Q2 2025 Community Board Observer digest

adbo

I recently attended Nothing’s Q2 2025 board meeting as your Community Board Observer. If you missed my Q4 2024 or Q1 2025 digests, do check them out to keep up to date! Here’s everything I discussed with the board for Q2:

Lots of exciting things have happened at Nothing over the last quarter! Of course, the main highlights being the launch of Phone (3) and Headphone (1), as well as the CMF by Nothing Phone 2 Pro. We recently saw the update to Nothing X which now supports CMF Watch devices too, which I’ve heard great feedback on after some initial teething issues.

The phone and headphone launch event in London and drops around the world proved to be popular events, whether you wanted to make a purchase or just check out the latest devices. I spent the day in the store in Soho, speaking to lots of existing community members and new customers too. Many of you were pleasantly surprised by the bundle that was on offer which is great!

Phone (3) drop in London | Phone (3) drop in Bengaluru (via NothingIndia)

I know lots more of you are wanting to get hands on with Phone (3) and Headphone (1) and experience them for yourself. I’ve asked Nothing to provide a more up to date, clear list of offline retail partners where you can go and see the devices in person.

I’ve noticed the new Community Review program initiative by Akis and Deepanshu is going really well and some of you have been able to receive a device temporarily to try out, make content and write your reviews. The global community review program remains strong too - we’ve seen community members as far as the US involved! As for how to get involved, be active and present across community platforms and social media. Stand out to Nothing and you’ll be noticed.

We of course talked about the new Glyph Matrix, one of the standout features of Phone (3).

Glyph Toys shown during the launch presentation (via Nothing)

I mentioned how some of the first party Glyph Toys that were shown during the launch presentation, such as Spin the Bottle and Rock Paper Scissors, were seen as more fun gimmicks rather than being useful to you; and they don’t really show the full potential of the Glyph Matrix. Luckily, Nothing have released the Glyph Developer Kit without the need for an API key, so we’re already starting to see lots of functional and useful Glyph Toys from our talented community developers; as well as some experimenting too!

Nothing is working on developing a new online platform, where you’ll be able to more easily find and share your community creations such as Glyph Toys, camera presets and audio EQ profiles. In the meantime, click the links to view our threads on these topics and check out ourCo-Creation category for Glyph Toys.

Battery temperature Toy by @Vishwam | Counter Toy by @Daniel

We discussed the Phone (3) tagline “true flagship”, how some users were frustrated by this and how expectations could be better set in advance of future product launches. I also raised concerns about the delay of Phone (3) availability in regions such as Japan. The team are working hard to bring Phone (3) to you - stay tuned!

Next, we talked about the often confusing CMF by Nothing product naming, and how it can be sometimes difficult to choose the best product. The team are working on refining the product range and improving the naming in future generations, as we’re now seeing with CMF Watch 3 Pro. The lack of first-party accessories for CMF Phone 2 Pro was also acknowledged. The team are looking into options for expanding availability of accessories in future devices.

CMF Buds range | CMF Phone accessories

I relayed your frustrations with the previous flagship, Phone (2), being the last device to receive the Nothing OS 3.2 update. The team will work on a new rollout plan for all current devices.

And lastly, I discussed with the Customer Experience manager how some Ear (a) users are experiencing unusual battery drain problems. As always, if you’re experiencing a hardware issue, please do reach out to the official support team as this is the best way to get these resolved.

Thanks for reading my Q2 digest - I hope it was useful to you! Please let me know what topics you’d like to see me cover in Q3.

See you all again soon <3

Jerin Jose

adbo Need an clarity on whether camera improvements will be made on Phone 2 or not? Any plans? Widget sharing is in beta, all features of gallery mentioned in Nothing OS 3.0 were not relased. Please tell the team to announce features only if they are able to deliver that. In one or 2 months, Nothing OS 4.0 will be released, but still Nothing OS 3.0 features are not delivered.

Thanks for addressing lots of issues in the meeting. Hope it continues

CR24

adbo Really excited for the online platform where we can share our own creations with you and the world! 😄

Ant-e-so-shial

adbo Nothing is working on developing a new online platform, where you’ll be able to more easily find and share your community creations such as Glyph Toys, camera presets and audio EQ profiles.

Great idea. It was a uncomfortable to try and find camera presets and EQ profiles here. Thank you for this.

CMF1_hacker

Ant-e-so-shial Carl (or at least his account) was on this forum late one FRI night and set up a new thread/post (or requested that someone set one) for all EQ settings to be shared.

adbo nice car and concise written and video response. good balance of concerns addressed from a vocal community. can’t do much more at a single board meeting in my experience as there are likely tons of agenda items.

Womey

Thank you for all you do, looking out for the Nothing community. 💜

adbo

Jerin Jose Thanks for your points! I’ve definitely discussed with the team previously about over promising and under delivering features - I think they’ve taken that on board, so hopefully we’ll have clarity over which advertised features are available now vs in the future.

Last I heard regarding Phone (2) camera improvements was that the team were focusing on Phone (3) and (3a) series, implementing new post processing techniques, and if these were successful they may be rolled out to older devices. I think they’re still tweaking these with Phone (3) at the moment. I can try to find out if there are plans to roll it out further.

TechiBoy Camera LUTs are on their way, but let me see what I can find out!

beem

Cant wait for a dedicated platform to share glyph toys, a developer tinkerer’s haven 🤩

Ealesy101

Thanks for taking the time to write this up, Adam.

Sounds like a lot of concerns and wins were shared this time! Thank you, as always, for being our CBO and sharing the thoughts/feelings of the Community.

I am excited for the prospect of a shared area online for all of the Community creations, it shall help a lot of discovery for those who are newer to the Community.

Daniel

Thank you for the meeting and the update, great to have you as our CBO! as a glyph toy developer I’m happy to see a new platform to show dedicated community projects!

Louis ☕️

Thank you again Adam for this great update. You’ve really grown into this role very quickly and it’s great to hear about all the feedback that was shared. Looking forward to some of the future developments too!

TechiBoy

You almost covered everything. I just wanted to ask when Camera presets (LUT) feature coming to older devices such as Phone (1), Phone (2), Phone (2a), Phone (2a) Plus, and CMF Phone 1. Because everyone is waiting for it.

Is it coming with Android 16 or in upcoming Nothing OS 3.2 updates.

mohanadxb360

Absolutely FANTASTIC no other company i ever know has something quite like it listening to the people is the way to gain they’re support ✌️

I’m sticking to nothing after this frrrr🔥🔥

Tatsuya

adbo

We hope the Phone (2) gets a bit more attention, especially as it’s nearing the end of major update support. It’s literally so close to being perfect. The camera software processing and jittery video is the only thing that ruins it honestly

Jerin Jose

adbo Thanks for your immediate response. This is what we expect as a community. There are many repeated posts on the same topic which is beacuse there is no proper response from a person who is in touch with the Nothing team. Once there is clarity on every query, there is no need of repeated posts.

Awaiting your confirmation on further update plans for the older devices!

Jerin Jose

adbo Hi any updates on this? Were you able to collect some information from the team?

Jerin Jose

adbo Hi any further updates on this? Were you able to collect some information from the team?

abhishek_lakhani

Let’s go! 🔥

Can’t wait for more community-developed toys and features for the Glyph Matrix.

Great work! @Vishwam @Daniel 💪

Vishwam

abhishek_lakhani Thank you so much

Vast

adbo Thank you for the update and making sure we are heard! Great things seemingly on the way.

Luis Enrique

adbo Great work 👏, looking forward to the new update rollout plan for Nothing devices 👀

Sticky_PRP 🇩🇪

One thing I’m just curious about is the reason for the difference between the CMF watch Pro 2 and the CMF watch 3 Pro. And what exactly constitutes a difference of €40.