Nothing phone (1) in for review

19 July 2022
Let's look past all the hype and answer the important question - is this a good phone?

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  • Anonymous
  • KiX
  • 20 Jul 2022

The only good thing about this phone is to make more people realize the high quality of other phone brands.

Yes, i'm talking about phones with IP 67/68 rating, better quality display, better camera, longer software support, better ecosystem, better UI, etc.

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    • KiX
    • 20 Jul 2022

    AnonD-731363, 20 Jul 2022Man some of them are 2021 and some of them can cost as low ... moreFinally you admitted that even phones from 2021 are better than this mediocre disco phone, we are not even talk about phones from 2022.

    Let alone other phones with IP 67/68 rating /better quality display (no dead screen no green tint)/ longer software support/ more recognizable brand/ better camera/ better ecosystem/ worldwide official store, etc.

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      • Idkxx
      • n@x
      • 20 Jul 2022

      Anonymous, 20 Jul 2022pretending that nothing ain't a chinese brand? seriously?How is it chinese?

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        • Idkxx
        • n@x
        • 20 Jul 2022

        Carol, 20 Jul 2022Sorry but you're wrong. A phone that costs about the s... moreSells your data? Paranoid much? They both use the same OS and it's services so if one sells your data so does the other. Pixel phones has easily one of the most optimised experiences if not the most according to reviewers. It also has an unbeatable camera

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          • Idkxx
          • n@x
          • 20 Jul 2022

          Anonymous, 20 Jul 2022pixel 6 is 439 in uk at the moment. give me 1 reason to by ... more120hz referesh rate vs 60hz but I would still take pixel 6 for other advantages

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            • youwotmate
            • LhM
            • 20 Jul 2022

            Anonymous, 20 Jul 2022Xiaomi 12 or oppo find X5, Got my new X5 for £440 and it ab... moreNot sure where you are getting an Oppo X5 for £440 but I am interested

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              • Anonymous
              • 4Dy
              • 20 Jul 2022

              Carol, 20 Jul 2022Sorry but you're wrong. A phone that costs about the s... morepixel 6 is 439 in uk at the moment. give me 1 reason to by no phone poc over that

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                • Anonymous
                • 4Dy
                • 20 Jul 2022

                Carol, 20 Jul 2022Sorry but you're wrong. A phone that costs about the s... moreare you saying nothing/google does not do that? carol, by just adding o to carl, you can't change who you are... plus give me 1 reason why should I not buy a pixel 6 (499$ on prime day in usa, 449 in UK) over a company with 0 history and track record of software updates?

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 4Dy
                  • 20 Jul 2022

                  Carol, 20 Jul 2022Paperspecs detroy Nothing but peoples ability to understand... morepretending that nothing ain't a chinese brand? seriously?

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                    • Carol
                    • n@x
                    • 20 Jul 2022

                    Anonymous, 20 Jul 2022Xiaomi 12 or oppo find X5, Got my new X5 for £440 and it ab... morePaperspecs detroy Nothing but peoples ability to understand marketing or hardware... not that i care about all this chinese brands...

                      Here in the uk,a Poco x3 pro 6gb/256gb is half the price of the N phone.
                      The last decent phone Anyone made was the full
                      ZTE AXON 7.
                      Had everything,and kept "clean" or rooted and flashed,they are still almost as fast as most stuff from 2022.
                      As i keep pointing out,smartphones don't do anything new that couldn't be done on a Sony Ericsson p900,now almost 20 years old,all phones have got is a bit faster,a bit bigger and a lot more expensive to buy outright,which I've done since my second HTC hd2.

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                        • Carol
                        • n@x
                        • 20 Jul 2022

                        you have to suffer, 20 Jul 2022the price is too much for the specs. if you think this is n... moreSorry but you're wrong. A phone that costs about the same and has way "better" specs it definetly has a catch. Sell you, sell your data, rubbish quality, 3rd quality hardware batch'es, unpaied workers and all kinds of wrong doing. But why would you care, right? Then you ask yourself why you do not receive a good enough payment? Maybe because of people like you? Funny right? Now i am not defending Nothing phone, cause i do not consider it a proper contendent, but boy when i hear this specs wannabes that do not understand Marketing nor hardware, it just makes me cringe. Specs are nothing when software is garbage. Are also nothing when the CPU throws more calcul errors because of third quality batch where failure rate is up to 50%. It also brings nothing when components do not match in harmony and there is a bottleneck going on. Because vanila Android devices tend to be faster then a lot of android phones even with lesser specs, especially when put side by side to chinese ones, is not a coincidence...

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                          • xIk
                          • 20 Jul 2022

                          Anonymous, 20 Jul 2022Europeans are quite screwed, choice wise. Chinese phones ar... moreWell you can always buy new on ebay ive done it for awhile as i like the features you get with the korean model and they are the first to get software updates. Often cheaper as well! Plus they have the snapdragon chipset as opposed to the crappy exynos. Worth a look!

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                            • SH3
                            • 20 Jul 2022

                            Anonymous, 20 Jul 2022Xiaomi 12 or oppo find X5, Got my new X5 for £440 and it ab... moreMan some of them are 2021 and some of them can cost as low as 440 but not in european markets.

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                              • AnonD-731363
                              • SH3
                              • 20 Jul 2022

                              GAMIR3DH, 20 Jul 2022No, i need that damn charger. I give it to people in need o... moreMan nonremovable backs are here since 2006 when Vertu invented a cell phone with non removable back apple helped popularize this trend but they werent first and removing backk and tossing battery anywhere else apart the bin is creating E-Waste and pollution. Many people who dont know where to separate or recycle old batteries will put them to a trash bin with regular household trash.
                              Like most people you also dont care because its a lot easier spend hour finding a place where you can safely put old used battery than tossing it to your bin.

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                                • AnonD-731363
                                • SH3
                                • 20 Jul 2022

                                Anonymous, 20 Jul 2022You're correct. The galaxy a52s has better specs than ... moreMan A52s is year old not 2022 bad for comparison also it will have one year less updates.
                                by the way not mopre than month ago Australia fined Samsung by 14 millions for misleading water resistance ads.
                                Thus your desirable IP certification is nothing apart the costly gimmick not worth to have.
                                Even lowest of the low can survive few rain drops rest is just gimmick once your phone gets water damaged you have to pay for expensive repair and nothing you could do.
                                As long as no manufacturer include water damage into normal waranty you pay just for useless gimmick. By the way A52s is plastic made and comes with typical Samsung bloatware have only 6GB ram base model and comes with useless 5mpix depth and macro.
                                Also SD778G+ is 20% faster.
                                And there is lot more which you probably know but you will still praise worse A52s which is 1 year old.
                                Even S20 or S10 ultra cost less than A52s and are way better and i dont complain.
                                If you want compare then compare new 2022 devices not 1 year old ones with one less android update and several less security updates.



                                  From the reviews I've seen, the software isn't ready despite such a tidy hardware package. I hope they fix the issues before the team dives into this phone.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • mE0
                                    • 20 Jul 2022

                                    Android phone use to have the notification LED. I loved it when my phone's had them. I don't use AOD. But the LEDs on the back of this phone is what others have said too - it's a gimmick. Overpolished software just to put more uses on something that... Lights up.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • I@H
                                      • 20 Jul 2022

                                      are those leds in rgb?
                                      they might want to add some flare and let the leds light to the beat just like my xperia sp... then this would be a good spiritual successor of sp... 😊

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • spw
                                        • 20 Jul 2022

                                        Europeans are quite screwed, choice wise. Chinese phones are really 2 years type of gadgets when it comes to updates and security and Samsung is selling their crap chipsets at the high end.

                                        So you either get an iphone or a FE Samsung, which is not even a proper flagship.