Nothing has announced another phone under its colorful sub brand CMF: Phone 2 Pro. Like the first CMF phone, it is a modular handset that has additional accessories that you can make space. And also, like the first CMF phone, it is not getting US official release.
Buy itself phone 2 Pro and you find surprisingly well -specific budget android handset, which contains a decent triple rear camera system, a bright 120 herits OLED screen, and 128GB storage. But the original appeal is the modular advership array: a screw on case, a kick stand card purse combo, a bright orange color, and a pair of changed camera lens.
Nothing has changed its view a bit since Phone 1. While the owners of this phone can remove their backpat to attach alternatives, this is no longer an option here. Instead, the core-algales are damaged above the current backpack of the sale-phone, which may not make anything that has made the IP54 from IP52 to the water-avoiding jump. Then the new accessories are attached to the cover, the kick stand depends on its built -in magnet and the lens only click in a plastic ring around the main camera.
The lens here is the biggest new addition. Selling as a pair, you get a fish and macro, each of which only sits on the current important lens. Fish is a bit right with my expectation – you’ll have to do a little work to find a shot that really accelerates the effect – so I think the macro will see more use. In cheap phones, macro photography is usually terrible, which already depends on inferior ultra -wide cameras, and I prefer the results to be trimmed.
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Lenayard is the only accessory from the original phone 1 that still works with 2 pro, and it is the only one that does not require a cover to work, rather than covering circular devices in the bottom corner of the phone. I am at least 10 years old to pull my phone to take it like this, but I just did it in the name of science, and just felt the amazing embarrassment of the panic to make a contract lace.
Putting aside aside, I love everything about the idea of ​​CMF ecosystem – modular tech is just fun, kicks it, and especially when it’s also cheap – but I have some ability to implement here. Most modules require a cover to enable the modules if they are part of the draw for you, make it an essential purchase. But the tech involved in it is just a magnet and a little plastic around the camera, and it could be easily made on the phone.
There is a tension between the desire to advance any interesting modular environmental system and the need to use the CMF as a platform for buyers on the budget, and thus the out -of -box experience is in clashes with everything. For example: Phone 2 Pro ship with a clear plastic protective case, but it is not compatible with the (low protective) screw on cover.
I am more angry with another clear inconvenience between Lenayard and Kick stand case. Present the phone with a portrait format and it enhances a corner, which rotates the whole thing and keeps it unbalanced. This may be fine – it would be quite reasonable if anything did not intend to connect anyone to every module at the same time – except that the company’s own promotional imagery is being used in the same way, in which both corners are sitting firmly on the ground.
I am also worried about longevity here. In nine months since the launch of the CMF phone 1, its accessories are not included. And now it is releasing a follow -up that uses a new system and is mostly unable to cooperate with the original bits. The modular ecosystem demands many options that cannot be included over time, and so far there is no sign that there is a plan.
The good news is that the phone is impressive in its heart. I am using it only three days or more, but the performance has been smooth, the battery has been comfortable until the end of the day, and the camera, including 50 megapixel 2x telephoto, is better than expected. There are some small problems – especially some strange silent colors in the View Finder, which are fortunately not translated into the ultimate pictures – but here’s not too much to complain.
Phone 2 Pro operates the same software as nothing is other phones, reaching Android 15 and promising six years of security patch as well as three -year update of OS. It also includes AI -powered “essential space”, which is not introduced with the phone 3A devices, which is the same dedicated key to activation. You can use it to take screenshots and camera captures and save it in the required space with optional sound notes and reminders. Does it need the whole button? I don’t know, but it seems that there is still one of the most practical implementation of AI on a smartphone.
The phone 2 Pro is now available for pre -order, with the official release on May 6, starting at 219 / € 249 for 128 GB storage in Europe, which has increased to £ 249 / € 279 for 256GB. In the United States, you can also buy it only through the “beta program” of anything, which comes with a warnings about potential hiccups and any post -sale support on US carriers, and it will return you 979 for the 256 GB model. Modular accessories are not available in the United States at all, and only in Europe will only have “limited quantities”, which will start at £ 25 / € 25 for laniards and will reach 65 / € 65 for a bundle, including core, kick stand and lenses.
Along with the new phone, nothing has revealed the revelations of the budget airbuds. The buds 2, 2 Plus, and 2A all have borrowed aesthetic-and-rotating “smart dial”-which has been seen on Pro 2 last year’s buds. 2A for 2A for 2A and 2 plus 2 and 2 plus for 2a for 2A, all three models include active noise cancer and water strife and water strife on the plus.
Photography of Dominic Preston / The Verge
