One of the biggest questions everyone needs to answer when buying a new phone is which color to pick. I know I spend a lot of time debating on which one I’d choose, but when I do make a decision, I realize I’ve wasted time trying to convince myself of going naked because I always end up getting a wallet case. With the CMF Phone 1 by Nothing, it puts phone designs back into the conversation because of how it features one that lets you change its back cover.
But it doesn’t end at just choosing a color for the phone since there are more add-on accessories to personalize the Android phone. Everything about it reminds me of the Moto X , which gave people an unprecedented level of customizing the design — down to the color of the casing and its accents. But that implementation still forced users to stick with one color, whereas Nothing gives you more control of it with the CMF Phone 1.
And best of all, it costs less than $250 and is a strong contender in our best cheap phones guide. We really need more phones like it. Settling is not an option anymore Whenever I come across phones under the $500 threshold, they’re rarely offered in multiple color options — and color variety is rarely a luxury for some of the best phones under $300.
Typically I expect two color options, black and white, but what’s special about the CMF Phone 1 by Nothing is that you don’t have to settle on just one. When I first took it out of the box, the first thing I realized was how it kept to a .