Looking for a new bargain Android phone? The CMF Phone 1 is what you want. Best of all, it's so much more than just another cheap phone.
You’ve got to stick with me for a bit here, as there’s quite a lot of background to go through before we get to the meat of what makes this new Android phone such a bargain. The phone is the CMF Phone 1, and while you may never have heard of CMF, you will have heard of Nothing — the company co-founded by Carl Pei of OnePlus fame. CMF’s full name is CMF by Nothing, and it’s Nothing’s sub-brand responsible for very reasonably priced but little-known mobile products.
The processor is a MediaTek Dimensity 7300, which means it’s built using a 4nm process, has eight cores, and has 5G connectivity. There’s a choice of 6GB or 8GB of RAM, plus 128GB or 256GB of storage space, and you can put a microSD card in with the SIM. A 50-megapixel camera with electronic image stabilization lives on the back of the phone, along with a portrait sensor and a 16MP selfie camera.
Wonderful customization options If CMF left the CMF Phone 1 alone with that spec and that price, it would still be a pretty good deal, but it hasn’t at all. The design and the level of customization are far beyond anything you’d expect from a phone at this price. The rear of the phone is a single piece of plastic, and it looks very cool with its exposed screw heads and that unusual circular knob in the bottom corner. The fun begins when you notice all these design aspects are functional.
But is it a good phone? I’ve been casually using the CMF Phone 1 as my primary phone for the last week, coming from the Motorola Edge 50 Pro, and haven’t really noticed many appreciable differences. Sure, the camera doesn’t take optical zoom shots or wide-angle photos, but the main camera takes perfectly acceptable photos.
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