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No OS/Company is perfect, my experience with:

Samsung A30s (OneUI) - too much bloatware in the UI. The RAM management is crap and its a pain to use it as a daily driver cause duh, nothing uninstalls! Smasnug Pay for no reason, Smasnug health, Smasnug Max(what in the world is this) and more BS!

Redmi Note 10 Pro Max (MIUI) - My phone is dead because of a single update. It was a disaster because I wasn’t alone. Plus the ads in the UI along with the bloatware.

iPhone 13 (IOS) - No multitasking, bad for audiophiles(no Hi-Res along with a good equaliser), No AOD, very poor customisation plus everything on the screen feels very crowded(my opinion)!

Phone 2 (NOS) - bad RAM management, terrible battery after most of the updates, still lacks feature it should have had from the start.

I don’t blame though, the battery was terrible everywhere (except iPhone or so I thought but turns out, the idle drain was off charts because the numbers barely moved infront of me) but not as bad as NOS! There is no bloatware too. NOS just needs some work, lets see what 3.0 puts on the table!

    M1st try NP2a the battery life is great and RAM managment too.

    But no UI is perfect pixel phones has a lot bugs too becouse a lot of updates.

        mNothing the point is that replacing the official custom device’s operating system should not be a requirement to use it properly.

            vovan-v I know its great cause my friend owns it! I am happy with my Phone (2) and my opinion was based on the facts people complain about so it would be neutral, but if you ask me. NOS is the best stock ROM i’ve ever used!

            @RavishKumar exactly, The UI got decent after 2.5.0 but it arrived with a cost! Last A13 update was Phone (2)'s peak, but people still had problems back then!

              Malix since you are a software engineer I have a question for you. I play Efootball2024. It was running perfectly well without any heating at all at highest settings. After 2.5, 2.6 updates it heats up quickly and starts dropping frames. While other games like COD Mobile run perfectly. What could be the reason? I have reset the device multiple times but still no solution.

                  MadOne every game is different because they made on different engine (unity/unreal.etc) . And you face heating issue since the latest update that’s mean it’s os problem that is not optimized for that game Or games that made on particular engine

                    vovan-v Hi ! I have a Pixel 6a and this is true …Not counting the rather disappointing quality of materials and workmanship - the display stopped working from the slightest drop and that too in a case…

                    So far NP2a, I really like it.

                      Malix May be you are not used to it. Your points are correct but I knew what I was paying for and pretty happy with it. Ever growing electronics world you can’t expect much updates on any product of what it was from day 1. I love XDA in that matter and devs keeping older devices alive.

                        20 days later

                        I bought the phone 1 because I thought it would be the cheapest nearest experience to a Pixel phone, clean software and slick UI performance, that was far from being true, with android 12, the experience was ok, not the smoothest experience, or something snappy, as many review videos claimed. The real issue came with the update, android 13, the latest stable release was so much better, smoother and greater experience, but, with the android 14 update, the experience is really crap. Laggy and choppy animations, really ruin the experience significantly. I do not personally care about gaming, didn’t purchase this phone for that, I just don’t want to see any stutter animation in not really complex tasks, like going from social media apps like tiktok or Instagram to the home. I don’t think that’s something impossible, due to the fact that custom roms achieve that, like pixelOS or lineageOS for example, being those ones that I used myself for a while. A bit of deception is what really express nothing OS for me.

                        All Nothing products have some kind of problems, I guess it’s due to them having so much on the table they couldn’t eat kind of situation. Nothing is quite young and ambitious but it has a small team,resources and budget compared to their competitors.

                        For now anyone who’s gonna buy their products has to lower thier expectations on their services.

                        But I do have a bit of confidence in them that they’ll eventually improve and scale up. Then they’ll definitely be able to provide robust products.

                          4 months later

                          • hsrizvi

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                            Still can’t create passkeys via bitwarden, but I can use already stored passkeys in bitwarden. Had to turn on the accessibility button for it to work.

                            Sharath_0-8 That’s cool and all, but instead of creating pointless apps like gallery they should really get functionality up and running first, then add those things in. I mean I get it, a lot of people wanted things like a gallery app or whatever else in, but working passkey support is arguably more important as it makes your accounts more secure and easier to access.

                              • _enz

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                                Though I’m using CMF Phone 1, regretting that I bought it. Clean os/No ads but with so many disappointing issues.

                                -No camera optimization, intended forced brightness issue
                                -No OS optimization for games
                                -WiFi performance below average
                                -Charging issues every update
                                -Facebook videos still buggy in landscape mode, status bar switches to gray and white color
                                -Messenger notification sound goes default even set with device sound

                                • YouTube scrolling and in comments scrolling laggy
                                  -Keyboard landscape fullscreen not implemented
                                  -Passkeys hit or miss
                                  -Dark mode notifications in lockscreen even in Light Mode
                                  -Homescreen dark spots in status bar
                                  -No real AOD

                                If anyone is reading this and wondering, the phone 2a fingerprint reader is excellent. I’ve had it a month, and I’m not joking, I’ve never had it struggle to read my fingerprint, not even once.