One of my favorite things about using an excellent Android phone on the iPhone is that you can still get the roots of underdugs. Certainly, a Samsung or Pixel phone will always come with a better speaker, but with the less well -known brand you are more likely to have a unique feature that reminds you why you just didn’t give you and got one of the best iPhones like each.
After Google pulled out the alliance phones with more cooperation, Google, designed abroad, was left in the air for a while, like many other Android users, like many other Android users. I finally went to One Plus phones, which promises to reduce the flagship levels. Matters were there for a while .There was, even as the company connected Oppo’s colors with its oxygen, at this point it felt as if the magic had gone.
For me, for me, for me, for me, nothing (no pin intended) is the top in the stock Android. Then I came to a new startup set up by One Plus co -founder Carl PE. It seemed as if the nexus returns, but with a turn. Although the devices of anything do not feel like they are operating nearly stock Android, OS does not take things to a new level. It’s fast, responsible and well thought out, so I never felt the need to install a third party launcher.
I have no longer taken my phone 2 for almost two years, and when it has definitely served me well, I am eagerly waiting for what the company does. Well, this week, I found out that nothing was true of phone 3 rumors and leaked renders were real. Although I was not ready to hand over the latest tool to the latest tool, my hard -earned cash, a major mistake with its new design is surpassing me.
From galef lights to Gulf Matrix
The thing that did not immediately do anything actually and then the crowd, except the crowd, had a separate gap interface on the back. Along with the company’s trademark transparent designs, these LED light strips work as a permanent reminder that in the sea of ​​similar smartphones, nothing is really different.
As the company is manufactured, there is a gap interface in the back of its phones. Phone 1 launched a type of lights and phone 2 by adding more light zones and providing maximum control over them. Even when anything decided to court the budget phone market (2A) and then to court with the phone (3A) and the phone (3A) Pro, the glyph interface came for ride, even though in a small and easy way.
Although many people believed that the next logical move was to add RGB lighting to the Gulf interface, nothing clearly does not like expectations. I thought maybe we could see something else with the lighting zone, maximum customization options or phone 3. As soon as it turns out, I was fine. Not just what I expected.
Instead of improving the company’s now famous Gulf interface, it has decided to dig it with phone 3 completely. The only regular light that is left is actually a new: a small red square under the phone’s cameras that shows others that you are currently recording the video. Instead, the Gulf interface has been replaced with a new Gulf Matrix.
The light strips of phone 1 and Phone 2 were significantly highlighted in the back of each device, but the gulf matrix has been put in the right corner. This small dot matrix display has some tricks in its sleeve. It can show you the time, how much battery life you have left, and many other practical and entertaining widgets that are not calling anything.
I have to admit, at first, I thought the dot matrix style display in the back of my phone would be a great feature. It was until I knew that this new addition would mean that nothing has become the feature of Phone 2’s favorite hardware, which I use every day.
Spear but not so useful
I am sure that if you were publicly out and someone caught a glimpse of the phone 3’s golf matrix, they would have been interested. From acting as a selfie mirror to the flag of your notifications, there is already a lot that it can do. Likewise, you can play games with others or even with the phone yourself.
For example, the bottle is a gulf toy for spinning that fully offers broken glass capacity, as well as a magic 8 hair that can answer all your burning questions, despite being sharp, ambiguous. Then there is a rock paper scissors where you and the phone 3 go to the head in a zero game.
Although this is not all, because nothing has opened its new Gulf Matrix to developers so that they can make their customs gallows toys. Although the Gulf interface of the Phone 2 has a third -party support, it was only with the device’s Gulf Progress feature that used one of the light bars to tell you when your zumato was supplying your Uber or food.
I could easily see that the veterans and new developers in both of them make some cold galef toys under the line. However, with what is available now, the phone 3’s golf matrix feels more like a trick than a real alternative to the gulf interface.
When I decided to buy the phone 2, I thought his golf interface was also a trick. There is no party trick at all, such as activating the lights on the back of your phone or even getting compatible with the music you are playing using the music image feature. As I became familiar with my phone 2, its light strips exceeded a trick and turned into an essential feature that I rely on daily.
In addition to seeing the progress of your rider sharing or food supply, you can also use the phone 2 Gulf Progress feature with the Google Calendar, though this integration is just a few months after the phone release. Since someone who works from afar and is constantly jumping from a video call the next day, the light that gets short of approaching my next meeting has really worked. I still get regular notifications from Google 10 minutes before each of my meetings, but the light on the back of my phone is less painful to see slowly and it certainly has a little more fun.
Using your phone’s camera flash as a flashlight is something that we have all been accustomed to over the years, but through its gulf interface, nothing gives you the other way to light a dark room. You can still use the phone’s flash to illuminate your path, but you also have the option to use its gallows as a torch. And yes, I mean torch: nothing is based in the UK, so we have to use the right terms.
The thing I like about the Glaft torch is that it is a soft, low light light that I can quickly enable myself or others without blinding. Since I am a night of nature in nature, I often work myself late or do other things around my house after each sleeping. Even with the best smart lights installed all over my house, they can be turned off and interrupt at night. That is why I have become accustomed to using my phone 2’s Gulf torch to illuminate the kitchen or even the garage in the pinch.
Before there was a concert of music on the phone 2, there was a gulf composer. If you are like the type that still uses ringtones instead of leaving your phone on vibration, as I do, you can also light the phone 2’s gallop interface with your ringtone. There are pre -pre -set dynamic images of pre -installed ringtones, but with a gallflow composer, you can also customize yourself.
Although I personally don’t use Ringtones, I like the Gulf Composer. Not only is it a great way to kill time by using many different sound packs, but also the best way to engage a disturbing toddler as I have learned from experience. I usually don’t allow my son to use or play with my phone, but all the time, I either show him the lights on the back of my phone because I try my best to play some games near a song, or if he is really good, I let him go.
In fact, when Taiwan was waiting to buy SIM cards during his recent journey for 2025, I became incredibly bored in the line. Some people ahead of me was a little and when I saw him bullying, I pulled out the gulf composer and played a little. In a minute or more, she was laughing and soon I got up at the sales counter.
Nothing (for now)
Is the Polarizing Design of Phone 3 enough to give me anything completely? Not at all. However, my next phone upgrade is now in the air, much more than I thought it would be a few weeks ago.
I am Karl PE and nothing is trying to do anything new with phone 3, but I do not understand why he completely dropped the golf interface in favor of the new Gulf Matrix. The company’s cheap A-Series on the phones shows that you can still do a lot with just a few strips of light.
If you look at the back of the phone 3, there is still plenty of space where a small but as a gulf interface can fit well. In addition to the touch capacito buttons you use to control or exchange its gallopy toys on the right side of the center, the middle and the whole half of the phone’s waist is completely empty. I understand why the Gulf Matrix is ​​in the upper right corner for practical reasons, but in view of the non -traditional camera array of the device, I think matters could be moved around to include both the new dot matrix display and some familiar gulf lights.
In addition to the famous gulf interface lack of anything, there is another elephant in the room with phone 3: its price. I expected to spend more for a phone that is close to the flagship area, but like the Nintendo Switch 2, the price of the phone 3 is a bit much in my opinion. With an initial price of $ 799, you are at the Entry Level Flag Prices along with phones like the Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9. However, Snapdragon 8 S. General 4 Champset, which chooses nothing for the phone 3, is less capable of the top grade silicon used in these other phones.
The price of phone 3 will take some sting from the price of sales, but if I am paying a higher price than my phone 2, I should not change a very useful feature for anyone that has not yet seen any trick. Who knows, maybe we will see a phone 3 pro with the two worlds with a new gift matrix and there is nothing in the back interface. If not, I might be able to hold on to see what the company has for the phone 4A or maybe the phone 4A Pro.
I have not lost hope in anything yet, but except for the New Gulf Matrix, there is a decision that has not won me yet. Only time will tell, though and by then, I will proudly shake some of my phone 2 until its last Android update.