I have the Nothing Phone (3a) for two weeks now and here are my requests.
I got the phone for pure Android experience and that’s what I got. The phone is really great. However, I expect more customization. Here are some ideas that actually IMO would matter in contrast to people asking for native music player, native other apps. I mean apps really don’t matter there are dozens of apps available all for free. Let’s look for more System UI things. Here is my list;
1- Back gesture icon. The dotted back icon is absolutely acceptable and cool. What matters is the visibility. Google Pixel has a circular background under the back icon which makes the icon visible. On the contrary NothingOS back gesture doesn’t have any background so its hard to see the icon sometimes and, its not rare. I see the color of the gesture changes according to the screen content but its not enough. It would be awesome if we can set a circular background to it. It can optional to switch it on or off.
2- Lock screen clock font color is always white. I mean if you set a bright wallpaper the clock is basically invisible. I have seen some leaks about NothingOS 4 that brings some customization to this setting actually which allows us to change the font color to whatever we like so I hope it really comes up.
3- Screen timeout is not distinctive. When I use the phone at night reading some stuff I can’t realize if the phone got into screen timeout fade in phase. Normally phones do lower the brightness before getting locked in but if the phone brightness is at the lowest its almost indistinguishable and the phone gets locked without realizing it.
4- We don’t have enough fonts. I have seen that even the Inter font came later on. I don’t say Inter is bad looking but its better to have more options. I mean Sans fonts are awesome and it would be better if we had at least 20 pre-installed fonts on the device. I don’t ask for community edition fonts it might be overkill for nothing’s strategy right now but yeah you got the point.
I guess that’s it so far. What you guys think?
