The CMF Watch Professional was a part of the primary batch of merchandise launched by Nothing’s finances sub-brand, now CMF is launching its first telephone and is pairing it with a brand new watch and new buds. When you look intently, you’ll discover that the CMF Watch Professional 2 is spherical moderately than rectangular like its predecessor. In a means, this makes it much less of a sequel and extra of a separate mannequin.
The overview unit we now have on the workplace has a darkish grey bezel and a blue leather-based strap. The bezel is raised and rounded, which affords some safety to the display screen in case you bang it on one thing.
Nonetheless, the Watch Professional 2 is a part of the model’s newfound ardour for modularity. The bezel is replaceable with two essential choices – rounded and flat – and a number of other coloration decisions. The watch physique beneath the bezel is made out of aluminum alloy. The wrist straps are customary 22mm form and could be changed too. CMF affords each leather-based and silicone straps.
The brand new mannequin comes with a number of upgrades. You will have already seen the crown – this may be rotated to navigate the UI, it’s not only a easy push button like on the unique watch.
And, after all, the display screen is spherical. It’s smaller than the oblong show of the Watch Professional (1.32” vs. 1.96”) and, as a result of its form, it suits much less content material. Nonetheless, it has extra pixels (466 x 466px) and is a bit sharper (353ppi) than that show. It’s marginally brighter too and it now options an auto-brightness mode. The CMF workforce has ready over 100 watch faces to additional customise the look of the watch and you may select which widgets needs to be seen on the house display screen.
Sadly, the battery contained in the CMF Watch Professional 2 is barely smaller too, it has 305mAh capability (vs. 340mAh), so Nothing advertises as much as 11 days of battery life (2 days lower than the Watch Professional).
There are a couple of additions to the watch’s abilities as a sports activities and well being monitoring gadget. There are the standard suspects: coronary heart price and SpO2 sensors, plus a built-in GPS for out of doors monitoring. The watch is rated IP68, so it’s protected towards rain however isn’t appropriate for swimming. Nothing did add a couple of extra sports activities modes, in addition to warm-up workouts and interval coaching. The watch additionally comes with an up to date sleep detection algorithm.
The Bluetooth connectivity permits you to take calls on the watch and now you may add as much as 30 contacts that may be dialed from the watch. You continue to have to be in Bluetooth vary of your telephone (there isn’t any GSM connectivity on the watch itself), however that’s nonetheless actually helpful.
The upgrades on the CMF Watch Professional 2 aren’t free, although it’s nonetheless removed from costly. The brand new mannequin prices $70/€70/£70/₹5,000, in comparison with $50/€50/£50/₹3,500 for the unique (which stays obtainable, after all). It’s time to strap this to our wrist and put it by way of its paces, anticipate an in depth overview quickly.