The Nothing Phone 3 is the company’s best phone by a wide margin, but is that enough?
  • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    6 days ago

    At $799, the Nothing Phone 3 is competing with devices like the Pixel 9 and OnePlus 13, both of which have it beat in the camera department, and the OnePlus phone is faster.

    Similar price to a OnePlus, with worse performance…what is the point of this guy’s new company again?

    • Trey A@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      Software. Everyone gets hung up on the hardware aesthetic and all, especially with this new phone’s more… “questionable” design compared to the last ones, which were debatably more “cool.” Nothing’s supposed specialty is the software side, which goes beyond just a simple minimal monochrome skin or some fancy text.

      According to most my friends with Nothing phones, it’s all the little details and refinements… but yeah, I’d still buy a Phone (2) or 3a before this since it’s otherwise an underpowered flagship. This formula’s great when undercutting the competition price-wise, but this phone just feels like a substantial price bump SOLELY for a better processor… and still not the best one.

    • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      Nothing’s original phones and it’s sub brand CMF was not focused on US market at all and could only be bought via developer programmer there. It was more geared towards India and the prices matched the specifications there.

      IIRC, Nothing’s original phones were made in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu and it’s previous top tier phone was less than half this price here in India. But with this one, they jumped the gun and made a harrowing decision.

      They still have a good array of products in form of Cmf phones (I was close to buying one until I saw it lacked a 3.5mm jack) and earbuds for lower end of the market but they really are being over optimistic here.

    • Waffle@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Ooof, that’s all I needed to see. I was considering a nothing phone at some point but this ensures that I will not buy their products.

  • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    Still running and loving my nothing phone 2 but not going to upgrade to this. they missed the feature set and price point I was looking for. Probably going to go pixel and GrapheneOS next

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    The writers and editors had every opportunity to do journalism but could not stop themselves from grabbing the cheapest turn of phrase available and make it the headline, huh?

  • TarantulaFudge@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    6 days ago

    Nothing phones suck. No spare parts available to buy and support sucks. I purchased a nothing phone and my camera cracked, that’s when you realize the device cannot be serviced locally AT ALL. You will have to ship off the device OUT OF THE COUNTRY waiting months. I wanted to replace the camera myself but you just can’t. I just gave up and bought a SOMETHING phone.

    On top of that the features were gimmicky at best and poorly implemented. API for extra lights and stuff is severely lacking. I wasted a lot of time trying to customize this thing but it’s not possible. Just a bunch of useless presets.

    Now I’m stuck on this stupid Motorola now. It’s okay but can’t set a folder for wallpapers and there’s no way to replace the wallpaper app. My next phone is going to be graphene based.

    • aquacat@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I am not defending Nothing in any way, but they do have easly unlockable bootloader at least, and not like most other phones where yoi need to go to their webaite for unlock code, or you can’t do it at all.

      Also apperently their headphone and earphones are good, but can’t confirm first hand.