TL;DR
- There have been quite a few cases previously week through which we’ve seen the Nothing Cellphone 2 in full.
- Nevertheless, the corporate has not acknowledged it has been exhibiting the cellphone, so not many have observed.
- The Cellphone 2 will look rather a lot just like the Cellphone 1 however with just a few notable adjustments.
Nothing is well-known for shelling out info on its new merchandise slowly and methodically. One characteristic will drip out at the moment, after which a brand new, barely completely different characteristic will drip out tomorrow. Day by day there’s one thing new till we lastly get every little thing revealed on the launch date.
Nevertheless, that’s not the case this time round with the Nothing Cellphone 2. In truth, we’ve already seen the cellphone from each angle as shared by Nothing itself — it’s simply that Nothing hasn’t mentioned something about it. In different phrases, we don’t want leaks and CAD-based renders to see the Cellphone 2 as a result of Nothing has already proven it off casually!
Probably the most egregious instance of that is the video embedded within the video beneath. This was shared on Monday, June 26. In it, we see Swedish Home Mafia’s Glyph customizations. Naturally, we assumed this was the Nothing Cellphone 1 within the video as a result of why would it not be the unreleased Cellphone 2? However should you look intently, you understand that it positively is that this 12 months’s Nothing Cellphone.
First, the Glyph lights on the again of the cellphone are distinctly the brand new design. You possibly can see this most definitively when the lights across the digital camera module activate. The module gentle on the Cellphone 1 is one steady strip, however the Nothing Cellphone 2 has two strips.
Subsequent, in some photographs, you’ll be able to see that the selfie digital camera cutout is within the middle slightly than left-aligned as it’s on the Cellphone 1. Every thing else in regards to the Nothing Cellphone 2 seems to be the identical (or a minimum of related) to the Cellphone 1, which might be why most haven’t observed.
Notably, this formally shoots down the leaked renders of the Cellphone 2. These renders incorrectly confirmed a really completely different design, together with very curvy sides. In addition they confirmed a left-aligned selfie digital camera.
Different instances Nothing confirmed us the Cellphone 2
That Swedish Home Mafia video isn’t the one time Nothing has clearly proven us the Cellphone 2. In this tweet, you’ll be able to see a Forbes article on a cellphone. The cellphone exhibiting the article is sort of definitely the Cellphone 2. As soon as once more, be aware the flat sides, the nook curve, and the centered show cutout.
Though we beforehand lined it, we additionally noticed affirmation of the Cellphone 2’s selfie digital camera being moved to the middle by a tweet from Carl Pei. That tweet confirmed a screenshot of Pei’s dwelling display on the Nothing Cellphone 2, and the screenshot’s format confirmed there wasn’t a left-aligned selfie digital camera anymore.
Apparently, Nothing at the moment shared a tease of the corner of a Nothing Phone 2. Time will inform if the corporate will trouble to proceed issuing teases till the July 11 launch date now that we’ve seen the cellphone in full in an official capability.