NothingsmartphoneLast featured Mar 2024
Nothing Phone (1)
I'd buy itI'd buy this.
Won best mid-range phone as a home run from a new company, with intriguing design, reliable software and attention to detail.
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- Price when I covered it
- £399
- Featured in
- 5 videos · 2022–2024
- Category
- Phones · Mid-range
What I liked
- Unique design
- Sold almost 800,000 units
- Intriguing design
- Reliable software
- Good cameras
- Attention to detail
What I didn't
- Glyph felt like a gimmick
- Glyph interface felt like a party trick
- Less comfortable and looked like an iPhone clone from behind
- Glyph lighting adds little
- Three years of software updates
- No charger in the box
In my words
Straight from the video. Tap a timestamp to hear me say it.
“with their first phone won I labeled as a bit of a gimmick”
“it never to me felt like more than just a party trick”
“has hit a complete home run I'm talking about the nothing phone one”
“the lighting system is not much more than a party trick”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
0:07Nothing Phone (2a) Review - Did They Lie?Nothing's first phone introduced the Glyph lighting system.
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3:48Nothing Phone (2) Review - Better than iPhone!?Its Glyph interface felt like a gimmick to him, and the Phone (2) is described as a more confident successor.
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0:14Nothing Phone (2) Impressions ft Nothing CEO!The original Nothing phone was a £399 mid-ranger with a unique design, but he felt its Glyph lights were little more than a party trick.
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7:48The Best Smartphones for 2023!Won best mid-range phone as a home run from a new company, with intriguing design, reliable software and attention to detail.
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0:00Nothing Phone (1) Review - ACTUALLY Better than iPhone?A refined, great-looking alternative to budget Android phones, but not an iPhone threat and the Glyph lighting is mostly a party trick.
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Why it's on these shelves
- Gimmick
“with their first phone won I labeled as a bit of a gimmick”
▶ 3:48 - Gimmick
“it never to me felt like more than just a party trick”
▶ 2:38 - Gimmick
“the lighting system is not much more than a party trick”
▶ 6:44 - Actually innovative
“one of the first android phones that doesn't have a chin at the bottom”
▶ 1:53
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