Nothing’s New Phone (3) and Headphone (1) Look Nothing Like You’ve Seen Before Leave a comment

The telephone has a grid design with three columns, representing the versatile printed circuit boards beneath. The triple-camera system is laid out alongside the highest of those grids with the Glyph Matrix show—extra on that in a second. It’s an uncommon type that breaks from round or rectangular digital camera modules in most telephones.

The Glyph Matrix is an evolution of Nothing’s well-known Glyph LEDs on prior telephones. Initially designed to gentle up when notifications arrived, it additionally used the lights creatively to point out how a lot time was left on a timer, or how shut your Uber driver was to your location. The brand new Glyph Matrix can do all that and extra, as a result of it acts extra like a show.

Nothing confirmed off a number of new “Glyph Toys” launching with the telephone, like the flexibility to see a pixelated preview of your self so you possibly can take selfies with the rear cameras. There’s additionally a spin-the-bottle recreation, a Magic 8 Ball that provides you a solution if you shake the telephone, and even a recreation of rock-paper-scissors. Intuitively, there’s just a little touch-sensitive circle under you need to use to cycle by these modes, as a substitute of getting to continuously swap backwards and forwards to the settings menu on the telephone’s entrance display. Nothing has launched a software program developer package, so anybody can create Glyph Toys for the telephone.

One other enjoyable characteristic is the little purple sq. on the again. Initially on the Telephone (2a), it is now greater than only a design accent. It lights up if you’re recording a video, similar to a recording gentle.

The telephone could not have the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite, as a substitute choosing the marginally lesser Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, nevertheless it nonetheless ought to ship flagship-grade efficiency, and the remainder of the specs rival opponents, particularly on the $799 value. Particularly notable is the usage of a silicon-carbon battery, a comparatively new expertise that allows denser batteries in thinner designs. Whereas it is barely thicker than its predecessor (by 0.2 mm), the 5,150 mAh is decently bigger than the 4,700 mAh within the Telephone (2).