Huh what? A generic android phone with a skin? Hmm what? Why is this news? Just a repeat of what has been done so many time, I'm sure Carl Pei or is it actually Pei Yu knows the supply chain business, gets some custom manufacturing, creates another rom/skin, and puts a ribbons around it and sells a few...But its not like he is introducing a new phone/ecosystem to the market...Just lipstick on on a pig as the saying goes...
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Nothing Plans to Launch Smartphone in US to Take on Apple's iPhone
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Price, for example. Why are you asking?
Yeah, just like Apple, over the last couple of years.
Though admittedly, Apple sometimes improve the guts, without bothering about putting new lipstick on that same old pug (to keep with the saying):
https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/
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Competition is always a good thing, I wish them luck
A 6yo could have told them that’s horrible, ignorant branding. Talking of self-fulfilling idiocy…
“Hey, I got an iPhone Pro Max Ultra Super-Duper Magical Aspirational Gen Z Wet Dream Addictive Ecosystem Device. What you got? - I got Nothing…” 🤷
“Hey, I got an iPhone Pro Max Ultra Super-Duper Magical Aspirational Gen Z Wet Dream Addictive Ecosystem Device. What you got? - I got Nothing…” 🤷
Nope is very handy and it is needed in a smartphone one, then you can download another map service, but Apple Maps is getting better and better. Bloeatware is all the crap that comes pre installed in Android phone like parallel App Store, ringtones apps, microsoft apps, sometime carrier apps... it is terrible.
Because mid-range android phones (from established companies too) were always an option for iOS users to switch to but I don't think many were convinced to do so. 'Nothing' doesn't bring much to the table to reasonably hope to change that. Most people will stay with the platform they know, even if they have to live with a boring looking phone.
If Apple doesn’t readjust the recent lurch towards advertisements and generally taking its user base for granted, I can see myself bailing out of the ecosystem I’ve so lovingly been a member of since 2002. I and many others choose Apple products because we figure they’re worth their premium prices. Take that away and we’re just a diaspora looking for a new destination that doesn’t suck.
I don’t have an answer, yet. I’m really hoping it doesn’t come to this... the idea of Linux on ugly x86 laptops and custom ROMs on plasticky phones doesn’t entice me very much. But heavens, why are they pushing us to the brink?
Calling yourself an “iPhone killer” is part of marketing. Everyone has done it, going back to Nokia
The funny part is the bit about taking on Apple or is this just a click-bait article? How is that even POSSIBLE, I ask? The iPhone runs on iOS and all other phones are on Android. Now it would have been better to say the "Nothing Phone" was going to take on the Samsung Galaxy and Pixel phones. You can't take on a phone when you have NO access to their platform.
Is it just me or does the lighting on the phone look like a stylized Apple logo, with the missing light in the upper right being the bite , and the diagonal above it the leaf?
If I was in the android ecosystem and liked larger phones it is a phone I'd consider. However I think the only thing that could get me to switch would be in a couple/few years when my 13 mini gets long in the tooth (or breaks) and Apple doesn't have a suitable small form factor replacement and one of the Android phone manufactures does.