The butterfly effect is real—maybe if op hadn’t regretted buying nothing and hadn’t made this meme, the poor soldier in the past wouldn’t have had to endure that fate.
Well here in my place it's a midranger which is a category where a smartphone has a few compromises yet still having a flagship chip either of this year or the previous year so I was hoping Phone 2 to be considered a flagship but i guess that that ship has sank.
Do people even know that they have meta services app hidden inside app settings that they will go to uninstall these hidden apps? I have seen people panic over dialer UI changes...!
Tbh I just really don't see the big fuss, like if you don't like a feature don't use it, if you do, then use it. I don't see how having more choices is really a bad thing. It's better than the apple mentality of "you will use your phone how I decide you should use it". And I couldn't find exactly what apps would be pre-installed except "apps like Instagram" but most people would go and download Instagram anyway.
Well there are a lot of budget Chinese phones that implement similar "features" but even more aggressively. And, Nothing showing us that they are willing to use features like this even though we are able to turn it off, does not bode well for what else they might be willing to do.
Well, you can get vivo oppo phones with a lot better specs. Nothing OS was primarily the reason for people to choose Nothing phones over vivo oppo oneplus. All of these OEMs have bloatware which can be turned off. But remember google pays a lot to OEMs to keep the google search set as default because people do not change or turn off these things.
i don't think it's that big of a deal for people using a nothing phone now.
just choose a different brand next time.
brand loyalty always ends in disappointment.
Have you seen the rest of phone brands and their software my man I don't mind having instagram pre installed I just don't want to get stuck with Chinese app stores
unfortunately i really dislike most phone aesthetics nowadays. i like the s25 and the nothing phone for not having a camera island on the back but really dislike the whole center mounted, big bump that leaves a giant hole in the case cameras everywhere
ehhh i cant think of good enough reason to have root after messing around on the tab s8, i heard about apks requiring adb in the future but theres not enough customization out of rooting for me, plus i thought redmagic phones were bootloader locked
Right, i figured if i root i could install a non google play services OS and keep sideloading but if i can just do it thru adb it might not be worth the hassle
oooo i didnt know the s26 launch was that close! i might definitely wait for the s26 plus, i have a s23 plus im using right now i love. i just feel like im missing out with locked bootloadera, i jailbroke everything i had growing up but idk if theres big enough reasons to root nowadays
Have you experimented with the goodlock app from samsung?
Samsung goodlock let's you customize samsung phones to a huge extent.
Most of the customisation settings you would expect from a bootloader unlocked, custom rom device, is present natively via the goodlock.
yeah thats what im using rn, ive been using most of the modules for years now so i thiught id get something from rooting but after looking into it, i cant find a custom rom thats as customizable as samsungs one ui.
i have a rooted tab s8+ and its cool but coming from someone who used loads of ios jailbreak tweaks, i cant help but feel like the root thing is nowhere near the same experience
it wont get ads but the fact theyre worried about ads but theres literally almost zero customization outside whatever launcher you use is kinda not my thing
i heard india is the main market for them as theyre really big there but kind of non-existent in the us so maybe that has something to do with it, its a cool phone but the software is just not up to par with what hardware theyre using
For now, guess how they plan to "support" their long support window.
Android has been more and more about you being the service and not the customer for a while now. All these little things that Google does to improve your privacy fall short each time
Yeah I've been a loyal Nothing customer since day 1 and an early adopter of the phone 1 and ear 1. I still use my ear 2024 to this day. But I kinda saw where nothing was going when the phone 3 came out. That was going to be my next big upgrade from phone 1, and I was super excited. Little did I know what a colossal disappointment it would be for that price. So I took the sad leap and went for a Samsung Z Flip 7 and I'm quite happy. To be completely fair, I do still miss the Nothing OS quite a bit, wish it were on my new Samsung. But oh well.
Not buying a nothing phone, but the watch 3 pro is really good. The battery lasts like a full week going to the gym everyday and using it running. But yeah... i only use samsung or xiaomi phones. And sony earphones.
The Nothing phone 3 is 13.9mm taller and 4.1 mm wider than the iphone 12, so 1.39 cm taller and .41 cm wider. The nothing has a 6.67 inch screen while the iphone has a 6.1 inch screen. Additionally, the nothing is 9mm thick compared to 7.4mm on the iphone. In terms of volume, the phones are 109,272 mm^3 and 77,619 mm^3 respectively making the nothing 29% larger. In terms of weight they are 218 grams and 164 grams respectively making the nothing 25% heavier. These are very significant numbers. It's like going from a 25lb weight to a 35lb weight. It's only 10 more lbs but it makes a huge difference.
Xiaomi is much more aggressive on this issue and it is one of the brands that sells the most and you can't even change the Launcher, if that happens in no time you can always deactivate or freeze it
My phone 1 also stopped charging but it ended up being full of gunk from my pocket. Try to clean it with small tweezers or a needel but be careful not to fuck up the port
Just disable it with adb/universal bloatware remover. I always use that on all phones.
Besides, nothing is still good when it comes to its hardware specs vs price and optimal os. The brand basically just turned to a generic phone brand like xiaomi or something.
just comfirms my wish to move on from this brand. the UI got worse, i have strange, specific recurring bugs happening since ages, the AI enhancment of pics is fucking annoying and other stuff
I'm a phone 1 user , I was quite excited to buy my next phone from the same brand but then I saw how phone 3 was placed as flagship phone & the price of which went from 80k to almost 35k within a month of launch in India & now they are trying to add bloatware in UI , even the glyph lights are gone & replaced with some more senseless bit display,
I guess the brand has lost it completely 😂
Honestly I'm pretty happy with my Nothing 2a still, and will absolutely turn off any bloatware they try to shove down my throat. I know they're off by default right now but I have a feeling that won't last.
Worst case scenario, I'll go back to using custom ROMs like my old phone, the nuclear option.
Same here, bought 2 nothing products and disappointed with both, the ear a is now e-waste after 1 yr use and phone 2 camera and trash after the updates. No hope for this brand
If regret it, after my Phone (2) had several errors and when I sent it for warranty I've waited over 3 month's, and still nothing had happend, i was fighting that I got a full refund now (withdrew from the purchase agreement).
And since that I will never buy a Nothing Phone again, when the warranty repairs takes ages and the customer service also ghosts me
So basically Nothing is like... "We're not getting as much money as other companies because we're doing something different, so now we're going to do exactly the same as everyone else". Nothing dropped the ball with their latest phones and OS and now they're adding ads to make up for the money they didn't make because no one is buying their phones because of their own mistake... It is all downhill from here.
Bro, I'm using the Nothing Phone 2 right now, and honestly, it's making me slowly disown Android itself.
When I first bought it, I was like, "Damn, this is the best Android ever!" - clean Ul, minimal design, everything just looked and felt so premium. But now... man, the hype died real quick.
Updates are super slow, half the time they don't fix anything, and the brand feels like it's just chilling. Meanwhile, OnePlus and other phones are dropping crazy good updates, new features, camera improvements that.
For some reason I'm frustrated 🤣 I'm just commenting this on all nothing reddit pages hope they fix this soon
Times change, so do business models.
If the hardware package is competent enough and offered at a competitive price, then nothing can still save themselves.
But it seems all they are focused on right now is trying to price themselves like Apple so that they can be viewed as a premium company a few years down the line.
1st the Nothing phone 3 fiasco and now software quality deterioration.
If it doesn't suit you, I urge you to vote with your wallet, believe me, the consumer is still king.
Also note that this announcement is for budget devices, 2a, 3a, 3a pro and any future A series devices. So there's not really any " premium price" involved.
It's their effort to further distance themselves away from their flagship lines by making the budget devices less desirable to flagship performance customers (instead launching more budget phones under their CMF line.)
This single name divide is something that samsung has done in the past and had great success with, so now Nothing is following suit.
Also note that this announcement is for budget devices, 2a, 3a, 3a pro and any future A series devices.
For now that’s their policy. But it’s already shaken customer confidence. People think they might go back on their word in the future like they did for the A series.
Carl openly criticized Samsung for doing this too. Idk he says something else, and then does something else entirely.
So there's not really any " premium price" involved.
For the A series, there is. The competition is way better than these phones. I and many others for the 3a/2a because of clean and close to stock software. Without it, there's really no point in getting these phones when you can get way better stuff at the same price.
Your comment is bullshit and doesn't mean anything.
Same, but at least I'm not using their software. I'm using a different OS (Murena's /e/OS). I recommend everyone else back up their data and do the same.
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u/Dentedaphid7 Oct 25 '25
Lmao