# @tech.lekh on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUN7ydukzrJ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63444385-techlekh-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-01T13:55:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** TechLekh (@tech.lekh) — https://gondola.cc/tech.lekh

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🏆 The TechLekh Awards 2025 for Best Overall Value Phone of the Year goes to the 🥇 CMF Phone 2 Pro! Congratulations, np.nothing! 🥳

If you are a regular in the smartphone world, then you already saw it coming. MKBHD and Mrwhosetheboss, two of the largest tech reviewers in the world, awarded this phone a similar award.

Can you even blame them? CMF Phone 2 Pro is THAT good. You get a display with symmetrical bezels this year, the MediaTek Dimensity 7300, which is probably the most capable chipset in the midrange space, a solid battery, and a good charging speed.

Which are all great, but this phone drives the point home with its software and cameras. The recent update of NothingOS may have paved the way for the company to push ads and install bloatware on its phones, but it is minimal, and we don’t find it be intrusive (yet).

But you get good software on similarly priced Samsung phones, too. What you don’t get is a proper triple camera setup that the CMF Phone 2 Pro offers. It is the only phone to offer a telephoto camera in its price point, making it the most affordable phone to do so.

There is pretty much nothing (no pun intended) on this phone for us to complain about. If we had to, it would be about the price going up recently and unavailabilty of the official accessories like the mounting plate, the wallet stand, and the interchangeable lenses.

But that’s an importer-related issue, and not phone-related. And we must say, the CMF Phone 2 Pro, despite the price going up recently, still does not feel overpriced.

As an honourable mention, we have the Nothing Phone (3a), which is essentially everything the CMF Phone 2 Pro is — just turned up a notch. That said, the Phone 2 Pro delivers about 85–90% of the Phone (3a)’s experience at roughly 75% of the price.

The Phone (3a) also faces tough competition from the likes of the Infinix GT 30 Pro and the OnePlus Nord CE5, whereas the Phone 2 Pro remains a no-brainer pick, even after its price hike
 
#TLAwards2025 #BesOverallValuePhone #CMFPhone2Pro

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