Marques

I actually remember having really high hopes for that.

What did they call it?

It was like post-processing in Google Photos.

You could shoot a certain mode, and your photos or videos, I think mostly videos, would get this massive quality boost.

Number one, the quality boost turned out to not be that big for most of the stuff that I tested.

And number two...

is that even a phone feature like you it's uploading it photos feature post-processing it's technically pixel only but like yeah that would that was tough it's good in low light because it gets it gets rid of a lot of the like low light artifacting and noise yeah but it takes like 20 hours yeah so it's not it's tough it is tough I like the I like the idea of like offloading super high processing stuff to cloud that's not a new concept but that just wasn't it that just wasn't it wasn't it yeah yeah

all right next up best value this is one that gets a lot of chatter every year because this is there's a thousand definitions of best value most phone for the least money best phone under x dollars however you want to phrase it uh i went with the cmf phone 2 pro it's under 300 it's the best phone under 300 but it's also the i feel like it was really close to flagship feeling it's like a big smooth screen the software is super smooth it's got great battery life and all these things it's got multiple useful cameras

And it was just like a very good usable phone in the price range.

And I thought that deserved.

It also had like the fun orange color and the modular accessories and all that.

So that was a nice cherry on top.

But I did give a runner up or a mention to the Moto G Play, the Pixel 9a and the base iPhone 17.

All good values in very different price categories.

I'll throw something out there to just another reason why I think this CMF Phone 2 Pro, the Nothing Phone 3A Lite is the exact same phone and it's $10 more and one less camera.

And has ads on it.

And has ads on it.

I forgot about that.

Which makes this phone look awesome.

Yeah.