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’ll be able to take selfies with the rear cameras. There’s additionally a spin-the-bottle sport, a Magic 8 Ball that offers you a solution whenever you shake the cellphone, and even a sport of rock-paper-scissors. Intuitively, there’s just a little touch-sensitive circle under you need to use to cycle by way of these modes, as a substitute of getting to always swap forwards and backwards to the settings menu on the cellphone’s entrance display screen. Nothing has launched a software program developer equipment, so anybody can create Glyph Toys for the cellphone.
One other enjoyable characteristic is the little crimson sq. on the again. Initially on the Phone (2a), it is now greater than only a design accent. It lights up whenever you’re recording a video, identical to a recording mild.
The cellphone might not have the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite, as a substitute 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 using a silicon-carbon battery, a comparatively new expertise that allows 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 Cellphone (2).
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