True, and so far the "experience" is just a custom skin and LED gimmicks. In the end it's still Android, commodity OS.
Heck, if the founder himself uses an iPhone, that tells you something.
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Nothing Announces Phone 1 With Unique Translucent Design and 'Glyph Interface'
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Heck, if the founder himself uses an iPhone, that tells you something.
Is this phone running iOS? No, it runs Android. So let's compare to other Android phones, where 120Hz AMOLED and SD778 is no longer that premium. Like I mentioned Galaxy A52s has SD778, 120Hz AMOLED, 4 years OS upgrades, for $300. Meanwhile, for $400 or more, you can already get SD8xx class SoC with 120Hz AMOLED as well and 256GB storage.
Apple can sell iPhone 13 for $800 because it has Apple brand. Apple brand does carries that premium pricing. Nothing's brand is worth nothing right now.
The Nothing phone is just hyping up juvenile youtubers who went gaga just because of LED gimmicks. Just like those neon-lighted PC cases.
Or a screen, wait, might as well use AoD on the main screen.
The LED notification gimmicks is a solution for nothing (pun intended).
200,000 preorders is close to nothing in such business.
A company that has devices assembled in China and pretends to be better than Apple with a supposedly particularly innovative approach; quite arrogant. To keep an OS up to date internationally requires a well-filled cash register. I think that these risk investors are once again sinking money into a daring idea.
A company that has devices assembled in China and pretends to be better than Apple with a supposedly particularly innovative approach; quite arrogant. To keep an OS up to date internationally requires a well-filled cash register. I think that these risk investors are once again sinking money into a daring idea.
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The SE has IP67 water and dust resistance; this phone has no stated water resistance. I would not buy a phone without water resistance in 2022!
Even the Samsung Galaxy A52s, which has the same SD778 and 120Hz AMOLED, has IP67, and it’s just $300. One has to beg the question the value of this Nothing phone since it will be running the same commodity apps on any other Android phone.
No; not at all. I have been educated to be tolerant, to have an open mind and treat everyone with respect.
My kids like Android phones. As I have already written, I find this smartphone to have a great value, regarding design/features/price here, in europe.
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A DGT USB board with DGT-Pi, DGT Centaur and I’ve got a Chessnut Air on the way. Planning on buying a Millenium e-board this fall. Although there are two apps on IOS (Whitepawn and the Chessnut Air app) that I can still use on an iPad Pro.
I do use 2 IOS apps (Chess Studio Pro and Chess Opener Pro).
Tom
Battery life will most likely be very good, better than the iphone 13 I would say.
The SD 778G+ is quite efficient in general and the phone has a lighter Android skin.
Its 500nits typical brightness, so in normal conditions(not only 500nits) which is not bad, obviously it can go higher(even for full screen brightness).
The real differentiator is the higher refresh rate.
The overall package is very decent for the price. And most phones(including iphone's) aren't special these days, maybe it's the case for foldable to be considered special.
Nothing special is just a cheap attempt at an irony to be honest.
This remark doesn't make sense.
The LEDs on the back of the phone are interesting. Very different!
Regardless, Apple set the trend for others to copy. The Nothing phone is not good taste, it's a juvenile copy of the iphone 12 design.take notes on how a modern, tasteful design should look like, hint: not like this:
Nothing Reminds me of people replacing their iphone glass backs with transparent versions. Seen that already even in the days of Nokia dumb phones where teenagers used transparent plastic housings on their phones.
yeah and I think the LED other than being useless will put a drain on the battery lol .. the irony about boasting bout the battery size only to add a drain to it.
