Nothing Phone 2 - A tragedy

Jerin Jose · 2025-05-08T13:34:06+00:00

Nothing Phone 2 is referred to as flagship phone from Nothing brand. Is nothing all about smooth software experience? Don't a flagship deserve a good camera? Still now the features announced in Nothing OS 3.0 is still in beta. what user would experience from this? Is that what you refer to user experience? What are the other features that Nothing added in its OS which other brands don't have? Added basic features one by one in each update! So if you are bringing essential space to newer models only and not for old models which still have their update life cycles, what experience is nothing provide for so called flagship phone and the users. Doesn't it affect user experience? Is it not possible to remap to any other button? So what kind of loyalty does nothing have for their customers? Instead of liking the feedback.. pls let me know in the reply if you agree!

PinoLY

Anonymous1017 The chances of what you said happening are very high. 🤣

Jerin Jose

Flagships won’t sell that much, and if that’s the case, then every flagship from Nothing will be a tragedy. Atleast a proper support and proper features and addressing issues will set their reputation high for their next products. Here the inconsistent cameras for the price asked is too much. And not even addressing or Rectifying it even after 2 years is kind of downside.

VishnuManjeri

Whre is updates…?? Every phone have got.. Updates why nothing team not supporting phone 2

PinoLY

VishnuManjeri Last updated May 2025, next updated July 2025.

CMF1_hacker

RavishKumar nah mate, I can’t imagine that more than 20% of the purchasers of the NP3 will own a NP2.

o0SGR0o

CMF1_hacker Mee too I’m a NP2 owner and Don’t think (making the same mistake) at all shelling sweet-sweet, hard earned cha-ching just to be (again) a guinea pup, whine about unsolved issues and beg for features that some of them should be there in the first place, I’ve had enough for one ride…

PinoLY

CMF1_hacker I’m sure there will be many “new” buyers of N Phone 3, but I doubt that owners of NP1 and NP2, with the experience gained over the years, will buy N Phone 3.

Anonymous1017

PinoLY Definitely NOT, until you’ve free cash leftover or you’re that rich that spending thousands of bucks won’t make any difference.

Anonymous717

phone 3 is more tragedy now, better to have phone 2.

Jerin Jose

I am not sure, whether nothing listens to the community. Carl pei is very active in X. They seek community support for everything. They released Nothing Phone 3 which will sell less in numbers and will be in the same list as Nothing Phone 2 without proper improvement and supports and after 1 major update.

@adbo What are the most asked community requests?

Fix inconsistent camera
Fix battery drain issues
Proper updates (Proper not only means consistent updates should also have improvements). Today Nothing released 3.2 update with only one feature hotspot manager, for which they made a major jump from 3.0 to 3.2. Is this how they maintain software version?

All the requests are not addressed yet. Cmf watch is half baked without features. Even the basic features are provided as bimonthly update for phones. Before asking for a premium price, they should set their foundation strong and unique from others.

adbo

Jerin Jose All the requests are not addressed yet

The first two points were already addressed in my Q4 2024 digest, and we already know a camera update, which will also support LUTs, is being worked on as per my Q1 2025 digest too. If you’re still experiencing issues, these should be raised directly with the support team, as this will help them build a picture of how many users are affected.

Anonymous1017

Jerin Jose I couldn’t agree more. Indeed Phone 2 is a first tragedy. Now they have made the biggest tragedy, Phone 3.

I’d raised multiple support request when the device was in warranty, but an generic step was always advised, reset to factory defaults once. What the heck?

How can a camera delay, draining battery issue fixed by a reset?

Just for ads free and bit secure than competitor, I’ll support Nothing, else big NO.

CMF1_hacker

Jerin Jose A couple of points:

The cameras in the NP3 are stellar. I also own a CMF1 and about 4 months ago (second NOS 3.0 update after beta) the camera quality got much better. Like I was stunned at the unoptimised stuff send out by NOTHING as GCam was performing much better in expert/manual mode. After the update it was the same. (perhaps it was simply GCam rebadged.) On the NP3, I can get stellar shots with EXPERT mode on the default camera app, thus, NOTHING is commuting resources.
I’m not sold on these supposed battery drain issues. Tons of complaints. No one ever posts any analysis of the Apps leading to drain (freeware apps do that). Again, on the CMF1 the updates have been flawless and never lead to battery drain but I run only mainstream apps and track app-specific usage with AccuBatteryPro. Blaming it on an update without any supporting evidence when it’s likely a poor apps is simply lame. Show me the data of where the battery drain comes from rather than complain.
I only want to here of a problem with a solution otherwise it’s simply a complaint. (That’s what I tell all my students. Any idiot can identify a problem, provide a solution and then it’s enacted posthaste!!!!!)

Jerin Jose

adbo We are not against Nothing, but the approach they had initially and now is not the same. Within 2 years they should have improved a lot on their devices lineup. Because the lineup had only 5 devices. If they fail to do that, then the trust on them would be a big question mark for their upcoming products. We have already provided feedback through the system and as you aware that every feedback is spread on all social media. Still if they want proof to consider the feedback.

Genuine concern is, in the software perspective, lot of basic features have been missed and added in the updates. We welcome, but the users who trusted and bought Nothing products is let down by the brand. Kind of situation where the product is left half baked. Atleast they should support their old devices with proper improvements or provide longer support until they stabilize.

All the issues are not addressed yet.. in the sense, whether nothing is not aware or they aware and not avle to fix that?

The third point.. even I am a software developer and we never had these kind of software versioning from 3.0 to 3.2 for a single feature.

Gentleman

Strange behaviour from nothing when concerned to phone 2. Reputable brands push exclusive features to flagships but here it seems phone 2 was just a side project that’s been intentionally left out of features that are available on mid and entry level products.

Jerin Jose

CMF1_hacker Are you from Nothing?

Are you going to provide solution?

CMF1_hacker

Jerin Jose nah, I’m already employed by two universities, I have enough on my plate and do not work for NOTHING.

Irfansheikh

@Jerin Jose bro you have nailed it and totally agreed with the points you have mentioned. I am also a Phone 2 user bought it for 50k keeping in mind nothing and carl has bigger vision. But I was totally wrong, they are struggling to provide basic features which a 15k-20k phones already have. Almost a year they have promised NOS 3.0 features would come but still there is no clarity on how company is fooling us in the name of Software experience. This guy @adbo he has said same things previously in Q4 2024 digest and still giving same excuses that team is working. For these only we have chosen you to address our issues in these kind of way.

Nothing is a liar and visionless company

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