: Like side by side with the last already pretty good budget camera shots are brighter, they're crispier, they have more depth.
8:13 Speaker B: Portraits look good in terms of blur and edge detection, but I did feel that the face wasn't always sharp. Speaker B: And the moment you go indoors, the 2x lens does tend to mess up the skin tones. Speaker B: And maybe it's the lack of OS, maybe the optimization. Speaker C: And that third and final lens is a basic 8 megapixel ultra wide angle shooter, which isn't too hot. Speaker C: But hey, at least you've got the option. Speaker H: So now you can snap on these lenses that are the interchangeable lenses at the back of this phone and have some more photography capabilities from this device.
8:41 Speaker E: Finally, let's talk endurance and connectivity areas, which the original CMF phone had some notable omissions. Speaker C: Battery life on this thing is rather ruddy good found if you're quite a light user with general mixed use, you'll probably get around 8 to 9 hours of screen on time from a full charge. Speaker D: Battery performance is rated at 2 days in normal use. Speaker D: That's probably about right. Speaker D: To be fair, it feels like a very good battery. Speaker D: No, it doesn't have wireless charging, but again that's a fair and obvious concession at this price point.
9:10 Speaker C: Nothing has sorted out one of the major grumbles of the original CMF Phone one, and that's the fact that it had bugger all support for NFC for contactless payments. Speaker C: Thankfully not a problem here on the CMF Phone 2 Pro you've got your NFC. Speaker C: As you can see, the second SIM slot can actually house a Micro SD memory card Instead, up to 2 TB in size. Speaker E: We've seen the features, the good the bad. Speaker E: But how does the CMF Phone 2 Pro really compare when you put it against its siblings, the nothing phone 3A, especially considering the price difference.
9:41 Speaker F: So for a difference of around six to seven thousand rupees you will get almost a similar experience. Speaker F: Of course the camera might not be as good as the Phone 3A, but it's still going to be the most versatile camera setup in the segment. Speaker I: I must say I am so impressed with the CMF phone considering its price. Speaker I: Guys, for £219 you are getting a really good phone with a telephoto lens Portrait photography Pretty amazing. Speaker I: In fact I am a bit disappointed with the Nothing Phone 3A Pro because it's twice as expensive, but you can't really see the difference unless you have a look at the selfie camera.
10:17 Speaker F: The nothing phone 3A has its advantages in terms of a more premium transparent glass back design, NFC support, better IP rating, stereo speakers, and obviously a more reliable camera setup with OIS in the main. Speaker F: Camera 3A also supports faster charging, but Nothing beats a charger in the box. Speaker E: The consensus on The CMF Phone 2 Pro is overwhelmingly positive, especially considering the price. Speaker E: You're getting a significantly refined design that's thinner, lighter, a broader, brighter, high refresh rate AMOLED display with always on functionality, and that famously smooth Nothing OS experience with excellent software support.
10:50 Speaker E: The inclusion of NFC and microSD card support fixes major omissions from the first generations and getting a charger in a box is a huge bonus. Speaker E: The main and telephoto cameras seem surprisingly capable for the cost, even honing their own against more expensive nothing phone 3a in specific scenarios like 2x portraits. Speaker E: According to some reviewers. Speaker E: However, it's not perfect. Speaker E: The move away from truly swappable backs might disappoint some fans of the original's unique modularity.
11:17 Speaker E: The audio is a clear step down with a weak mono speaker, while the cameras offer great versatility for the price, the lack of OIS impact stability, the ultrawide is basic and the image processing consistency, particularly with skin tones and colors, was noted as an area of improvement. Speaker E: Plus, the essential key features still feel somewhat underdeveloped, but ultimately for around 220 pounds or 250 Euros, the sheer amount of phone you're getting here is hard to argue with.
11:43 Speaker E: If you're looking for a budget Android phone that feels far more premium for its price tag, offers a clean software experience, fixes the key flaws of its predecessor, and delivers a highly versatile camera system for the Money, the CMF Phone 2 Pro emerges as a strong contender and for many, an easy recommendation. Speaker E: That's it for our ultimate roundup review of the CMF Phone 2 Pro. Speaker E: Please find links for full videos down below and subscribe for more re reviews where we watch all the reviews so you don't have to.