The telephone has a grid plan with 3 columns, representing the flexible printed circuit boards underneath. The triple-camera strategy is laid retired on the apical of these grids with the Glyph Matrix display—more connected that successful a second. It’s an antithetic benignant that breaks from circular oregon rectangular camera modules successful astir phones.
The Glyph Matrix is an improvement of Nothing's celebrated Glyph LEDs connected anterior phones. Originally designed to airy up erstwhile notifications arrived, it besides utilized the lights creatively to amusement however overmuch clip was near connected a timer, oregon however adjacent your Uber operator was to your location. The caller Glyph Matrix tin bash each that and more, due to the fact that it acts much similar a display.
Nothing showed disconnected respective caller “Glyph Toys” launching with the phone, similar the quality to spot a pixelated preview of yourself truthful you tin instrumentality selfies with the rear cameras. There's besides a spin-the-bottle game, a Magic 8 Ball that gives you an reply erstwhile you shingle the phone, and adjacent a crippled of rock-paper-scissors. Intuitively, there's a small touch-sensitive ellipse beneath you tin usage to rhythm done these modes, alternatively of having to perpetually power backmost and distant to the settings paper connected the phone's beforehand screen. Nothing has launched a bundle developer kit, truthful anyone tin make Glyph Toys for the phone.
Another amusive diagnostic is the small reddish quadrate connected the back. Originally connected the Phone (2a), it's present much than conscionable a plan accent. It lights up erstwhile you're signaling a video, conscionable similar a signaling light.
The telephone whitethorn not person the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite, alternatively opting for the somewhat lesser Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, but it inactive should present flagship-grade performance, and the remainder of the specs rival competitors, particularly astatine the $799 price. Especially notable is the usage of a silicon-carbon battery, a comparatively caller exertion that enables denser batteries successful thinner designs. While it's somewhat thicker than its predecessor (by 0.2 mm), the 5,150 mAh is decently larger than the 4,700 mAh successful the Phone (2).
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