CMF Phone 2 Pro to Come with Essential Key and AI-Powered Essential Space Feature

The phone is teased to get a dedicated “Essential key” located on the phone’s right spine, next to the power button.

Written by Shaurya Tomer, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 21 April 2025 10:35 IST

CMF Phone 2 Pro to Come with Essential Key and AI-Powered Essential Space Feature

Photo Credit: X/ CMF by Nothing

Essential Space is said to store information and recall it later using AI

Highlights

A dedicated Essential Key is teased on the CMF Phone 2 Pro
The key is said to enable the AI-powered Essential Space feature
Essential Space collects screenshots, photos, and voice notes

CMF Phone 2 Pro is scheduled to be launched globally and in India on April 28. Leading up to its debut, the Nothing subsidiary has been teasing various aspects of the upcoming handset, the latest of which is its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. CMF by Nothing has confirmed that the Phone 2 Pro will be equipped with an AI-powered Essential Space feature that was introduced with the Nothing Phone 3a series on March 4, along with a dedicated button for it to function.

Essential Space on CMF Phone 2 Pro

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), CMF by Nothing announced that users will be able to tap into their “second memory”, the Essential Space feature, on the CMF Phone 2 Pro. Similar to the Nothing Phone 3a series, it will be activated with a dedicated “Essential key” located on the phone's right spine, next to the power button.

Tap into your second memory with Essential Space.

Brought to life with AI. Capture, organise and take action on CMF Phone 2 Pro. pic.twitter.com/NOAwhcesUy
— CMF by Nothing (@cmfbynothing) April 20, 2025

Once invoked, the Essential Space functions as a one-stop solution to gather all sorts of data such as screenshots, photos, and voice notes, and recall them using AI. Further, it is also confirmed to get another feature dubbed smart collections which is said to sort audio, images, and text into relevant collections, thus eliminating the need for manual organisation of data.

The teaser clip accompanying the social media post hints towards Essential Space offering a similar functionality to the Nothing Phone 3a series on the CMF Phone 2 Pro.

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While the Essential Key also supports a Camera Capture feature on the Nothing Phone 3a series, it remains unknown if the same will also be made available on the upcoming CMF Phone 2 Pro. With this, users may potentially be able to quickly snap photos and send them to Essential Space when the camera is invoked.

CMF Phone 2 Pro Specifications (Confirmed)

CMF Phone 2 Pro is confirmed to be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro processor. The company claims it will deliver a 10 percent faster CPU and up to five percent graphics improvement over last year's CMF Phone 1. For handling AI tasks, the processor will be complemented by MediaTek's sixth-generation NPU which is said to deliver 4.8 tera operations per second (TOPS) of performance.

For optics, the phone will sport a triple rear camera setup, comprising a 50-megapixel 1/1.57-inch sensor, a 50-megapixel telephoto camera with 2x optical zoom, and an 8-megapixel ultra-wide camera with a 119.5-degree field of view. The handset is teased to provide 120 fps (frames per second) support for BGMI and a 1,000Hz touch sampling rate.

More details are expected to surface as the launch, scheduled for April 28, nears.

Nothing Phone 3a

REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Design
Display
Software
Performance
Battery Life
Camera
Value for Money

Good
Sharp 120Hz display
Fun and engaging software
Variety of cameras
Good daylight cameras
Good battery life

Bad
Low light video needs work
IP rating could have been better
Does not support HDR10+ video streaming

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Further reading: CMF Phone 2 Pro, CMF Phone 2 Pro Specifications, CMF Phone 2 Pro Features, CMF Phone 2 Pro India Launch, AI, Essential Space, CMF, Nothing

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