PardhanSingh Thank God someone pointed this out!
You’re right. Nothing OS really lacks on features which are available on all other brands, like spatial audio. I’ve put so many mails for suggestions and I don’t think they’re even being considered.
About the cameras, not worth ₹50000 I paid. HDR processing is unreliable and low light performance is inconsistent too.
There’s no way this phone can compete with 12R which is of the same price. 12R offers:
Spatial Audio (big deal)
Customisation (like AOD styles, specific icon renaming, status bar customisation)
8 Gen 2
Super fast charging
5500 mAh battery
HDR on Netflix
Proper gaming mode
Dolby Atmos
Smart cutout
Alert slider
Video portrait
1.5K display
Hotspot manager
Smart erase
Lock screen gestures
Aqua touch
IR Blaster
Network access management (can disable specific app’s access to WiFi or mobile data or both)
over the Nothing Phone (2) in 2024 at the same price.
I would trade in the Glyphs (which I do use frequently) in a heartbeat for something more useful like smart cutout, and definitely for spatial audio.
I like the Glyph Interface and the quick settings widgets of this OS, but this excitement weared off long back.
Also their customer service is bad. I raise an issue and the agent on the other side doesn’t seem to understand what issue I’ve raised and is telling me to perform actions which either I’ve already done or have no relation to this
One major problem I raised is about mobile network unnecessarily consuming the most battery, more than the screen and more than any app. The response I get is to check what’s draining my battery when that is exactly how I found out that mobile network is draining battery.
Genuinely considering selling this phone now and save a bit more for 12R if it’s camera software is better.
Phone already lacked haptic integration and now you don’t feel the haptic feedback while opening the recents screen. Bugs don’t get fixed! Even the issue of the lower part of the screen being unresponsive hasn’t been fixed.
Can’t recommend this brand to anyone tbh. Really had an expectation considering Carl Pei did well in OnePlus and with Phone (1). He should have just stayed in OnePlus in my opinion. That way OnePlus wouldn’t have had Color OS and we would still have an all rounder brand. (Though this is not a part of this conversation, just wanted to state my opinion.)
