- Yeah.
I reviewed the Nothing Ear 1 last year,
and I totally insulated myself from seeing or knowing
anything about it or what it looked like.
And I did the same for this one, but this is different.
This is a cylinder, this is a stick.
The last one was a square, a cube.
This is unusual and it would catch my eye
if I saw it in the store.
Nice packaging.
Still has that kind of retro futuristic
kind of Terminator vibe to it.
Actually, I'm going to give it a Alien Covenant
that weird birthing scene
like a medical lab on a spaceship.
That happened to me with the last box too.
I tried to pull the tab and it just falls off.
Ah!
So similarly to the last one
it opens like a little Pez or cigarette box.
Okay.
It's a cylinder case this time.
I don't think that's going to feel great in my pocket
but this is definitely a cool experience.
Let's just set that aside.
What do I do with the rest of this?
- [David] Is there anything in there?
- Oh, you open the other side.
I feel like Darth Maul right now with this.
Ah!
If there's another pair of headphones in here,
can you imagine?
- [David] That would be sick.
- That happened last time too.
There's like always a satisfying pop
when you open their packaging.
So you get a little book.
This time it's on white paper.
Last time it was black which I thought was cooler.
Scan code to install the Nothing app.
There's a new app this time
and
a cable.
It's very small, short.
I think this is pretty much the same as last time.
It's a braided cable with a little sheath around it.
Does this just peel the whole thing.
Oh my god.
Okay, so they sit in here like that.
There's like a two level thing going on here.
This is textured.
You could probably hear this.
It's like knurled and it says NOTHING.
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Oh.
You're like, oh, oh it spins in there.
That's different.
Kind of-
Oh, you can do that with the side.
You don't have to put your finger in the middle like that.
And it spins both directions like just infinitely.
And it's ratcheted.
You can see it like snaps.
That is really cool.
Original industrial design.
It's so weird.
There's like so few companies that actually
thinking outside the box.
Like Apple is creative,
does a thing and then everyone else just does what they did.
It's like creative people actually work at Nothing as well.
It's like it's crazy.
I wonder if I can whip a path.
Bam, bam, bam.
You can't whip it beyond one snap.
That is pretty sweet.
Okay, and then here's the earbuds.
Getting them out though.
Like if I lift just straight up it works.
If you lift tilting this way at all
the stem gets kind of stuck in there.
So grab the opposite one.
Like that.
There's an LED in here that's going to
I guess maybe show battery level.
Is there a a button on here for pairing?
That is a button.
And there's also the USB-C port right there
and you can see the, that button.
It's columnar.
And on the back side it's just, that's just white.
This is a cool case.
I don't think it's going to feel great in my pocket.
I'll check that.
But yeah, you can see it's like it's just kind of tall.
Something flatter probably feels better in your pocket
but I don't know.
I don't think everybody carries their charging case
in their pocket.
Just because Linus puts it in the tiny pocket
of his mom jeans doesn't mean everyone else does.
I'd probably just throw this in a drawer
or in the bag most of the time.
Now let's look at the buds.
They look a little different.
The last ones had ear tips.
These don't, and they have like a glossy ceramic.
This is similar to that.
They look really beanular.
Like they're convex all the way around.
Like on every dimension.
They look cool.
Like last time, they have a red dot indicating right ear
and a white dot indicating left ear.
They say stick on the inside
and then they've got little grills
very fine perforated grills here.
A bit of a bend smile shape on it
and then a dot over there.
And then there's one on the outside.
So these are going to be microphones likely
for active noise canceling and for calls and stuff.
There's a bit of a highlight.
Again, I can't tell if there's like a white line
along that seam or if it's just the way
the light hits the plastic.
But you can see the seam.
It looks really cool.
They look really nice and premium.
They don't look cheap.
And how do they feel?
They feel...
They feel like deceptively loose.
Like at first I felt like oh those are going to fall out.
They're not in there
but they kind of just are in there.
It's crazy.
It's like someone grabbing you gently
and like Judo throwing you and you're like
how do they do that with just their fingertips?
Like the amounts of points of contact with my ear.
Very small but they feel pretty secure.
Cool.
They feel as isolating as earbuds that go right in.
And then when you pull them out,
I can hear like a little tick noise
like I guess that's the pause noise.
It's like tick.
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All right, here's the Nothing app.
It has...
I don't know, man.
It just says Nothing.
Can't even say the whole word.
Nothing X.
I guess they changed it up
because they have more than one product now.
Before, it used to actually say Ear 1 for the,
on the app's name, but they got more than the Ear 1's now
with the sticks.
Start.
Nice animation.
Just like last time it's a bit janky,
like this stuff is covering up some of the words.
So open the case leaving the earbuds in.
Oh god, yeah, that way.
How do they... this way.
It's blinking.
It's solid.
Select device that you want to set up.
Ear stick.
These app animations are nice.
A pinch for play and pause.
And to answer and pick up calls.
Interesting.
Maybe double pinch.
Does anyone remember that crab Honda commercial?
Maybe little pinch.
Double pinch for skip forward and decline an incoming call.
Triple pinch to go back.
It was all swipes last time.
So pinch and hold to volume up and volume down.
I want to I'm curious if it's a,
like a solid ramp on the volume
or if it's like do-do-do discreet steps like the AirPods.
I kind of prefer a ramp.
That's all.
And here's your battery meters.
I want to see if the equalizer...
whoa, this is way better.
Before, it's like they listened.
Before, the equalizer was just presets
like groovy, hip hop, classical,
and now they've given us this weird
three dimensional cloud.
How does this work?
Oh, custom.
I go into custom
and you can just move it like this.
So it still is only like if this was like a normal graph
it would just have three bars on it
for bass, mids, and treble.
But they made it look cool
and there's nice, happy feedback on the phone.
When you turn this stuff up and down it goes,
it vibrates a bit
and you can go from -6 to +6
on each of these three different dimensions.
It's still not as good as having more bands to tweak
than just like this giant mid, giant bass band,
but it's better than the last Ear.
They also have more bass, more treble.
I like the names for these.
Voice.
I guess that's your podcast mode.
I'm going to go to balanced
and how can I customize these controls?
You can change the double pinch
to be back, forward, or voice assistant.
Whoa, look at that.
You can do it all for left and right earbud.
That is a nice way to do that.
Right now it looks like it's all equal and symmetrical
except for volume.
I'm going to keep it the way it is for now,
but it looks like double pinch and triple pinch
give you the same options.
Sometimes they limit you and like this interaction
can only do this subset of things,
and this interaction can do a different subset of things.
And that is true here.
The pinch and hold can't be for play and pause
but this looks like
pretty robust.
I'm giving it like a B plus.
You can see they do have the low lag mode.
That's great for gaming.
You can turn off the in ear detection.
They have the Find My Buds thing again.
Oh, the sound is different though.
It just chirps now.
Do you hear that?
I'm skeptical.
I like that over the last one
because like if this is in the couch...
Hello?
It's way better when you're looking for something
for it to make a continuous noise
because then it's just...
This one it makes a sound every like two or three seconds.
I have to like wait, warmer, colder, wait.
I'd rather just get continuous feedback.
I got a new music app, guys.
Tidal subscription's over.
It's the era of Deezer now.
Trying it out.
They sound like reasonably,
like the resolution's like pretty reasonable.
There's this cool like go like
one per bar kind of big thud in this song
that sounds pretty good.
They go pretty loud.
Oh, that's loud.
- [David] I can hear it.
- Can you talk to me, David?
- [David] Considering we're in open space,
I'm going to keep speaking at this volume.
- Yeah, I definitely would want to pull these out.
I can't hear you.
Let's try the squeeze.
There is a cool little tick-tock sound when you squeeze it.
Let's do a double tick tick.
I'm going to try this volume ramping thing.
Yeah, so when you hold it, they kind of,
you hear a little feedback sound that goes
and you can see it going up in discrete steps
which is safer I guess.
Like making it just linearly ramp would be trickier
but it just kind of takes a little longer.
What if I, oh I can't just tap.
I was like, what if I just squeeze like
but that's just going to play and pause it a bunch.
That would be cool if they recognize
that that's what you're doing,
and it was a whole different interaction.
But I guess if you need to turn down quickly
you just pull them out.
Wow, that takes a long time to pause.
So here's how long it takes.
Oh god, it's still playing.
There it goes.
And no music, no music, no music.
Music.
Battery life has improved on these from the Ear 1's.
It's 7 hours now.
5.7 hours on the other ones.
29 total hours of battery from the case.
It'll give you 2 hours of playback from a 10 minute charge.
And they're IP54 rated a,
the four is the waterproof.
That's splashes.
That's really typical for basically any earbud you get.
But usually IPX4 is what you get on other earbuds.
And X means they didn't get a rating
for particles, dust, and debris.
Here, they got a five, six is the highest.
So that's cool
that they actually got a certification for that.
All right, so that's the earbuds.
I just had to do some Googling and I found out
that these indeed do not have active noise canceling
or transparency or anything related to that.
These are not a successor to the Ear 1's
like I thought they were.
I guess that's why they're not called the Ear 2's.
These are a hundred bucks and they removed A and C
and the Ear 1's are still on sale
but they got a price hike to 150 bucks.
Inflation is real then.
(laughing)
Okay.
No.
And so that kind of changes the whole value proposition
because the Ear 1's at $99 with A and C
were like a no-brainer.
These at $99, no A and C,
these are still, they're still a good choice.
I still think they're definitely worth it.
They're not, they're just not like a crazy...
Man, these are slipping.
They're just not like a like a crazy no-brainer.
But for the build quality, decent sound quality
if you like the kind of,
I guess these are analogous to the AirPods now.
Like it's the no A and C,
no like inner ear thing
and then Nothing 1 is more like the AirPods Pro.
I'm still giving them a recommend.
They're pretty cool.
I really like the industrial design.
You can like show these off.
People are going to be interested in what these are.
And when you tell them that they're only 99 bucks
they're going to be like, how?
Apple's gouging me.
Don't get them if you want to put them in your front pocket.
But these are definitely a really cool earbud.
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