The main thing that pulls me towards this phone is the flat design and symmetrical bezels... I love the iphone design but prefer android, so this is a perfect blend of those two.. I wish they had the front camera in the center... I think, this is a decent phone considering this is the first one.. I hope there will be quite a lot improvememts over coming gens...
I actually prefer it to the side personally, I think it’s less intrusive when watching videos. Each to their own though, would be interested to know why you prefer it centred?
@@Kyle_OutOfOffice its symmetrical and.. just seems natural.. dono.. smth like that.. used to centered punch hole.. you know what i m saying.. so thats it..😅
I can only imagine what “Nothing 2/3/4” Will be like. Keep the price low, allow glyph customisation you’ll have a lot of iPhone switchers. My wife already left iPhone after 13yrs.
Nah they even said nothing phone 2 will go full premium and price will be same as competition even xiaomi now has same price as samsung and iphone its marketing trick people this high price = high quality
I LOVE that Sam talks about haptics in every phone review. The feel of great haptics is so hard to communicate, but makes a phone feel ultra premium when done right.
I subscribed to this channel simply because each frame of this video was such a visual delight. It doesn't matter if I'm on a hunt for phones, I just love the way this video was created 😍😍 keep it up mate 👍
Your videos are pretty much like a Wall paper frame for me, i mean all those close up shots are suuuuuuper eye pleasing and oh manh the color tones uh! I am a nothing phone user and i can tell you i am adoring my white variant even so more now after seeing those details ! Hands down you're from those fine tech tuber who know what pleases an eye. Kudos Sam! keep up the MAGIC ♥
I Jst want to ask is there like any really noticeable or annoying bug in the is and is there any important features it’s missing coming from more established os
Preparing to buy one of these - great video that actually helps me make a decision. Love the actual photography of this as well; this vid looks awesome!
Comparing the Nothing Phone to the Oneplus 8T(my current phone), the benchmark scores for the CPU are actually shockingly close considering the 8T has a flagship 865 in it. I know benchmarks don't tell the full story, but it seems that at least according to GSMArena, both CPU benchmark performance and battery life are VERY close between the two. GPU the 865 pulls ahead, but I'm not a heavy gamer. The other things stopping me from considering Nothing are the price and the fact that they aren't selling to North America, at least for now. Maybe Carl Pei will take Nothing to the old OnePlus glory days?
the only problem about "the enthusiast device" people who will make the device successful will be left hanging in the future. oneplus was great in terms of listening to the community when they started but they slowly shifted to selling themselves out to get more market outside of the enthusiast crowd
7:27 you don’t have to go to that menu, go to the hotspot toggle and make sure you click the smaller circle where the hotspot logo is and then it toggles it on and off instead of going through the other menu, same thing goes the the WiFi and mobile data toggles
Hello, you please tell me 1. Can the haptics strenth be increased and decreased on nothing 1? 2. Can you connect to a wifi and share it via hotspot? Or just you can only share your sim data via hotspot?
To turn on the hotspot, you don't need to keep swiping. You can just click on mobile data and the 3 options will appear (mobile data, hotspot and wifi)
AFAIK that makes the entire swiping redundant. If you swipe to hotspot and it opens the same menu as if you clicked on wifi then it's useless. Maybe the devs planning to inlcude the feature mentioned in this video.
7:22 if you actually tap on the icon then you can directly turn on or off that option. If you tap anywhere other than the icon only then it'll open up the the detailed view of that option.
I actually want this phone to be successful so they might introduce a larger and more powerful version of the nothing phone. Yes I’m a iPhone user but I always look into android for substitutes.
I think the glyph lights were just supposed to be the little feature that grabbed people's attention. It did just that, I don't believe they ever really intended it to be the main selling point of the phone. If I had to guess anyhow.
Appreciate the well thought out review and everything you covered, and it was a massive encouragement to go with the nothing next time around...but what is that cute little thing on your desk that has 5 teal keycaps, 1 pink keycap, and a little copper-tipped toggle switch?!? and a screen and speaker perhaps? It is in multiple top-down shots in the video where you have the phone on a desk and it is adorable.
Yessss. Thank you. The changes you mentioned regarding the launcher would be awesome. Maybe add changing individual icons and labels and that would make it perfect.
As an oppo user, with a curved egg, it infuriates me that I cannot get a decent android with flat edges... I'm happily downgrading specs to this phone shortly. Just for the flat edges
Have been waiting for this one for a while now! great to hear your thoughts Sam! very pleased to hear that the mid tier chip isn't feeling life one, that was by far my biggest concern. Excited to see what Google brings to the party in October, but solid job from Nothing! #nohatgang
This phone costs 550€ in my region, while i can order a new xiaomi mi 11 ultra for 650€, or a used mint condition Note 20 Ultra for 550€ or an iphone 12 pro for 600. All of these phones outperform this phone heavily. They priced themselves completely off for many regions.
Like design, it is gimmicky but still likable. Im not sure is it going to be ugrade from my Huawei p40 (non pro), mainly camera and battery part. I think for the price its decent device.
OnePlus truly improvised it's launcher may be Nothing will also add some useful feature in it's launcher. But if we get a good software with good hardware meanwhile we can use Nova Launcher 😁
I have been looking for a good phone to replace my oneplus 5. In this price every smartphone have some issue like bad chip, bad OS (miui), or lack of android updates and the nothing phone seems to be a solid phone for normal daily use.
Same here, I want to upgrade my 6t, but every other Android has a deal breaker for me. Pixel 6 has bad next work reception I heard, 6a has 60hz, galaxy devices are bad for the custom ROM community smh. Nothing phone has the gimmick lights
That was Nothing main goal, is not and Iphone killer but an Iphone customers stealer. Its an android with the premium feel of an Iphone but still good for android users since Nothing is a small company and is more closer to users feedback so there is a bigger chance of them implementing user suggest features + is a clean android skin so you dont have to live with unwanted features
@@luisesteves3890 ever heard of OnePlus 7 and how they claimed to be "a small company" despite them and oppo running in same office? You have memory of a goldfish.
it’s a tool people can choose whether to use or not. Even without smartphones, parents can already spy on their children in their own ways. We can’t blame these companies because there are scenarios where they are really useful to have. If some parents abuse that, that’s on them.
@@mikiedre parents don't need to spy to stop that they just need to actually be parents instead of handing their children over to the electronic babysitter
Hey Sam ! Can you make a guide on rooting ? I have my bootloader unlocked and I'm running the Evolution X custom rom . Can you make a video on the perks of root?
The fingerprint scanner is fine. When it wasn't working, you were barely putting your fingertip over the sensor area. Of course it wasn't going to work. 🙄
Almost all the devices I came across had bad battery life on Android 12, I myself; had to downgrade to One UI 3.1 from One UI 4 due to poor battery life and some people claimed that Android 13 improved the battery life over Android 12
I suspect you have you bootloader unlocked I am also facing poor performance in battery after updating One UI but here in Canada we have locked bootloaders 😔
The network toggles on the top are as easy to use as in any other Android phone. You just need to tap and it opens the toggles to Mobile data, Wi-Fi and Hotspot. Yes there is an extra tap needed to turn on those. But it's not as you say. Like to swipe three times and then tap it to open Hotspot. Not to sound rude but How are you people not seeing this. Every TH-camr says the same thing over and over again. So is this how you test a phone after having used it for over a month. I've been using the phone for more than a month. Do check that
Yes definitely aware that you can tap any of the three toggles to open the Network menu, but then what is the point of those other 2 toggles? Nothing really should make them tappable.
@@sambeckman they're finally now actually toggles after update 1.1.7, was also asking for this since launch. The front tile also now swaps between WiFi and Mobile data depending on which one is currently in use
What a good review. Can u review magic ui and fun ui please, love to see software review which others never do and actually crucial to know. Because last time my oppo find x3 pro change colors(screen becomes more crisp and darker actually looks betters) while decrease or increase volume while web browse watching. By the way super annoying bc of that i changed to Samsung.
I'm so sad, I've never seen to this days a phone that satisfy me in all its aspects, maybe the xiaomi? idk, but there's always something bothering me, I want a good camera, a cool design, good personalization options and good battery and sound quality
it's a great phone i rly like mine tbh! and that airdroid app is so intrusive that's why i got rid of my previous phone i didn't want my parents being able to open my cam or listen through my mic at any time (especially without my knowledge). i'm ok with them checking up on me but not spying on me...
shame about the battery life, otherwise I'd probably pick this up in a heart beat. All i want in a phone is an all day guranteed battery, flat screen, decent display and enough performance to run smoothly on most apps. Bought an S21 ultra earlier this year and was so hopeful for Nothing
7:38 - You don't really have to swipe over to the hotspot section, just tap the shortcut toggle at any of the three pages, and the same popup menu will appear.
@@dheeraj3945 I would argue that its more convenient to just tap the shortcut toggle and get the menu with all the toggles at the bottom of the screen, rather than to swipe between the actual toggles in the quicksettings, which is at the top of the screen.
I love your style and video hope one day to reach that. Anyway I wrote this comment because I was shocked I wasn't subscribed to you. Now it's corrected. Can't wait for the next one.
The main thing that pulls me towards this phone is the flat design and symmetrical bezels... I love the iphone design but prefer android, so this is a perfect blend of those two.. I wish they had the front camera in the center... I think, this is a decent phone considering this is the first one.. I hope there will be quite a lot improvememts over coming gens...
maybe Nothing Phone 2 they will put the camera at the center.
I actually prefer it to the side personally, I think it’s less intrusive when watching videos. Each to their own though, would be interested to know why you prefer it centred?
@@mahfudz8138 yea.. hopefully..
@@Kyle_OutOfOffice its symmetrical and.. just seems natural.. dono.. smth like that.. used to centered punch hole.. you know what i m saying.. so thats it..😅
@@exhaustnotemusic5835 Fair enough dude!
I can only imagine what “Nothing 2/3/4” Will be like. Keep the price low, allow glyph customisation you’ll have a lot of iPhone switchers. My wife already left iPhone after 13yrs.
Nah they even said nothing phone 2 will go full premium and price will be same as competition even xiaomi now has same price as samsung and iphone its marketing trick people this high price = high quality
I LOVE that Sam talks about haptics in every phone review. The feel of great haptics is so hard to communicate, but makes a phone feel ultra premium when done right.
Great haptics make all the difference when using a phone. It's one of the best ways to instantly communicate quality.
when i went from the a51 to the pixel 7 i felt like i went 200 years in the future
fgnendn PPI1 A
This reviews are Top Notch, the effort in every scene, it just looks so clean, so cinematic, pleasant to watch.
I subscribed to this channel simply because each frame of this video was such a visual delight. It doesn't matter if I'm on a hunt for phones, I just love the way this video was created 😍😍 keep it up mate 👍
Dude, your videos are always a blast to watch. Best visuals on TH-cam by far. Keep up the fantastic work mate!
Your videos are pretty much like a Wall paper frame for me, i mean all those close up shots are suuuuuuper eye pleasing and oh manh the color tones uh! I am a nothing phone user and i can tell you i am adoring my white variant even so more now after seeing those details ! Hands down you're from those fine tech tuber who know what pleases an eye.
Kudos Sam! keep up the MAGIC ♥
I Jst want to ask is there like any really noticeable or annoying bug in the is and is there any important features it’s missing coming from more established os
The thing that makes this phone that much better are the symmetric bezels that follow the curvature of the phone
Preparing to buy one of these - great video that actually helps me make a decision. Love the actual photography of this as well; this vid looks awesome!
Comparing the Nothing Phone to the Oneplus 8T(my current phone), the benchmark scores for the CPU are actually shockingly close considering the 8T has a flagship 865 in it. I know benchmarks don't tell the full story, but it seems that at least according to GSMArena, both CPU benchmark performance and battery life are VERY close between the two. GPU the 865 pulls ahead, but I'm not a heavy gamer. The other things stopping me from considering Nothing are the price and the fact that they aren't selling to North America, at least for now. Maybe Carl Pei will take Nothing to the old OnePlus glory days?
the only problem about "the enthusiast device" people who will make the device successful will be left hanging in the future. oneplus was great in terms of listening to the community when they started but they slowly shifted to selling themselves out to get more market outside of the enthusiast crowd
7:27 you don’t have to go to that menu, go to the hotspot toggle and make sure you click the smaller circle where the hotspot logo is and then it toggles it on and off instead of going through the other menu, same thing goes the the WiFi and mobile data toggles
Hello, you please tell me
1. Can the haptics strenth be increased and decreased on nothing 1?
2. Can you connect to a wifi and share it via hotspot? Or just you can only share your sim data via hotspot?
Hey, can u tell me how to add wifi and mobile data shortcut?
Subscribed because you're one of the very few reviewers that covers haptic quality on phones. ❤️
To turn on the hotspot, you don't need to keep swiping. You can just click on mobile data and the 3 options will appear (mobile data, hotspot and wifi)
AFAIK that makes the entire swiping redundant. If you swipe to hotspot and it opens the same menu as if you clicked on wifi then it's useless. Maybe the devs planning to inlcude the feature mentioned in this video.
I think they should replace the glyph with a dot matrix style display, and allow you to write messages to it :)
i have it since the launch , its a beast of a phone
Dude your video quality is getting amazingly better now. Bravo
great review. finally a reviewer that cares about haptics. it's mindbending how most never mention em. respect 😎🔥
I'm a nothing user after update it's an fantastic phone now ❤️
How is battery
I’m mainly an iOS user but I love this channel. Top quality vids man keep doing what you’re doing
Great to finally see your review. Loved using the Phone(1) but the camera was a serious let down sadly for me
Man Gcam port is a game changer!!
Your videos are definitely worth watching in full quality 👌🏻
I live the boxy iPhone design 😌😌
Great visuals in the video. Big up your production team!
7:22 if you actually tap on the icon then you can directly turn on or off that option. If you tap anywhere other than the icon only then it'll open up the the detailed view of that option.
Quality of the overall video suprised me, just subbed man keep up the great work! 👏
Those shots man. Incredibly beautiful
This is an interesting phone. It almost feels like an Essential phone 2, had it been released. I like it overall.
I actually want this phone to be successful so they might introduce a larger and more powerful version of the nothing phone. Yes I’m a iPhone user but I always look into android for substitutes.
I think the glyph lights were just supposed to be the little feature that grabbed people's attention. It did just that, I don't believe they ever really intended it to be the main selling point of the phone. If I had to guess anyhow.
Your production editing and color grading are top notch
Appreciate the well thought out review and everything you covered, and it was a massive encouragement to go with the nothing next time around...but what is that cute little thing on your desk that has 5 teal keycaps, 1 pink keycap, and a little copper-tipped toggle switch?!? and a screen and speaker perhaps? It is in multiple top-down shots in the video where you have the phone on a desk and it is adorable.
The wifi, mobile data etc are toggles too. You have to actually click on the symbols. If you click outside the symbols, it opens shortcuts.
Yessss. Thank you. The changes you mentioned regarding the launcher would be awesome. Maybe add changing individual icons and labels and that would make it perfect.
I love the intro man i played 50+ times to listen the music and beats matchup video love u man
We have the same taste of the color. More on soft palate. I love your wall papers
As an oppo user, with a curved egg, it infuriates me that I cannot get a decent android with flat edges... I'm happily downgrading specs to this phone shortly. Just for the flat edges
Have been waiting for this one for a while now! great to hear your thoughts Sam! very pleased to hear that the mid tier chip isn't feeling life one, that was by far my biggest concern.
Excited to see what Google brings to the party in October, but solid job from Nothing!
#nohatgang
This phone costs 550€ in my region, while i can order a new xiaomi mi 11 ultra for 650€, or a used mint condition Note 20 Ultra for 550€ or an iphone 12 pro for 600.
All of these phones outperform this phone heavily. They priced themselves completely off for many regions.
I bought it in 361 euros in India.
Great video as always. Keep up the good work, Sam!
Sam's visuals are insane, can't tell if some of them are 3D renders lol Up there with The Verge's or Marquees for sure
Like design, it is gimmicky but still likable. Im not sure is it going to be ugrade from my Huawei p40 (non pro), mainly camera and battery part. I think for the price its decent device.
OnePlus truly improvised it's launcher may be Nothing will also add some useful feature in it's launcher. But if we get a good software with good hardware meanwhile we can use Nova Launcher 😁
I have been looking for a good phone to replace my oneplus 5. In this price every smartphone have some issue like bad chip, bad OS (miui), or lack of android updates and the nothing phone seems to be a solid phone for normal daily use.
Same here, I want to upgrade my 6t, but every other Android has a deal breaker for me. Pixel 6 has bad next work reception I heard, 6a has 60hz, galaxy devices are bad for the custom ROM community smh. Nothing phone has the gimmick lights
That was Nothing main goal, is not and Iphone killer but an Iphone customers stealer. Its an android with the premium feel of an Iphone but still good for android users since Nothing is a small company and is more closer to users feedback so there is a bigger chance of them implementing user suggest features + is a clean android skin so you dont have to live with unwanted features
I'm also looking to upgrade from OP5 but deciding between nothing phone and iPhone hmm...
@@luisesteves3890 ever heard of OnePlus 7 and how they claimed to be "a small company" despite them and oppo running in same office? You have memory of a goldfish.
@@kemistrypops I use a moto edge 30 and it's better than nothing in all ways
that intro is crazyy fire
the quality of this video is insane
If they put 870 on this device, I think alot of people make easier to decision.
In my opinion the Vibration Motor for the haptics is too loud
i feel the same
quality content! thanks man! excited to receive mine
You just helped me decide whether to sell my op 8 pro. Now im confident in buying the nothing
The hype for this phone seemed to die down so fast.
Loving the longer hair era Sam!
I found a trick for the fingerprint issue, sort of, register the same finger twice, it will work every time and it will be slightly faster.
If you added $300 and upgraded the main parts, it wouldn't be a flagship killer- it would BE a flagship 🤣
Beautiful video. I love what did here 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
the production quality on these videos!
That intro was Amazing! I got MKBHD vibes of it Keep it up!🔥
can you do the asus zenfone 9 next? i feel it's a phenomenal phone that deserves recognition
Probably one of the best phones you can buy right now.
@@1903JPG lol
@@efeste1173 he was right 👍
Hey Sam, can you make a dedicated video on Nothing Camera improvements and comparison with pixel 6a.
As much as the sponsor is a great app to have for parents, I just can't help but feel that it will be abused by parents to spy on their children
it’s a tool people can choose whether to use or not. Even without smartphones, parents can already spy on their children in their own ways. We can’t blame these companies because there are scenarios where they are really useful to have. If some parents abuse that, that’s on them.
There's no such thing as parents spying on thier children ... CHILDREN!!! are thier responsibility.
@@mikiedre children are allowed to have their own privacy man.
@@bigbunn_ that's why you see children doing what they do now .
@@mikiedre parents don't need to spy to stop that they just need to actually be parents instead of handing their children over to the electronic babysitter
Hey Sam ! Can you make a guide on rooting ? I have my bootloader unlocked and I'm running the Evolution X custom rom . Can you make a video on the perks of root?
Nice review, thank you!
Classy as usual, another well crafted piece of art…..👍🏼
Hey, Sam! You should definitely check out A13 beta for NP1, I'm sure, you'll find it interesting!
When will you make a guide for your Nothing Phone (1) setup?
appreciate the aspect ratio ❤️❤️looks gud on my op 8 pro
I really wish I could have that phone it's my dream phone right now
Your production level is getting great overtime, really appreciate your edit efforts. Keep up the great work 💪🏻
Yo
Subway Surfers looks so good on this phone,
I may consider buying it.
🦆
1.1.4 came - would you test it? Camera and battery became better.
120 Hz without the smallest node and the best battery efficiency metrics is always going to be a tradeoff.
That intro was epic 🔥💯
How do you make every phone look so good in your videos? Much better than the marketing images for some of them
The fingerprint scanner is fine. When it wasn't working, you were barely putting your fingertip over the sensor area. Of course it wasn't going to work. 🙄
Good review with great visuals 🔥🔥
🔹️ I wish the screen bezels were a little thinner
Almost all the devices I came across had bad battery life on Android 12, I myself; had to downgrade to One UI 3.1 from One UI 4 due to poor battery life and some people claimed that Android 13 improved the battery life over Android 12
I suspect you have you bootloader unlocked I am also facing poor performance in battery after updating One UI but here in Canada we have locked bootloaders 😔
I wish Nothing adds an option to close all apps. I have a habit of just opening a bunch and then just closing all of them, minus the ones I locked.
Hey Sam
This phone just got better with the Android 13 update ....and its been about 6 months
How about another review???
Is it good to but this phone now? I was thinking to buy one for my Dad.
The network toggles on the top are as easy to use as in any other Android phone. You just need to tap and it opens the toggles to Mobile data, Wi-Fi and Hotspot. Yes there is an extra tap needed to turn on those. But it's not as you say. Like to swipe three times and then tap it to open Hotspot. Not to sound rude but How are you people not seeing this. Every TH-camr says the same thing over and over again. So is this how you test a phone after having used it for over a month. I've been using the phone for more than a month. Do check that
Yes definitely aware that you can tap any of the three toggles to open the Network menu, but then what is the point of those other 2 toggles? Nothing really should make them tappable.
Agreed ✌🏼
@@sambeckman they're finally now actually toggles after update 1.1.7, was also asking for this since launch. The front tile also now swaps between WiFi and Mobile data depending on which one is currently in use
15:29 15:38 15:40
I still love the haptics that my og smartphone nokia c7 gave
What a good review. Can u review magic ui and fun ui please, love to see software review which others never do and actually crucial to know. Because last time my oppo find x3 pro change colors(screen becomes more crisp and darker actually looks betters) while decrease or increase volume while web browse watching. By the way super annoying bc of that i changed to Samsung.
I'm so sad, I've never seen to this days a phone that satisfy me in all its aspects, maybe the xiaomi? idk, but there's always something bothering me, I want a good camera, a cool design, good personalization options and good battery and sound quality
Hate to not make this about the video, but are you doing one of those Home Screen setup videos for iPhone 14 pro?
I have a question, what is that little retro computer looking knick knack in the video???
it's a great phone i rly like mine tbh! and that airdroid app is so intrusive that's why i got rid of my previous phone i didn't want my parents being able to open my cam or listen through my mic at any time (especially without my knowledge). i'm ok with them checking up on me but not spying on me...
shame about the battery life, otherwise I'd probably pick this up in a heart beat. All i want in a phone is an all day guranteed battery, flat screen, decent display and enough performance to run smoothly on most apps. Bought an S21 ultra earlier this year and was so hopeful for Nothing
Just average Android battery life
Crazy you just described my phone 😮💨
holy crap that intro was so sick!
m eagerly waiting for version 2🤘🏼
7:38 - You don't really have to swipe over to the hotspot section, just tap the shortcut toggle at any of the three pages, and the same popup menu will appear.
The feature sounds awfully lot like what Microsoft did with Windows 11 😂
@@dheeraj3945 I would argue that its more convenient to just tap the shortcut toggle and get the menu with all the toggles at the bottom of the screen, rather than to swipe between the actual toggles in the quicksettings, which is at the top of the screen.
@@itsnorob isn't it better convenience if it's further decluttered and a drop down is popped up directly for relevant sub texts?
Yes definitely aware of this, just wish they did act as toggles!
I wonder why they even allow swiping in first case then
Aren't they supposed to be upping it's screen brightness again in a future update . I hope the screen isn't as dull as the pixel 6's
I love your style and video hope one day to reach that. Anyway I wrote this comment because I was shocked I wasn't subscribed to you. Now it's corrected. Can't wait for the next one.
I just want my 3G non Android phone back! I don't need a search engine in my purse! People have addictive personalities here!
Is there going to be a review on the z fold 4?
Those B Rolls 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
During your review, which Nothing OS version were you running ?
For some reason i like your reviews so much! Perhaps the quality of the video or the presentation idk! Please do comparisons
It has a cinematic vibe about it. Yet it doesn't feel so typical tech reviewer esque
Does everyone is observing pink tint in control panel, while scrolling in Netflix and Twitter? Or it is only limited to few devices?
i am not even buying nothing phone 1, but man the production quality is amazing
i just bought this phone
@@rishickt How is it so far? Would you recommend to switch to Nothing Phone from One Plus 5T?