Switching from iPhone to Nothing Phone (2)

the nothing phone 2 represents something we haven't seen before in an Android phone Innovation or at least that's what Innovation said to Casey neistat on the launch of the nothing phone too but is that actually true is the phone 2 really that much better is it Innovation is it different enough to make me want to keep it starting with the whole look feel and design of the phone too and I have to give it to them personal opinion I do love the design the whole like back of this phone looks stunning the coils the transparent design the LEDs and the Really subtle curve on the back glass does make it way more comfortable to hold in the hands and then you've got the button placement the power button on the right hand side the volume on the left and even the placement of the fingerprint sensor at the bottom is pretty close to the design of an iPhone with the touch ID bottom at the bottom of the phone and just from the hardware perspective on its own I say that it feels like they've got the closest design here to tempt someone away from an iPhone now if you just hold it side by side with an iPhone 14 pro Max they are practically identical it feels like an iPhone in the hand Innovation it's kind of like one of those air up water bottles that helps you drink water whilst tricking your brain into thinking you're drinking Coke or something else but that depends on where you are in the level of flagships that you are used to buying now if you're used to buying the s23 ultra or the iPhone 14 pro or Pro Max then this is a downgrade but if you are used to non-pros then this could be a good option now there is one area in the design that I'm not a fan of though and that is the haptics like going from an iPhone or a pixel or really any other Flagship level phone that I've used they just feel lacking other phones I've used really make it feel like you're hitting an actual bus and when tapping on each key but the phone too just feels like well something else inside is buzzing the nothing phone 2 just feels underwhelming and where others in a way feel quite full and Bassy with theirs the phone 2 feels very top end and tinny with the haptic vibrations now the biggest design Innovation with nothing going to is of course the glyph interface now phone one had 12 addressable LEDs on the back but phone 2 has taken that up to 33 which opens up some interesting use cases you still got the charger wiggle to see how charged your phone is but now there are things like a countdown timer to visually see the countdown you've got visual volume levels it can react to the Google Assistant what's the weather like it's 21 and partly cloudy and apps like Uber support the ability to see how close your ride is uh fun facts almost all the people showing you how this Uber thing works yeah they didn't actually order an Uber they just started a countdown timer otherwise they'd have to actually order an Uber otherwise it's very similar to last year's model you can flash the lights in various patterns for phone calls or notifications you can also set a specific sequence for calls or messages from certain people now is this Innovation though visually I think it is but is it any difference to Samsung's incredible Zoom features iOS 70s recent software updates Ultra fast wireless charging or even the latest generation Flip or foldables let me know in the comments down below and whilst you are down there I would love if you consider subscribing to see more videos like this if that's something you're into we've just hit 100 000 subscribers on this channel which is absolutely nuts and I celebrated by eating a hamburger by myself I don't really advertise this much but I also have a Discord group linked down below if anyone wants to hang out and chat about tech and I'll also share a little bit of the behind the scenes of what's going on to run this channel but back to the glyphs what do you think is this an innovation or is it just a gimmick now I recently ran a poll and it seems that 80 of people just slap on a case and a screen protector to their phone and with nothing phone being a fairly Niche device case options are relatively thin on the ground and there's also one other thing that I've never been a fan of which is turning my phone face down on the table and then risk scratching the glass on the screen which the phone too of course only just encourages you to do more of and then we've got the cameras and this is always a very subjective thing from phone to phone but given that taking photos is something that's pretty much everybody does with their phone I would hope for a second generation phone to perform well when compared to flagships at least but the phone 2's cameras are objectively bad for 70 pounds more for example you can get a pixel 7 Pro and when you compare them side by side there is just no comparison like photos on the pixel are far better exposed particularly when you shoot in challenging environments with harsh light and even more so when using the front-facing cameras on these phones Now videos also far better on the pixel particularly when shooting into like Sunny backgrounds like this the nothing phone really struggles to kind of expose the background it just blows it out it's all white you can't see anything whereas I think you'll be able to see it on even on a cloudy day like today with the pixel 7 Pro you'll be able to see that um you can still make out what's in the background or the clouds and you know all those kind of things so just to show you a bit what the video and the audio quality is like on the nothing phone too I'm going to tell you a quick story of when I went to Ikea and I was super super in a rush I just wanted to get in and get something and I got an email on my phone to say that my Apple password had been changed I was like well I haven't changed my Apple password so straight away stay on the email checked out all looked okay so I went on to the Apple's website or I actually I followed the link in the email important part follow the link in the email and click the links change my password I was like cool okay carried on with my shopping then I was like ah damn let me just have a look at that email again and then I had a look at the email and realized that even though it said like icloud.com in the address bar at the top it was like icloud.com.something.something.something.com and so it wasn't actually apple and I actually got caught out which is quite embarrassing given that I used to run an I.T company and actually I ran an I.T company at the time of me having that email clicking on the link and giving away my password normally I would say that iPhone users don't really need to worry about security and actually there's more reason to run today's sponsor bitdefender Total Security on an Android phone since iPhone's app store is way more secure but you just heard me say that I got tricked when getting an email just at the right time which caught me off guard when I was 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six hours of screen on time in general day-to-day Usage Now you also get features such as wireless battery share which lets you charge other devices if you and your friends are in a pinch and that's helped even more with up to 45 Watts wide charging speeds so you can get fully charged in less than an hour and so all of that is really good considering that it's using last year's Snapdragon 8 gen 1 chip which does come as a bit of a letdown now don't get me wrong here like if this phone came out last year all the reviewers would have been saying that the Snapdragon 8 gen 1 chip is incredible and to be fair it is that performance is Snappy the phone doesn't feel slow but for a 2023 device that's trying to rival the flagships who are all running the Next Generation Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip or you just have a phone that's already a year behind but if you don't care about an apples to Apple's comparison on specs then you won't be disappointed with the performance of this phone and the fact that it can get through a full day on a single charge also shows they have put a ton of work into optimizing that gen 1 chip the only area I would say it falls down on for me in terms of performance is the fingerprint sensor now I've had to set up my fingerprint a couple of times now on this phone because at times it just doesn't work it tells me that my finger's dirty and I tried fixing that by adding the same finger a couple of times but that doesn't work as it tells you that you've already added the same finger which can be really really frustrating because when it works it works really really well it's really fast you also do get face unlock which can be a way around this and that works well but it is certainly a compromise with using an optical sensor which shines a bright light onto your finger over an alternative you know more reliable option that's aside the screen is really really nice like 120 hertz which ramps down to one Hertz which given the battery performance does do its job really well it's also bright enough to see in the sunshine though not as bright as other flagships and given that it has practically the same size front screen as an iPhone 14 pro Max but only has a pinhole camera on the front it gives you way more screen to enjoy with no silly Dynamic Edge Island thing at the top taking up a ton of space Also shout out to Max on Twitter he pointed out the phone too doesn't currently support HDR for Netflix so if you watch a ton of Netflix on your phone then you might want to take that into account but as he also pointed out given phone 2 has a good Peak brightness and support for HDR 10 plus perhaps that is something that could come later with the phone 2 you get nothing to take on Android with their nothing OS and it works well I'm glad to see that over time they are improving there is definitely less bugs this time around but for me nothing OS feels quite limited which for an Android phone isn't normal when you start the phone you get the option to choose between nothing's black and white interface which just skins every everything including the icons to the black and white versions but you can also use the color versions if you wish and I only lasted around an hour on the black and white interface it looks really cool but I couldn't for the life of me get on with having everything look the same I guess as you get used to having apps in you know certain places then your muscle memory would get good at just knowing where to go but it just didn't work well for me and then there's outside of this changing the wallpaper and the icons that's kind of it but of course with it being Android you can install something else like Nova Launcher to gain back that customizability on practically everything on icons size shape number of icons on screen I was just expecting a little bit more from a second generation launcher now for the audio the speakers on the phone 2 are pretty good now they definitely sound more tinny with less low ends than something like the 14 pro Max which weirdly makes the phone to sound like it's louder but when I put them next to a decibel meter it read the same volume so I think that's just like this placebo effect that's happening there but factoring in that this phone is 579 pounds here in the UK okay and you do have a very similar feel to an iPhone you know the overall design the large 14 pro Max screen good speakers a good battery life it does make for an overall good phone is it a flagship though I don't think it is but at half the price of an iPhone perhaps it's good value but then compared to other similarly priced Android phones like the pixel 7 or 7 Pro is just going to come down to personal preference the other question is is it Innovation beyond the glyph interface I'm not sure of that either now I think nothing's Innovation revolves far more around Carl and nothing's public interaction than in the product itself currently which is something that all brands could learn from but when asked about his thoughts on foldable phones half spoke as if it's something that nobody wants but honestly my experience of foldables like the pixel and Galaxy folds have totally changed my opinion on what a foldable phone can be capable of and can be innovating with and you can go and watch my review of both of those right here

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Length: 12min 2sec (722 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 28 2023