Carl Pei interacts with the community, the whole company is doing the same and yes, they need to grow bigger and phones like 2a and plus variants help them achieve such a target. But if you want to settle down as a company producing great midrangers ( like how Redmi series used to be) that trajectory is awesome.
But if you intend to sell flagships in the future, it’ll be based off the past flagship users and the people that bought NP2, the company’s current flagship, which is ONLY a year old.
- Camera improvements : little to none after the release. It’s embarrassing to showcase a phone worth 40k+ on release, having a poor camera. Inconsistency has been the greatest Achilles heel. It takes good shots at times, at times- yes. But give it bad lighting, human skin tones, hdr situations - we will get a water colored, exposure blown mess. Same goes for the video, wherein daylight it’s good not great. Anything that’s not an ideal lighting, it’s straight up bad. Portrait mode SUCKS so bad. Same thing with selfie.
- Battery : from 2.6 update, there’s been a huge dip in battery life. From a solid 1~2day battery life to one where we have to charge it twice or more frequently than before. Battery life was something I used to boast about in NP2, it WAS phenomenal.
- Heating : there’s been a difference since 2.6 update and a rise in temperature is something that happened after the update.
- Navigation gestures : IT’S simply not working correctly. Other phones and custom roms don’t have this issue but hiding navigation bar makes swipe to home and recents page harder. I’ve restarted / reset after updates, nope. It’s still finicky and unreliable.
Minor changes to all or any NPs.
- Vibration can be further tuned. It’s forgettable right now. Missed calls while in vibration mode is a thing.
- Material You themed icons aren’t available in NP phones yet. I’ve resorted to 3rd party solutions but if you can implement the black version of icons why not the themed icons as well.
- Icon size, grid sizes & widget sizes. Everything is limited and locked. Guys Apple changed from these restrictions, freaking Apple!!! We android users shouldn’t have to request these features in the first place.
- Launcher update : swiping to the end for clearing all apps? Why? No Google lens integration for quick search.
- Search : there’s no global search features,for searching contacts, apps, files, folders. No fuzzy search implementation. Currently using Sesame search, again 3rd party for normal basic tasks.
- No squiggle animation in media player notification. Native android feature.
- Notification sounds : is there going to be any normal non robotic notification sounds for nothing?
- 3rd party apps integration like Instagram and WhatsApp is meh.
Things that are great.
- Changing font to Sans : thank you. Much needed for legibility / readability than aesthetics. But still keeping NDot in other animations elements. Great.
- New app drawer seems promising. Let us have the ability to Custom arrange folders too.
- Quick settings revamp : huge thanks!
- Performance, smoothness(would appreciate more smoothness)
- Charging speed!
- Display, great. No complaints.
- Timely updates. Community here doesn’t have the patience, but all the updates arrive on time. Super proud of that.
- Speaker sound is good, call quality can be better.
Thanks for the improvements so far.!!
