Creating a flagship is a dream for every company. Making it a good flagship remains a dream for some.
Unless they improve. So what went wrong.
Let’s look at the competition starting from Oneplus 13, Xiaomi 15, Vivo X200, Samsung S25, iPhone 16, Oppo Find series. So, what’s missing from Nothing Phone compared to these phones. Let’s dive in:
- Not value for money. Everytime a flagship phone comes out with a hefty price tag it’s mostly justified by the quality of the hardware, software, their niche skill (photography, video graphy, gaming etc), looks, additional features, brand name.
- For 80k we get USB 2.0 Instead of 3.2 like in the OP 13.
- We get an optical fingerprint scanner instead of Ultrasonic. Placed in the bottom half of the phone as well.
- No QHD screen. Available in OP 13 (it is mentioned because it costs significantly lower than NP3.)
- An LTPS screen instead of LTPO screen. Won’t turn below refresh rate of 30.
- No Gorilla Glass victus. Some random xiaomi midrange phone had it.
- Not a flagship latest and greatest chipset. Even iqoo 13 has it.
- All that price and no charger in the box for added jokes.
- An eye sore of an ugly design. Remember you are paying 800USD or 80k for that ugly design. Of course you’ll stand out for being weird.
- Removed glyphs.
- Gimmick useless features through dot matrix instead of some useful features added to the phone. Games in that dot matrix? Dude what?
- Nitpicks - software. Other OS’s have reached the next level of whatever Nothing is “cooking”.
So, for a phone that doesn’t do anything special, what do we call it - Nothing.
I hated typing all this as I’m a NP2 user since it’s release who loves using it but will switch to some other company next.
NP3 did have alot of potential. This company should learn from its mistakes. And start listening to the community. Actually listen.