iQOO Z9 vs Nothing Phone 2a Full Comparison - Which One to Buy?

we put up a poll recently asking you what video you'd like to see next of course you said xiaomi 14 versus 1plus 12 so that video is already live because your wish is our Command but the second most voted for comparison was one between the nothing phone 2A and the IU z9 you know what that was very interesting to me the main reason why you guys want a comparison between these two phones is because the io z9 at a much lower cost has the same chipset right I was like let's do this let's find out if the IU at a lower cost is better than the nothing phone 2A or should it spend more for the phone 2A if you're here for the first time I'm Asad you're watching track and T English your destination for detailed incisive Gadget reviews now when you talk about the build of both these phones both have a polycarbonate back of course but nothing does something very interesting with that polycarbonate back it has made it transparent and therefore it looks very attractive people are loving the design and compared to that the io z9 is regular looking right and you've also got two separate halves where the top half is taken up by the glyph lighting pattern and the bottom half is the design inspired by the New York subway and the glyph lighting is also very functional you get a progress bar you get notifications all of that very useful stuff so overall with respect to looks I definitely prefer the nothing phone 2 a now coming back to the build quality you get ip54 rating on both and for the glass protection you get Corola glass 5 protection on the nothing phone 2A and this one has Dragon Trail star 2 plus glass protection now let me just quickly drop this and see which one breaks quite a drop obviously none of these will break because both the glass protection are pretty good but in general Corning has a little bit of brand value you guys are aware of that so overall with respect to the looks and and durability I think nothing has a slight bit of an advantage over the iiko z9 now the IU z9 has one thing going for it and that is the fact that it is slimmer and slightly lighter than the nothing phone 2A now does that improve the in-hand feel I actually don't think so because I really like the curved you know pillowy back of the phone 2A and the inhand feel is really really nice in fact I like the inhand feel of the phone 2A better than the io z9 and if you're looking at the ports and button situation it's similar on both you get a type-c port at the bottom you get a dual Sy cut tray and you also get a speaker Grill mics volume butter power Buton all of that so overall when you look at the design and you look at the build quality of both these phones of course you're paying slightly more premium for the phone 2A because it's got those unique glyph patterns it's got a transparent design and it does look definitely very very good all right now let's talk about the display and multimedia experience because that is where you will be spending most of your time right so on both these phones you get the same 6.67 in full HD Plus AMOLED panel with 120 HZ refresh rate as well absolutely no difference in the metrics now HDR 10 plus is also supported on both the displays but you get HDR playback on both YouTube and Netflix on the you know more affordable IU z9 whereas nothing doesn't give you you know Netflix HDR which is a bit of a bummer now another thing is the brightness metric nothing phone 2A can reach a peak brightness when you're watching HDR content of about 1,300 nits and when you're taking it outdoors in high brightness mode it can reach 1,100 nits now on the iiko z9 you can reach a peak brightness of 1,800 nits when you're watching HDR content but IU hasn't provided us with the number for how much brightness it can reach in high brightness mode however when we took both of these displays outside we couldn't really tell the difference in brightness both were equally bright and legible uh under direct sunlight now brightness is one metric let's keep that aside but what matters more to me at least is the color accuracy of the display and that is where the IU z9 does a fantastic job because in the Pro mode the color tuning is really really good and this is something that IU gets from its DNA of tuning displays along with you know what we get with VI phones as well the pro color tuning is very very good in fact the color tuning is definitely better than the nothing phone to it that's for sure and of course it also has the advantage of HDR video playback support on Netflix now with respect to the speaker quality the nothing phone 2A speakers sound much much better than the io z9 take a listen to it for yourself and let me know what do you guys [Music] think now also a part of the display are the IND display fingerprint scanner and of course both are extremely fast to unlock no problem there and also part of the display is the haptic feedback engine and the nothing phone 2 a haptic feedback motor is Tighter and it's crisper for sure so overall when you're looking at the display and multimedia experience what I like about the IU z9 is that it is tuned really really well and that matters to me a lot and of course the fact that you also get hdr on Netflix but on the phone 2A the speaker quality is better so overall I would say it's a bit of a tie depending on what you pick but yeah I mean this is only if you compare them side by side but if you're using these devices you will be pretty happy with the display and multimedia experience okay now finally let's talk about the performance the io z9 has the demens 7200 and the nothing phone 2A of course has the dity 7200 Pro but after testing the performance on both these phones I'm really confused as to which really has the pro processor because here's the thing in an2 the io z9 scores more than the nothing phone 28 even in the CPU throttle test where we engage 43 thre for 30 minutes that IU z9 had 94% CPU stability this one had 84% CPU stability so tuning wise IU is doing it better than nothing that's for sure by the way one of the things I must definitely mention before I forget is that the iigo z9 has lpddr4x Ram type and ufs 2.2 which is also true for the nothing phone 2A but if you want a higher 12gb Ram variant then you can buy that only on the nothing phone 2A the io9 doesn't offer that 12gb Ram varant now one of the things that a lot of people were talking about is that the nothing phone to a stutters a lot but with the 2.5.4 update definitely uh those stutters have been removed also Ranjit mentioned one thing very pertinent and very important is that switch off the virtual Ram mode on the nothing phone 2A and those stutters will stop we tried it and that's actually true so overall with respect to the daily usage and smoothness of animations and everything actually prefer the nothing to animations but still I mean that's just a bit of a tossup now gaming wise both of these phones can play bgmi at 60 FPS smooth Extreme Graphics basically and Call of Duty at 90 FPS so overall with respect to gaming performance it's very good on both but IU z9 definitely performs better than the nothing phone 28 and that also comes from the experience of IQ tuning uh for gaming performance on many phones in the past and it does a fantastic job with the z9 as well so when you look at performance performance and hear those tiny little advantages will definitely matter for anybody who cares about performance a lot and the more affordable IU z9 beats the nothing phone 2A however the phone 2A is better than the io z9 when you look at Network and radio connectivity now with respect to Wi-Fi and bluetooth support you get Wi-Fi 6 and bluetoo 5.3 so that's not a problem but the nothing phone 2A has NFC support which the IU z9 doesn't also the nothing phone 2A supports more 5G bands which is 13 5G bands compared to 8 5G bands on the IU z9 so of course nothing phone 2 a wiins here now let's talk about the battery performance of both these phones both of these have a 5,000 m battery inside and of course the charging speeds are also very similar 45 W on the nothing phone 2 a and 44 W flash charge Technology support on the io z9 but here's the thing the io z9 bundles the charger inside the box which is a huge Advantage at that price that too nothing doesn't bundle that and you have to pay extra for it so that's a problem now with respect to battery performance we noticed that the battery life was very similar on both if you're actually pushing these phones like you know for gaming for videography for photography all of that then you can expect about 6 hours to 7 hours of scen on time but if you're using it like regular usage moderate usage you can easily expect 7 to 8 hours or even more more so overall battery performance wise both are better but the fact that IO provides the charger in the Box I think I will give it a little bit of an advantage sure but one area where the nothing 42a unequivocally wins for me is in the software experience because what you get is nothing OS 2.5.4 now based on Android 14 and nothing also promises 3 years of software updates and four years of security updates for the four in comparison the io z9 has Fouch o 14 based on Android 14 with promise of 2 years of software updates and three years of security updates and I've spoken at length about the software experience on both these phones but I really love the clean and neat software experience of the nothing phone 2A because of course the bloww has been kept to a minimum there are really really good functional advantages in the form of the enlarged folders the kind of widgets that are available on the lock screen itself which is damn nice font Choice also has a lot of features but of course with the IU z9 you do have bloww apps pre-installed plus even hot apps and hot games are on by default you can switch it off but they're there so yeah software experience wise for me the nothing phone 2 a wins now finally let's talk about the cam Camas so what you get on the nothing phone 2 a are more cameras you get a 50mp primary camera 50mp Ultra wide without autofocus which has been a huge problem for me and a 32mp selfie camera on the IU z9 you get a 50mp primary camera Sony IMX 882 and there's no Ultra wide and the secondary camera is actually a boka or a depth sensor and on the front you've got a 16mp selfie camera as well now you look at the primary camera details captured by both the phones both are pretty good if you ask me but the nothing phone 2A captures natural details compared to slightly oversharpened look of the IU now when we talk about colors the IU z9 is more consistent with the colors it's slightly warm but it is closer to Natural compared to the nothing nothing gets the colors itself wrong for example the color of the tomatoes here are wrongly captured by the nothing phone 2A compared to the IU z9 which gets it right when you look at the HDR processing the nothing phone 2A is HDR processing is very very good it brings out a lot of details from the shadows and the highlights are well controlled too in comparison the IU Shadows are crushed but I'm talking about HDR processing specifically when you're shooting landscape shots because when you have a person in the picture it goes for a toss and I'll talk about that really soon now shooting friends and family the skin tones on the nothing phone 2A are closer to Natural uh you can look at AR's skin tone out here and the io z9 makes it slightly warm and even when you zoom in and take a look at the details then the nothing phone 2A captures more details than the io z9 however when you're shooting people against the light nothing's HDR algorithm goes for a toss and you can see a lot of Bloom around the face the kind of HDR Bloom that we've associated with OnePlus phones that exists here so what the algorithm does here is that the moment it detects a face it realizes that it wants to Bright it and therefore it ends up brightening a lot of the scene around the face as well therefore io's natural processing looks very very good here and that's exactly what I was talking about with respect to landscape HDR processing and people HDR processing and in portrait shots I don't even have to say it out here IU's portraits look way better than the nothing phone 2A both these phones can also shoot uh 2x portraits and in that to IO looks better than the nothing phone 2A because the depth effect the depth mapping looks really good the gradual boka looks really good and the edge detection is also very good now one advantage of the nothing phone 2 is that you get the extra Ultra rde angle camera the 50m ultra wide angle camera but it's not a very good camera because it cannot do autofocus and we ended up with a lot of shots that were never in Focus now talking about selfies while the nothing phone 2A might have the higher resolution selfie camera the processing of the IU z9 is better if you ask me because what I noticed is that the skin tones are closer to Natural nothing might capture more details but the IU's pictures look more close to real life that apart when you shoot against the light uh you know io's HDR processing comes in handy because nothing's HDR processing messes up the shot also the portrait selfies look better on the io z9 plus the low light selfies are also better on the io z9 compared to the nothing phone 28 now with the primary camera on both these phones you can shoot 4K 30 FPS videos and nothing shoots at a higher bit rate so you definitely get more details on offer plus nothing's footage looks slightly more organic with the kind of depth information that is captured and the kind of light mapping that is done compared to the io z9 as well of course the io z9 also does a fantastic job of shooting 4K 30 FPS videos especially the audio quality sounded really really good all right so right now we are shooting the video sample using the I z9 all right so right now we are shooting the video sample using the io z9 so overall with respect to 4K 30 FPS video recording quality technically the nothing phone 2 is better but the io z9 could also look good to a lot of people now the other advantage on the phone 2A is that 1080p 60 FPS videos can be captured using the selfie camera whereas the IU z9 can only do 1080p 30 FPS and in terms of selfie video when we looked at the Quality the kind of video that was captured the nothing phone 2 video looked better than the IU z9 so it's clear to me from the testing that we've done on the cameras is that the IU z9 has a more mature algorithm that's been tuned well for so many years that it definitely doesn't miss a beat and is slightly more consistent when shooting pictures compared to the nothing phone 2A the nothing phone 2A generally struggles with multistack processing which is you know portrait mode or HDR now these are problems that nothing definitely needs to start fixing as soon as possible of course they've been issuing updates but cameras still seems to be an area where nothing can definitely improve but sometimes there are pictures that the nothing phone 2A can capture which the io z9 cannot and no I'm not just talking about the ultra wide angle camera I'm talking about landscape HDR pictures all right overall if you ask me the io z9 is a fantastic deal for the 400 rupees less that you pay for it compared to the phone 2A so if in your priority list performance takes the top spot and the primary cameras you know consistency is very very important then I would really recommend that we're going to for the phone 2A and pick the io z9 instead but pick the phone 2A if you are okay paying extra for the kind of design that nothing has made with it because of course that takes a lot of effort and apart from that pick it if you want a better software experience that's for sure so with that out of the way I hope this comparison was useful for you to make a decision on which phone should you buy and hopefully you also make this decision and if you do end up buying one of these phones let us know what your experience with this has been in the comment section below and I'll see you guys in the next one until then keep tracking and stay safe oh

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Length: 13min 2sec (782 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 24 2024