Bruh. This is truly surprising. I feel like for a phone like this, it must be like 90% of the target market that would hate this? Seems like an unimaginably bad business decision. Of course, if FB gave them enough money, then this is kinda like taking a bribe to stop competing.
They are pivoting to a new customer base, people who are vaguely aware privacy is a concern but aren’t capable of figuring out nothing phones are a scam.
FUCK THAT
Nothing could have been Something.
So it is oficially a shitphone.
This is a major bummer. I was kinda rooting for them to be the OEM that GOS would be working with.
LMAO, lol even. Nothing 3 had shit hardware for the price, I was hoping it wouldn’t be them.
Oh? TIL. I guess if they’ve ruled out fairphone and nothing is as bad as you say, maybe it’s a larger player. Can’t think of many other small ones.
Moto seems like a contender. Or one of the Chinese players like Oneplus or Xiaomi, they are also looking for an edge over the market.
Personally I think it’ll be one of the bigger Chinese OEMs. Their phones have gotten a lot better recently, and security is pretty much the only thing they’re lacking. A move like this would perfectly fit some of their strategies.
We’ll see what happens. I’m enjoying analyzing the market to speculate which company it may be.
Before reading this, it would have never occurred to me that anyone even considered this possibility. And thank God it’s not happening. Their phones are abysmal dogshit.
Wow they’ve fallen hard in the last 24 hours
i knew they was fake as shit bro
Disappointing.
I bought one of their phones nearly a year ago. The UI was… Not great, IMO, but I was able to re-skin it. The SD card slot was the biggest reason for me. Well, now I know taht my next phone is going to be a Pixel with Graphene installed.
Yes, come over to the dark side. I haven’t had any issues so far, except for the whiplash it is to go from YouTube I scrolled for hours every day to using NewPipe which takes two seconds to load a new video. It has made me very mindful of what I want to watch because from searching to watching I need to wait like 10 seconds.
Haven’t dipped my toes into banking apps though. Thats a frontier I’ll deal with when I get to it.
Haven’t tried NewPipe yet. I currently use YouTube for specific videos, and I’m usually operating it from a private tab in my browser through a VPN, rather than the app. (So far I’m not getting served ads that way, although sometimes I have to skip to different countries to get around sign-in nags.)
Banking apps are the one thing that worries me. My prior bank didn’t allow rooted phones to be used for online banking; I haven’t made an attempt with my current phone. Given that I now live in a… Rather remote part of the country, access to online banking is fairly important.
Would a website know if you’re using a rooted phone? I don’t think so. Banking apps are different, they might have access to device details but I thought browsers were device agnostic.
The problem is that the website doesn’t allow some of the critical features that the app allows, such as depositing checks. IIRC there are a few things that I was trying to do–link accounts for payments, I think?–where I had to use the banking app.
It is really worrying how a traditionally lethargic service, banking, is also moving to non-privacy respecting methods. I thought we’d be able to fix this internet panopticon shitshow before banks moved fully to apps.
how much do these places pay to make their apps into terminal cancer that cant be excised.
I thought nothing was going to be the OG oneplus, bringing flagship killers at decent prices. Not the case, I got the first ear ones, had heaps of issues, no help from support and they stopped updating them. Years go by, looking for a watch, try the CMF watch by nothing, I’ve had nothing but connection issues and bugs and a dislike for the weird lack of customisation (can’t make a timer widget unless its one of the set times they choose? Why??) It’s put me off ever getting a phone by nothing.
Not at all surprising for anyone who followed this company for a while. They’ve pretty much been all marketing. The phones are far from what they are advertised to be. Hell, it’d be great if they at least worked properly.
Nothing good will come of this.
Something
ah too bad… I got one for me and one for my wife earlier this year, we liked them… but these would be our last based on this crap
Man, Nothing really fell off . And dœs 3a Lite need to exist like at all ⁉️
