Essential space for older Nothing Phones?

sheldon. · 2025-02-25T13:34:48+00:00

Will the Essential Space and Essential Key features from the Nothing Phone (3a) come to the Nothing Phone (2a) and (2)?

o0SGR0o

Samarth97 My thoughts exactly, I expected Nothing More, Nothing Les than Nothing from Nothing (pun(s) Intended) 🤣😂😅😄

CMF1_hacker

NikolajS_ndergaard this has already been accomplished.

Also, it has been possible to roll out a combination of Tasker/Automation tools to facilitate ES on older phones.

I believe that the trick was to employ Tasker to detect key press 220 (IIRC).

ImPrateekB

Hey Everyone,

So as a phone(2) user, I was pretty much excited for Essential Space but unfortunately it seems like its limited to devices with Essential Key at the moment. I was just wondering when the essential space be available on older Nothing devices?

To those who would be commenting “It requires an Essential key button….” its all about the software, developer can easily customize the triggering mechanism and add a gesture support or specific button combo like the Volume up + dwn pressed simultaneously.

Looking forward to hear from the community mods and team.

Vard

We want to know the truth, will this function be on older devices, will there be camera presets, will there be other functions related to artificial intelligence. Is it really impossible to replace the button on the side by double tapping on the lid ?

Samarth97

Vard no essential space for older devices

Nicouschulas

Vard

They said no essentials space, luts are comming and the rest nobody knwos

Vard

There are many ways, they just won’t give it

Vard

Samarth97

Okay, but what are the reasons?

Just like that?

RapidZapper

Vard The UX of Essential Space is based on the new Essential Key which isn’t present on older devices. It was previously announced that it won’t be coming to older devices.

Vard

RapidZapper That’s true, of course, But still, it was made specifically for this button; other companies have functions that are triggered by shaking, double tapping, or pressing.

Samarth97

Vard why would you buy 3a series if you are getting that on cmf phone 1 ? Irrespective of hardware

CMF1_hacker

Vard you can simulate that button press with Tasker and get it run on the CMF1 as an example.

Vard

Samarth97 I agree, when I wrote to support, they told me something like, “there are some details, and so on,”, it seems to me that this is just a marketing ploy, so to speak, and adding these functions is not that difficult.

Vard

CMF1_hacker Exactly, you can do it by shaking, or by tapping on the lid, etc.

CMF1_hacker

Vard I meant that it runs on older devices (like the CMF1) without the button but using software (Tasker/automation tools) that fools the OS into believe that the button has been pressed.

brittok4321

But what’s the point on not even taking any steps to update the user experience.

They made the app drawer look uglier by giving a worst update.

Can’t I use the volume button and the power button at the same time if I don’t have a essential key in my device.

So guys don’t expect this from them ,they don’t want us to experience the feature 😔 😔

Being like this they(nothing) think that they are the worthiest opponent for apple 😒

Pranshu

I am not against Essential Space here, it’s just AI should be for everyone. I never liked the idea that only phones with Essential key are getting AI features, like c’mon seriously, it’s anyways processing on the cloud.

So why not make it auch that even other Phones can benefit from the AI features and not only limit to Phones with Essential key.

What’s the point if it’s not not accessible, and don’t come here saying our chip is old and all, since the processing is done on the cloud, we can make almost lowest end device use AI, no doubt it might be slow in some cases but that doesn’t mean it will not work only.

Seeing how things are now Essential Space features are only available to phones with Essential key. Like seriously?

I am not against Essential Space here keep them one tier higher but what’s the point if AI features can’t be accessible to every Nothing Phones.

I don’t like how other Nothing Phones are treated especially Phone(2) and now this, like c’mon.

Why not try to make AI accessible for everyone instead of having it only for phones with Essential Key.

I would love the team to respond to this because keeping AI features limited to phones with Essential Key is definitely a bad idea.

I hope team responds to this thread, otherwise just a Phone(2) user trying to make legitimate points.

Honey

Helo..

It’s been a while since features like Essential Space, updated widgets, and other UI improvements were introduced in the CMF Phone 2 Pro, Phone (3a), and Phone (3).

But so far, we haven’t seen any of these updates on older models like the Phone (2a), 2a Plus , or even the Phone (2).

As early adopters and loyal Nothing users, we expected at least some of these features to be rolled out through software updates. It feels a bit disappointing that the newer devices are getting all the exclusive features while existing users are left out.

Could someone from the team please clarify if these features are planned for older phones too? Or are they going to remain exclusive to the new models?

Would really appreciate a clear update..

Samarth97

Honey not coming to older devices

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