Nothing Phone 2 : Review And My Opinion
Nothing Phone 2 : Full Specifications And Review
If you look at some other popular phones that have this chip you'll realize most of them cost more than the nothing phone 2. even if you just compare the ones that are cheaper you're just left with let's say the Neo 7 Pro and the OnePlus 11R but then they don't have the transparent design the glyph interface and frankly they don't really have any standout feature and then by just spending a couple of extra bucks you can get a really uniquely designed phone with some features that are really different but before I talk about all of those different features I do want to address a couple of design issues with this phone look let's face it there is no other phone that quiet looks as different as the nothing phone too it looks really good you've got glass front and back with gorilla glass protection it's also ip54 rated for Splash and dust resistance so it's durable to some extent I love the flat surface I really like the thick rectangular edges and the wide flat buttons are great the weight is quite even and it doesn't feel heavy at all for a phone with a big display but wait design is more than just how things look it's also about the usability of the phone and the first thing is to do with the width of the phone look
Design Nothing Phone 1 vs Nothing Phone 2
I may have smaller than average hands but I've used a lot of phones and this feels really wide think about this this is actually wider than the iPhone 14 pro Max and that is a wide phone so just something to keep in mind the second thing is that this is glass it is going to lose shine over time it's going to get scratches and it's going to start looking not so good and so what are you gonna do you're going to put a case on this again just something to think about third the fingerprint sensor is a bit too close to the edge ideally it should have been placed more naturally right here but just some thing you'll have to get used to it though it works really fast so no issues fourth and this is a little weird if you bought this phone in India then you have to use an Indian SIM card to be even able to set up the device otherwise it's just a break so Indian customers only and fifth it still has a USB 2.0 port a little slow for 2023 and for that price tag but okay
See guys none of these design issues are deal breakers but just a couple of things I thought you guys should know but let's talk about the good stuff the stuff that really makes this phone different from all other Android smartphones out there look it's running nothing OS 2.0 on Android 13 but there are certain things about nothing OS that really makes it like no other Android phone and in a good way I mean you get functionalities foreign ties and customization that Android does not offer natively for example on the lock screen you can place some really useful widgets and you've got some native widgets that you could choose from and fill in the grid here but you know who else introduced this iPhone with their lock screen widgets and so basically nothing took the good stuff from IOS and gave it to you on Android again no other Android phone has this and by the way these widgets adapt to the office on display then you could also customize folders in different ways and give it its own look by selecting from all of these different options you could increase the size of specific app icons on the home screen and still have it look very coordinated with other round widgets that are of similar size you could place widgets for most system based actions right up on the home screen
which I think is super convenient and the fact it's got such a strong flavor of nothing design aesthetic throughout the UI of the phone be it the home screen widgets the volume bar the always on display widgets the brightness bar and even its very own where their app and even the sound effects throughout the UI just adds to that experience just hear it out and see that's what I'm talking about it is this uniqueness in terms of design Aesthetics in terms of os experience that you will just not get on any other phone in this price segment even if it offers the same Flagship chip now sure you can get yourself third-party launchers like Nova Launcher you could get kwgt widgets you can get icon packs and you can go through that whole shebang to get somewhat of this experience but because it's not going to be deep rooted in the experience it's just not going to be the same and wait there's plenty of other stuff I haven't even talked about like you can just long press the torch to just turn on the glyph lights as a soft light the glyph interface now has this progress meter light it indicates the volume levels as you change them it tells you how long until the timer is going to end or how long before your Uber or your zomato order arrives the essential glyph Lite it remains lit for notifications from apps that you feel are important the battery charging lift is also quite neat now the bad news is that all of this will look very cool to you in the beginning and over time you actually make it immune to all of this but the good news is that people around you will still find it cool some weird things too the built-in screen recorder it doesn't record at high resolution and there's no option for you to change that next the haptics on the keyboard are really strong and so strong that you could almost hear them right and there's no way for me to be able to control this it's either on or it's completely off the auto rotation sensitivity is also very weird I mean it rotates so quickly even when I really don't want it to and that I think is something that they really need to fix with like a software update or something also they've created a lot of this hype around the glyph composer first it's an app that you need to download from the Play Store and second you need to uninstall it because unless you're some genius musician who can create a Melody out of you know robotic tones it's a complete waste of time and lastly and very important you will get three years of Android upgrades and four years of security updates which I think is pretty good so you know with this phone you're at least sorted for the next two to four years now guys I'm not going to talk a lot about the performance because as I said it features last year's Flagship chip the Snapdragon 8 plus gen one so the performance on this is very good so there are three variants that you can buy from and you can just buy bases how much storage you need because there is no expandable storage now the phone runs insanely smooth I mean the animations are some of the finest that I've seen in across a lot of Android smartphones and you're gonna love it and obviously very smooth gaming no major heating it's just fine also uh speaking of performance the entire power delivery system on the nothing fonto has been upgraded from the nothing phone One battery capacity has gone up from 4500 to 4700 milliampere charging goes from 30 watts to 45 Watts so from zero to full in under 1 hour and given that this is now on a more power efficient chip you do get more battery per day now as compared to what nothing phone one was offering but mind you nothing more than a full day's battery okay by the end of the night you'll be through with it oh and by the way it does support wireless charging at 15 watts so just in case you do use wireless charging anyway now let's talk about the cameras so it's still a 50 megapixel camera but this time they've upgraded the sensor to the Sony IMX 890 you also get a 50 megapixel Ultra wide lens and a 32 megapixel front facing camera by the way the camera is set to default at 12 megapixel but you can switch to 50 megapixel if you want let's go ahead and check out some samples in the normal default 12 megapixel mode as you see here if you're glancing real quick they look quite nice and if you like high contrast saturated Punchy photos
Camera Sample Campair Iphone 13 vs Nothing Phone 2
I guess this is a pretty good camera system for that however for me personally this has too much contrast the colors are too bold the blacks or the Shadows are crushed and the dynamic range could definitely be better and I do think the details are on the Lower Side despite ample light around I actually quite prefer the picture quality indoors the colors were better the dynamic range was better and just the overall appeal is nicer even the low light photos were quite nice as long as there is some ambient lighting around however there were times when the camera did pick up quite a bit of noise especially in the sky area especially in this photo you'd see that while the subject looks absolutely fantastic the sky is absolutely ruined now here are primary and Ultra wide pictures placed side by side I can't help but notice that firstly the ultrawide really distorts the picture it does however have slightly better dynamic range though the white balance differs vastly from the primary camera and has this extremely cold blue tone to it which can sometimes really make your photos look bad in portrait mode uh most of the times I got decent shots good Edge detection good details however there were times when it didn't go too well for example in here the gingerbread cat should have been in Focus but it's not so it didn't quite identify and understand the object too well in this one too the fire hydrant should have been completely in focus and sharp but it's not and in here it didn't even understand what to focus on and let's talk about selfies so here are some shots that I thought were well taken but this one for example if you see it's a bit too magenta and then in low light just take a look at what happened here with the white balance completely thrown off and so so yellow and this is when the light around me wasn't even yellow uh let me show it to you here's a selfie in portrait mode next to the same light which as you can see is quite White and the white balance here is better so God knows why these photos turned out so yellow and even in portrait selfie mode this is probably the best one I got even this one a bit dramatic but I like it but then look at this Edge detection near my right ear not cool though most of the times it was fine now there are some other modes that you can see here there's also an expert mode so you can change all of these attributes and take pictures uh you've got a raw mode that you can enable if you want and within video you can shoot up to 4K at up to 60 FPS and have the option to switch to 30. and here are some other video options that you get but let's take a look at these sample so here's a 4K video that I shot using the primary camera all I can say is it's just okay I mean I still don't like how Punchy and contrasty this is the Shadows are definitely crushed the colors are too vibrant so it's not natural but if you like this tone then sure you would like this too the optical image stabilization Works quite well and I'm you know I'm walking and it's not as wobbly so that actually is good but overall video quality I would just say it's about six on ten so yeah you know all in all I think this is a great looking phone they've really upgraded the experience with so guys overall I think this is a great looking phone I mean they've really upgraded the experience with nothing OS 2.0 uh you've got the Snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 chip that really adds the power and performance and you get Android upgrades all the way up until Android 16. and guys on top of all of this this is truly a head turner because once you keep it on the table people around you are going to ask you what phone is that and so it's really much of a conversation starter but then it does come with its own flaws like decent cameras nothing great it is the glass that actually brings out that whole design right and over time it's going to lose its shine it's gonna have scratches and so it might throw that design out for a toss and even the novelty of this phone because of which you actually bought it it's going to disappear over time and so you'll pretty much be just left with the phone and even for the glyph interface while a lot of you may find very useful but for someone like me over time...
