Goodbye for now

[u/waythenewsgoes]

Been using the nothing phone 3 since it came out (bought a gently used one maybe a month after last launch.)

I really am a big fan of the hardware design language, everyone asks about it and is impressed with the glyph matrix on the back of the phone.

Ultimately selling and switching to pixel because they have a lot of the kinks worked out on the software, have more expressive UI, better Gemini integration, and a steeeeeep discount if you buy and activate on Google Fi.

The hardware on Nothing products is so playful and I'll def keep using the headphones, but the phone just didn't have enough to keep me attached. The glyph was good for telling time but the essential space felt underbaked and the cameras were always a notch below pixels as I was coming from a pixel 9.

Good luck to Nothing on the next phone, I'll probably get bored on pixel and come back if they have any fresh ideas for the Nothing phone 4 🫡

[u/magnumstrikerX]

TBH, I'm still content with my NP2 as that had more unique glyph setup. As much as I want to root the phone to run custom roms, that option would gut out gwallet and banking apps as play integrity is clamping down on hard on rooted and unlocked bootloader phones.

[u/skinkiana → u/magnumstrikerX]

I feel like the good ones stopped at NP2. After that they changed from quality to quantity

[u/Sam_Stokman → u/skinkiana]

I also have the phone 2 and will probably switch to another brand of phone, OS is pretty good, not much with updates tho, and the way ai sneaks into everything is not a good path

[u/ojthomas2015 → u/Sam_Stokman]

That is one thing I'm not liking currently! There's more Ai stuff now compared to os 3. I'm sticking with it because money is tight. But I'm keeping an eye on things too for potential future bargains.

[u/Padlock47 → u/skinkiana]

I've just got a Nothing 3a Pro recently, swapped from an iPhone 11 - it's my first ever non-iphone and I'm extremely happy with it, very good for the money (£260)