How good is a Nothing Phone? (sopuli.xyz)

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It's a generic question and the first answer it merits is "It depends." but let me explain myself a bit more.

I'm looking at changing my phone in two or three months and the current phone I have was a bit of a let down. It's a BlackView and I bought it being rugged but the phone comes with a few quirks I can't get rid of.

On Lemmy, Nothing Phone is randomly mentioned. Some talk down on it, others praise it.

I've set a budget for how much I'm willing to spend on my next phone but the store I usually go to has added the brand to their catalogue and one of the models, although a bit more than what I want to spend is something I could consider.

The model in question is the Nothing CMF Phone 1, 8GB RAM, 128 GB storage, 5G network ready.

But how different and better from the average brand is Nothing Phone? What sets them apart?

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[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

So what are my options at that budget? Other worse companies? Idk man

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 21 hours ago

I'm not terribly familiar with phone options, though ya'd figure ads in the menus would be immediately disqualifying. It's not like they're all doing it (yet), so you're not stuck for accepting it. Especially not from a new company.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

Atleast they reverted. There most of the budget phones have all crapware installed, bootloader locked, un-uninstallable system apps which are not at all necessary(the phone i'm currently using is vivo which have some "vivocloud" and "v-appstore" which are not even uninstallable with ADB. But yeah its cheap af).

I belive even samsung has their own proprietary vendor apps that are not uninstallable. I'd preffer a company that once screwed and reverted but now clean with lesser bloat(atleast bloats should be uninstallable entirely) than ones that does have bloat now

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago

Oh it's definitely not just the budget phones.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

I am talking about phones at the given price range so nothing still becomes a good enough option

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