Nothing Phone (2a) Review | The Almost Practical Smartphone

[Music] hi guys this is ranit and in this video we'll be doing the full review for this nothing phone 2A and I've been actually testing this Smartphone for the last 12 or days and in this video I'll give you my complete overview what do I feel about it I made a lot of notes so we'll go all over it before everything I just wanted to give you my quick summary uh what do I feel about this Smartphone then we'll dwell into all the details and before I tell you my quick summary um regarding the pricing uh I also do not know all the details I'm shooting this video uh just a couple of hours before the launch I'll also know all the details later on but what I know is that this Smartphone will start at about 24,000 rupees I don't know if this is inclusive of of all the offers or not but yeah this is going to be starting at 24,000 rupees and based on that my uh all the thoughts and opinions are based on that sort of pricing the starting price is about 24,000 this nothing phone 2A is is for the price and excellent smartphone it offers a clean UI experience similar to the pixel UI and is fast and fluid and has that 120 HZ uh what you say uh motion which is very very fluid and it comes with the amulet screen uh this comes as a breath of fresh air in this segment for users looking for a phone with the essential features and clean user experience with great battery life and a very good camera which has become a rarity in this segment so that was my quick uh uh summary guys and before I jump into this here are all the specs of this device and I'll also have all the specs over here so that you have a better idea this is the Box itself and inside this box you will also get this one this is actually the box where the phone will be there so nothing much I would say fun intended nothing much phone was here and apart from that you get this fancy Sim injector tool which is sort of transparent and also this USB type-c cable there is no charger bundled in the box and I feel this is a missed opportunity because at this price fund this segment most of the other vendors are including a charger so you don't get any charger nor uh what do you say case or anything in the box so this is the device itself and it looks I would say very similar to other nothing phones this is also a relatively big size phone at 6.7 in screen and I would say uh the back this is interesting again this also has that transparent kind of a back if you want more of the transparent thing I would suggest that you go with the black uh sorry white color variant because that one has a lot more clear and the thing to not is that this back is actually not glass now this is a polycarbonate plastic kind of a thing uh so again it attracts fingerprints like crazy uh I would say but yeah this is what it is and the good thing was that I was very very skeptical about this back uh what do you say because it's that polycarbonate kind of a thing and I thought it'll have too many scratches but I used this phone as I've told you for about 12 days and in my pocket with my keychain and all those things and then also I did not get a lot of scratches but if you notice closely there is one Nick over here the phone actually fell on the ground and yes it did get a Nick so it resist the scratches quite a bit but again if I were you I would go with some sort of a case or a transparent sheet or something because this is sort of a fingerprint magnet and in the long runs you can definitely get the next but definitely a lot better in terms of scratch production compared to many other smartphones that come with that completely black plastic back so that's what it is also this has that glyph lighting so if you flip and all those things you get those glyph lighting I'm not a big fan of that I'll talk about thater but yeah that is there so this is the phone itself and another thing to note is that the this one the outer chases is also actually made of polycarbonate that is plastic this is not metallic but the internal frame uh is actually aluminium the good thing is that the network reception is actually very good on this uh smartphone and in terms of physical aspects we do have a noise cancellation microphone over here you also have one more over here at the back U here is the power onof button bottom we have the speaker again this also has stereo speakers in fact the speakers were actually pretty good uh you have a micro uh what you say Nano but no what do you say M SD card or anything it comes in two variants guys 8 GB of RAM with 128 GB of storage and 256 and the 12 GB Ram variant which I have the review in it is that 12 GB that will have 256 GB of storage but sadly this is not the ufs 3.1 storage uh it's okay didn't uh affect me or whatever it's the phone is actually pretty fluid that is something that I liked uh they made the phone actually pretty fluid in operation so that is a good thing but one thing I did not like is that and I don't know if it's just my review unit or whatever because I don't have multiple units to test it out I noticed that the volume button has slight wobble towards it's a very slight wobble that I'm having so this is something that I noticed immediately on this one um you got to check it with other reviewers or if this is a common thing but yeah at least on my unit this is slightly having that wobble okay another thing is that again good thing is that this is having an AMOLED screen uh it's a 6.7 in screen and again in terms of color accuracy all those things uh the screen is very good um that way I liked it even for watching videos and stuff it's a good experience so it's not over saturated or dull or something they have got it right but again as the costing of this phone this is sort of that mid-range thing I would say indoors the screen is actually adequately bright as you can see no issues but outdoors in direct sun I feel that even at maximum brightness it's not that bright don't get me wrong it's not a total deal breaker but something you have to little bit squint uh they say the peak brightness is about 1,300 these are just numbers uh sustained is about 700 nits so that's what it is in terms of uh what do you say inhand field I like the phone and two reasons is that though this is a relatively big phone that 6.7 in screen but again it does not feel that much heavy and the reason for that is simple because the back is not glass glass is a lot more heavier and also that chases is not metallic that's why in terms of that inhand feel uh it's a good experience that you're getting with this phone it's not that heavy I would say it weighs just 190 G that way I would say the weight balance of the phone has been done well so even for long calls and stuff like that I did not have a problem moving to the next thing that I really liked on this one is the ear piece on this one is actually very very good the and the cellular reception and in fact still my primary some that is AEL is on this one uh is actually really good the network reception was good the call Clarity was excellent on this one so the gear piece very good no issues of pro X imity sensor or anything on them in fact it feels like uh the call Quality that you get with premium smartphone so that way I would say they have done a good job um next thing is again regarding the processor I won't talk too much this is having a mid-range processor that's the mediatic diamond City 7200 they call it the pro uh so it's very similar to the regular Diamond City 7200 but slightly overclocked I would say and I would say in terms of the UI it handles the UI very well I have forced it to actually Herz and I did all my testing on 120 HZ not the regular 60 HZ and in fact if you notice in the uh UI and the fluidity it is actually very good in fact I like the fact that the UI resembles very very close to a pixel smartphone there are some additions I would say but those are actually meaningful additions done on this Smartphone for example if you notice they have added quite a few widgets these are some widgets that nothing has added this shows the screen on time and stuff like this is the weather widget and all so they have added actually some new uh actually nice widgets and again no notice the fluidity uh it actually handles it very well it's very very fluid in the UI so that way I have I think they have done the optimizations very very well rarely rarely I have noticed that lagginess or anything on this uh smartphone unless some background activity was going on something I did not notice any lag so that way I would say the phone uh is also very very smooth in the UI very fluid gives you that pixel Vibes again and again again if you notice the color theme is actually very very different on this one again you can choose it while setting it up I use this black and white what nothing theme and they try to make all the icons dark color but again this indirectly fails as you can see uh it does not do it for every app only some of the popular apps it makes it like this so this is what it looks with some of the other apps as you can see so again just resort to the default regular regular Android theme this in a way it's a good thing but again as you can see many of the third party apps it simply can't do that grayscale icon so that's what it is moving to one thing that I really liked it yes this does have a stereo speakers in fact the stereo speakers quality was much better than I expected let me quickly just fire up YouTube as you can see we are at about 75% volume level and in fact the sterio separation is good and even the volume level is good generally what I've noticed with many of these mid-range smartphones is that 80% of the volume will come from here only a little bit of you here it's actually very well balanced let me increase the volume to max this is the maximum volume actually you get that stereo effect so that way I would say in terms of speakers the stereo speakers they actually performed much better than what I expected as I've told you the stereo balance and you get that really effect stereo effect on this one also as I've told you the UI is good RAM management also I did not have any issues U this is the 12 GB Ram variant of this Smartphone and again if you look at it even internal the UI feels very close to stock Android experience I would say so that way it's actually really really nice I also like the fact that uh this Smartphone comes out of the box with Android 14 so you're getting the latest version of Android which is based on the they call this nothing UI 2.5 uh so and and they're promising next 3 years of Android upgrades and four years of security upgrade so considering the price point and the clean experience it's very good again big thing for me is that this device did not come with the actually bloatware yes there was one of the nothing apps for example this nothing app uh nothing X app was pre-installed and some extra widgets but apart from that I would say this is one of the cleanest Android experience that you can get at this price point yes even more Molla started adding some extra apps but here nothing has kept it clean and that costs guys so that way I would say very very clean Android experience that you are getting on this one very close to uh what do you say U uh pixel in fact I would say uh I would call this the mini pixel uh that's the feeling that the device gave apart from the hearttech feedback heart pick feedback is okay but HCK feedback is very very average I would say that way pixels most of the pixels excellent htech feedback another thing that I noticed is that the Wi-Fi reception was also very very good uh on the smartphone there is one area in this uh what do you say place where the vicei reception is pretty average but this phone was getting good reception even in that area so that way I would say very good again I did not have any issues with Bluetooth headsets and stuff like that uh the camera on this one if you look at it from the back again as I don't like that becomes a fingerprint magnet man as I've told you this you have to constantly wipe it maybe on the white color it's not not visible a lot but yeah at least on this black one okay moving to the camera um we just have this two cameras on the back and I like that they're not doing the gimmick of three or four cameras and both the cameras are very very functional the main camera is a 50 megap uh with ois f aperture is 1.88 and the second one is actually Ultra wide and here are some of the camera samples that I've taken with this Smartphone in fact I would say before I show you the samples in fact the processing I think so they're doing something like pixel for example if I'll just show you I'll just let's just take a snapshot of this one if I take it and if you press the preview as you can see it takes a little bit of time and does the processing just like the pixel smartphones and the pictures that I got from this Smartphone actually surprise me and here are the samples first some outdoor shots and as you can see in outdoor conditions it does a good job this is the regular shot and actually the macros come out good and as you can see the outdoor shots are very very natural this is again a regular shot as you can see and this was the ultra wide one more example this was the regular shot and this was the ultra wide as you can see in outdoor conditions the pictures actually come out very good these picks were shot in artificial lighting conditions and again as you can see even in artificial lighting conditions It produced some very good results these switches were taken when I just went to a mall and here also as you can see the pictures come out very good natural background blur is very easy and these were taken in the portrait bouquet mode now moving to low light conditions here also it actually did very well as you can see in fact this was taken at 9:30 at night and it made the picture look a lot brighter than it what it was these are the Selfies taken with the 32 megapix camera this was in the portrait mode and I feel selfies can be improved a little bit the skin tones with further tuning in my Frank Opinion recording this video with the nothing phone 2A and and this is with the front facing camera and the maximum video recording with the front facing camera is sadly restricted only 1080p again I think so that's not a problem and this is around the evening time frame about uh yeah it's almost 6:00 so Sun is going to set so that Twilight thing is there uh and this is the audio so what do you guys uh feel about the front-facing video recording with the nothing phone 2A coming to the glyph interface yes this does have that glyph interface and if you just I'm just using this flip to it goes to do not disturb these light up and stuff like that even in ringtones you can do that but again I don't think so still this glyph interface or whatever is a killer feature in my Frank Opinion now coming to some of the things that I did not like on this Smartphone uh as I've told you it should have come with a what do you say charger in the Box uh because the the charging is technically fast on this one this does support that uh what do you say that 45 W charging in fact the battery life this has that 5,000 mAh battery the battery life is actually very very good on this Smartphone let me actually show you I've taken some screenshots and if I go to screenshots let me just show you yeah if you notice the other day uh this was again mostly with Wi-Fi and again guys all the stats that I'm showing you are with the single Sim usage uh it was at 11% and I got a screen on time of 9 hours 15 1 minutes this was another a few days ago here again as you can see uh this I think so this was like again I got a s so of about 10 hours uh this is mostly with Wi-Fi but even when I was mostly on mobile data I was easily getting a screen on time of about 7 and 1/2 hours and the standby always about 1 and 1/ half to about 2 days between charges so that way I would say in terms of what do you say battery life also the battery life has is actually very very good on this smartphone now coming to the charging speed as I've told you the charging speeds are fast if you have a PD charger that supports 45 wats of charging it charges fairly quickly at 50% in just about 23 minutes or something like that so that way it's good but again they should have bundled that charger in the box which they do not do uh one small con that I have and this is very very surprising to me is that as I've told you the speakers are actually very very good on this one in fact you saw how loud they can go but for some reason when you're taking calls on the speaker phone even when I was keeping the volume level at Max it was not going at a very high volume it was like it was just at 50% I don't know if this is a software bug or something but as of now uh the calls that you take by a speaker phone are not that loud because I know the speakers are very loud I don't know why it's not going that loud I hope it's a bug and they fix it let me actually read the uh actual summary I have written it down this is the uh full conclusion that I had written down uh let's go about it uh nothing phone 2 for the price is an excellent smartphone it offers a clean UI similar to the pixel UI and is fast INF fluid with 120 HZ refresher rate the phone performed well and the battery life was also good the surprise for me was the camera performance which was much better than I expected this should have come with a charger bundle and a case the glyph lighting is still not a big selling point personally for me uh for users looking for a clean Android experience with decent performance the nothing phone to we is an easy recommendation from me as it gets the core functionality that you want in a smartphone right just use a case for the back cover so guys this was my review of this nothing phone 2A what do you guys uh think about that do let 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Length: 18min 13sec (1093 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 05 2024