The cellphone 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 model 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 mild up when notifications arrived, it additionally used the lights creatively to indicate 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 cellphone, like the flexibility to see a pixelated preview of your self so you may take selfies with the rear cameras. There’s additionally a spin-the-bottle sport, a Magic 8 Ball that offers you a solution while you shake the cellphone, and even a sport of rock-paper-scissors. Intuitively, there’s a bit touch-sensitive circle beneath you should use to cycle by these modes, as an alternative of getting to consistently change forwards and backwards to the settings menu on the cellphone’s entrance display screen. Nothing has launched a software program developer package, so anybody can create Glyph Toys for the cellphone.
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 while you’re recording a video, identical to a recording mild.
The cellphone might not have the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite, as an alternative choosing the marginally lesser Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, however it nonetheless ought to ship flagship-grade efficiency, and the remainder of the specs rival opponents, particularly on the $799 worth. Particularly notable is the usage of a silicon-carbon battery, a comparatively new expertise that permits 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).
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