Cmf Phone 2 Pro Review: Slimmer, Sharper, Smarter For ₹18,999

When nan CMF Phone 1 came retired past year, it was praised instantly for its unsocial design, awesome capacity and unthinkable worth for money. However, location were definite caveats pinch nan phone, astir notably nan camera performance, and nan deficiency of a powerfulness adapter successful nan box. This year, pinch nan CMF Phone 2 Pro, Nothing has aimed to tackle each of that, and more. Here’s my reappraisal of nan CMF Phone 2 Pro.

CMF Phone 2 Pro Box Contents

I don’t usually talk astir nan container contents successful a review, but this one’s important because nan Phone 1 was criticised for not shipping pinch nan charger successful nan box, truthful Nothing has fixed that this year. There is simply a 33W adapter successful nan box, arsenic good arsenic a transparent lawsuit - a communal show astatine this value point, but a first for Nothing. 

CMF Phone 2 Pro Design

The backmost of nan telephone continues to beryllium a headturner, akin to its predecessor. The CMF Phone 2 Pro comes successful flashy colours, White, Black, Orange and Light Green. I sewage nan Light Green portion for review, and I was instantly amazed by nan looks. The telephone retains nan screws connected nan back, which tin beryllium taken out, and nan backmost sheet tin beryllium replaced pinch a cosmopolitan screen accessory, giving users nan expertise to adhd different Nothing accessories to nan backmost of their phones, and customise their devices.

I really liked that Nothing made nan telephone moreover slimmer this year, coming successful astatine conscionable 7.8mm successful thickness. It besides sits comfortably successful nan hand, pinch a weight of 185g. It’s nan slimmest Nothing smartphone truthful far, and it decidedly feels that way. 

CMF Phone 2 Pro Display

The telephone comes pinch a 6.77-inch elastic AMOLED show pinch a 1080 x 2392 solution and 120Hz refresh rate. Last year, nan CMF Phone 1 could only move betwixt 60Hz and 120Hz, truthful this time, it comes pinch a 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate. It besides has a higher highest brightness of 3000 nits, making it visible outdoors successful this Delhi summertime pinch ease.

Colour reproduction is good, it’s a 10-bit show truthful it tin show complete 1 cardinal colours. I enjoyed watching IPL games, and immoderate movies connected nan phone’s display. 

CMF Phone 2 Pro Performance 

Nothing has put successful a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro chipset wrong nan phone. It’s not a awesome upgrade from past year’s Dimensity 7300 wrong nan CMF Phone 1, but it still does nan occupation pinch ease. The CMF Phone 2 Pro features 8GB of on-device RAM, pinch nan added action of an further 8GB virtual RAM. 

In time to time usage, nan telephone kept up pinch nan strength of each tasks, beryllium it video consumption, web browsing aliases hardcore gaming pinch COD Mobile aliases Pokemon Unite. In fact, I moreover tried to stump nan phone, playing Pokemon Unite connected highest graphics pinch nan artillery being nether 10%, but didn’t announcement immoderate lags aliases jitters successful nan frames. 

Throughout my usage, I besides didn’t consciousness that nan telephone was unnecessarily heating up, indicating that nan thermal guidance is good. There is besides an in-display fingerprint scanner, which is accelerated and reliable.

Nothing is besides giving users nan expertise to adhd expandable retention up to 2TB, which is simply a bully summation for people. 

CMF Phone 2 Pro Camera

Camera was a awesome attraction area for nan Nothing squad this year. One of nan main points that was raised past twelvemonth was nan deficiency of an ultra-wide aliases a telephoto sensor connected nan CMF Phone 1. So connected nan Phone 2 Pro, Nothing gave some of those cameras, providing a triple rear camera setup. 

CMF Phone 2 Pro features a 50MP main camera, a 50MP 2x telephoto camera, and an 8MP ultra-wide lens. The camera capacity is decent for its price, but I didn’t for illustration nan over-softening of shots, particularly nan selfies. I tried taking immoderate portraits arsenic well, and nan colour reproduction was good, but I was hoping for much from Nothing. In debased light, nan telephone disappointed maine a little, nan images look washed retired and deficiency colour. 

Fortunately, location is simply a metallic lining. Nothing is known to amended camera capacity of its smartphones by pushing regular package updates to its users. However, retired of nan box, nan capacity isn’t satisfactory for me. 

You tin cheque retired each nan camera samples here.

CMF Phone 2 Pro Battery

It ships pinch a 5000mAh battery, and arsenic mentioned earlier, a 33W accelerated charger comes successful nan box, particularly for Indian users. It easy lasts a afloat day’s usage, and dissimilar past year, you wouldn’t person to walk other to bargain nan champion powerfulness adapter for your phone, which is ever a bully thing. 

CMF Phone 2 Pro Software and UI

The telephone comes pinch Nothing OS 3.2 based connected Android 15. This year, there’s an action for a “Private Space”, an further abstraction for users to beryllium capable to hide their apps, files aliases photos. And nan champion portion is moreover if personification knows your lockscreen password, they won’t beryllium capable to get into nan Private Space, arsenic it asks you to create a caller password, which tin beryllium your fingerprint, aliases a different pattern. 

There’s of people Essential Space, introduced connected nan Nothing Phone 3a series. It useful conscionable arsenic well, and is simply a awesome “second brain”, particularly for personification for illustration maine who’s very forgetful. 

In position of updates, Nothing has promised 3 years of Android updates and 6 years of information updates. I would’ve liked to spot a longer support rhythm for OS updates, but 6 years of information updates does compensate for that. 

CMF Phone 2 Pro Price and Verdict

The CMF Phone 2 Pro comes successful 2 retention variants: 8+128GB exemplary which starts astatine ₹18,999, and nan 8+256GB exemplary which is priced astatine ₹20,999. It’s a very fierce value by Nothing, and there’s besides an connection that slashes this value by an further ₹1,000 connected motorboat day, making this telephone moreover amended worth for money. 

Besides nan lacklustre camera performance, there’s not overmuch to kick astir pinch nan CMF Phone 2 Pro. And looking astatine Nothing’s way grounds pinch package optimisation, that problem is expected to beryllium solved successful nan future.