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This is the OnePlus dude right?
Yes he was one of the co-founders of OnePlus, but he left to start up Nothing.
So he left oneplus for nothing?
What’s the deal with Nothing Phone? Is it just a regular phone with a gimmicky case?
Nowadays having a phone with half decent pricing that runs pure Android (near pure but wtv), it’s rare. Specially since they ship to the entire Europe while Google doesn’t. (Google goes to the extreme of locking features of Pixels being used outside of the countries they sell in)
I live in Denmark and have multiple friends with Google/Pixel phones that work perfectly, fwiw.
When I tried to purchase one people in reviews said Google disabled 5G on it.
Google has an interactive guide for checking 5G compatibility in all countries where Pixel is available. As far as I can tell, all 4 major Danish carriers support Sub-6 5G required by Pixel phones, so there should be no problem.
Maybe other countries have issues with Sub-6, and people made up some BS about Google “disabling 5G”? Where are you located?
It’s a known fact that Google disables 5G on countries where Pixel is non listed. They should work, since other brands don’t have any trouble with it (I guess bands are standardised throughout Europe).
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/229334870?pli=1
I wanted to buy the phone in Amazon, and in the comments there were people warning regarding the 5G situation. Google disable it in the software.
Edit: Checking that guide it should work, a year have passed so maybe they stopped doing that bullshit.
Yeah pretty much. Like OnePlus back in the day, I think it’s targeting a very specific group of people who are passionate about smartphones and want something that feels unique and exclusive.
Pretty much. First one was priced well, 2nd is overpriced. Lots of pretentious marketing too, over essentially what amounts to a gimmick yeah.
I mean you could describe basically every phone as this. iPhone is “just a regular phone with a locked down OS”, foldables are “just regular phones with a flexible screen”. Different people have different design sensibilities, to some this might be ideal.
And it has built-in NFTs!!1!
Care to elaborate? I am thinking about buying a Nothing Phone 2 but NFT would be definetly a no go.
Writing this on a phone 2. No nfts here, so no idea what they’re talking about.
What do you mean? You obviously have an NFT (Nothing Fone Two).
… you clever bastard…
On their site they advertise that their phones have an NFT library and that you can access them through your home screen. It’s avoidable, but integrated.
I don’t remember seeing any of that… and just checked my phone and their website and didn’t find any mentions of nfts
See Quokka’s comment above
I know, I saw that. But I don’t see the NFT gallery on my phone at all. Was it something they added? Or did they plan to add it and then just not do it? Because it wasn’t on my phone when I got it, and I can’t find any kind of separate app on the Play store from nothing
Thanks :) are you happy with your device?
So far yea. Battery life has been great, phone is very snappy, display is beautiful, sounds great. The only things I don’t like are that visual voicemail doesn’t seem to work (issue with T-Mobile moreso than the phone), wish the IP rating was at least 67 (it’s 54 I believe), and I wish either the fingerprint area was alittle higher on the display or just replaced with a rear fingerprint scanner. Other than that tho it’s been great.
On the software side, I’m surprised to see nothing is so proactive. When I first got the phone I posted on their discord about how we should have the ability to hide apps in the app drawer and group them into folders, and they’ve already announced hiding apps is coming in a later update. No update on folders tho. It’s very clean, and there are some nice features like native app locking and cloning apps.
I bought the phone 2 to test drive it for 30 days, but was leaning on returning it and waiting for the pixel 8. I’ve been slowly leaning towards keeping this tho. The overall experience is just so stable and smooth.
https://medium.com/@olatunjimayowa0396/the-nothing-os-nfts-3d7d2a3dbb36
https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/06/nothing-phone-nft/amp/
I hope they call their other brand “something”
Zero.
One
One…Plus.
Going full circle.
This is a fucking ad.
Is Nothing sacred?
Chew My Farts is my favourite phone brand!
Off-topic, but how many lentils have you hoarded?
You may have to ask him on !nothing@lemdro.id!
Cuck My Father?
Why would I create a whole sub-brand for my cheaper line of products? Why not put it under the same umbrella? What’s the benefit?
So that they don’t dilute the brand recognition of Nothing. Same reason Toyota has both Toyota-branded and Lexus-branded cars.
Samsung, apple, OnePlus they didn’t make a sub brand for their cheaper line of devices, all under the same brand
Surprisingly, different companies can follow different marketing strategies.
I what?!