Nothing CMF Phone 2 Pro review
Display
The CMF Phone 2 Pro has a large 6.77-inch AMOLED display. It comes with 10-bit colors, HDR10+ support and 120Hz refresh rate. The manufacturer advertises some pretty solid brightness figures for the panel: 800 nits of typical brightness, 1300 nits of full display peak, and a 3000-nit spot peak.
We did our usual testing and can confirm it's an excellently bright panel, especially considering the phone's price bracket. We measured 702 nits by maxing out the manual slider and 1,255 nits of peak brightness in auto mode. While not winning any awards, the display is certainly bright enough to be comfortable outdoors.
Max display brightness test
White test pattern, 75% fill (nits)
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The CMF Phone 2 Pro display offers 10-bit color support, an upgrade over the CMF Phone 1. There are two color modes to choose from in settings - alive and standard. The former targets the DCI-P3 color space, while the latter goes for sRGB.
Another thing the CMF Phone 2 Pro brings to the table is official HDR10+ support. It is backed up by HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG decoder support. Just no Dolby Vision. The phone also supports the highest possible Widevine L1 DRM protection.
The CMF Phone 2 Pro has 120Hz maximum refresh rate. The phone toggles between 30Hz, 60Hz, 90Hz and 120Hz and unlike the CMF Phone 1, which has two refresh rate modes in settings, the CMF Phone 2 Pro has three.
One just locks the display to 60Hz, while the other two offer automatic refresh rate switching and are practically identical in behavior. The adaptive mode seems to opt for 90Hz operation a little more often than the High mode. We never actually saw the phone drop down to 30Hz. The lowest it seems to want to go is 60Hz, either when you are not interacting with it and nothing is happening on screen, or during video playback. It is not the most sophisticated system, but it works okay.
We tried some high refresh rate gaming, but with little success. Most titles we ran refused to go over 60Hz mode, regardless of the display settings we used.
Battery life
The CMF Phone 2 Pro has a 5,000 mAh battery on board. Its Active Use Score is very solid at over 14 hours. The call endurance and video streaming endurance are particularly impressive.
In terms of battery care features, the CMF Phone 2 Pro offers a Battery Saver feature that can limit charging to 90% or charge on a schedule. There is also something called Sleep Standby Optimization, which limits network connectivity and applies other battery-saving features while you are sleeping.
Our new Active Use Score is an estimate of how long the battery will last if you use the device with a mix of all four test activities. You can adjust the calculation based on your usage pattern using the sliders below. You can read about our current battery life testing procedure here. For a comprehensive list of all tested devices so far, head this way.
Charging speed
The CMF Phone 2 Pro supports 33W "Fast Charging" (wireless charging is not supported). As with all Nothing phones, no charger is included in the box.
Nothing doesn't offer any particular description of exactly what protocol it uses for fast charging. However, we can gather some clues. Like the fact that Nothing sells a 45W official charger that works over Power Delivery. It is meant to saturate the 45W of charging supported by the Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing Phone (2a). Presumably, it will also be the best match for the CMF Phone 2 Pro.
We didn't have the Nothing charger at hand, so we tested with a high-quality 65W PD/QC universal charger. We measured a peak charging wattage of around 26W, and the CMF Phone 2 Pro charged at around 20W for most of the charging cycle.
Overall, the CMF Phone 2 Pro is not particularly fast to charge. Fifteen minutes on the charger got us from dead to 24%, thirty minutes resulted in a 46% charge, and a full top-off took an hour and twenty-five minutes. You can definitely get faster-charging phone even in this price range nowadays.
Charging speed
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Speakers - loudness and quality
The CFM Phone 2 Pro only has a single bottom-firing speaker at its disposal. There is no hybrid stereo system or anything of the sort. The speaker isn't particularly impressive, either. It only managed a GOOD loudness rating in our standardized testing. On the upside it did a bit better than the CMF Phone 1.
Quality-wise, it offers pretty clear mids, so voices come out sounding quite well. Highs are also decent, even at high volumes, without screeching or distortion. Bass is practically non-existent, though even more so than on the CMF Phone 1.
Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0db" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.
Connectivity
The CMF Phone 2 Pro is a dual-SIM device that simultaneously can take two Nano-SIM cards. It also supports simultaneous SA/NSA Sub-6 5G connectivity. The second slot is hybrid, and you must choose between a second SIM or a microSD memory card. Unfortunately, there is no eSIM support.
The phone supports GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS, BDS and QZSS for positioning. Local connectivity is covered by dual-band Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 with LE support. Depending on your market, there is NFC on board as well. No 3.5mm jack and no FM receiver, though.
The Type-C port is backed up by a simple USB 2.0 connection with a theoretical max transfer rate of 480 Mbps. There is OTG/Host support, but nothing fancier like video output.
The CMF Phone 2 Pro has a pretty full set of sensors on board. There is an InvenSense icm4n607 accelerometer and gyroscope combo, an osc och1918 magnetometer and compass combo, and a tyhx hx32062 light and hardware proximity sensor combo. There is no barometer.
Reader comments
- atichko
- 8 hours ago
- M{V
I've bought this phone a good week ago now and I can easily say that I'm very, very satisfied with it till now. It's fast and smooth enough, it's very well made with no hollowness, no creaks what so ever, it's much smoother t...
- Anonymous
- 18 May 2025
- 0p}
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- Anonymous
- 16 May 2025
- CbG
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