Carl Pei’s company Nothing, which set off with its wireless headset released last year, has finally officially launched its first Android smartphone. Nothing Phone 1 has a very similar design aesthetic to Nothing Ear 1.
The Nothing Phone 1 is by no means a flagship device. But the company has never claimed to be releasing a “flagship killer”. Instead, Nothing chose to offer lower specs in a cool looking chassis.
Nothing Phone 1 is available for sale starting at around US$475. This price puts the device firmly in the mid-range category. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G+ chipset coupled with 8 or 12 GB of RAM and 128 or 256 GB of internal storage. Two 50 MP camera lenses (one main and one ultra wide angle), 16 MP selfie camera, 5G, Wi-Fi 6, 6.55 inch 1080p OLED display and 4,500 mAh battery are the highlights of the device.
As we said, Nothing Phone 1 is not a phone that tries to stand out with these features. Instead, Nothing Phone 1’s transparent back cover with four LED strips is enough to make it unique. White LED strips can be customized to glow differently for calls, notifications and charge status.
Nothing Phone 1 comes out of the box with Android 12. The operating system is a special version of Android called Nothing OS. Nothing OS comes with its own widgets with dot matrix fonts. Nothing promises three years of Android OS updates and four years of security updates for its phone.
Nothing Phone 1 will be released in more than 40 markets, including the UK, Japan, India and countries in Europe. It looks like the device won’t arrive in the US, at least in the near future.
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