Nothing to see forward to: Within the course of a livestream occasion, Nothing confirmed its plans to starting up the Cell phone (1), which the corporate’s CEO Carl Pei acknowledged will phrase the starting up up of swap for the ‘sleepy’ smartphone market. Little print around the Cell phone (1)’s hardware are serene scant, however we enact know that the Android-powered phone will expend a Qualcomm SoC, and that Nothing wants to purchase on the likes of Apple by constructing an ecosystem of interconnected devices.
Calling the Cell phone (1) “not like one thing else” could doubtless well very successfully be reasonably of stretch, pondering Nothing’s debut into smartphones will doubtless be with a candybar assemble part, operating a personalised Android pores and skin. On the other hand, the corporate does own a diversified, discreet arrangement of hyping up its merchandise, and we’re urged to quiz heaps of clear cloth going into the Cell phone (1)’s obtain.
Although Nothing didn’t even portion a see of what the hardware will turn out taking a see like, or no longer it is safe to lift the see-via stunning of the corporate’s Ear (1) earbuds will more than likely be contemporary right here as successfully. On the tool aspect, nonetheless, Nothing did own a pair of screenshots to portion for its personalized Android pores and skin.
Nothing OS’ work-in-development designs for the dwelling display, widgets, lock display, continually-on expose and recorder app.
How the corporate describes its vision for Android is paying homage to the early days of OnePlus’ Oxygen OS. Nothing says that its Android pores and skin will bring the greatest ingredients of pure Android, distilling it to factual the necessities, and can own bespoke fonts, colours, sounds and graphical ingredients. The corporate also famed that purchase models will more than likely be ready to skills a preview of Nothing OS via a launcher that arrives subsequent month.
In an interview with The Verge, Nothing’s CEO Carl Pei shared how he aims to discontinue a “singular vision” for his merchandise by having the corporate’s tool, marketing and marketing and obtain crew work nearer together.
Pei also remarked on bringing on board Dyson’s broken-down obtain head, Adam Bates, who now serves as Nothing’s obtain director with the tricky job of making the Cell phone (1) stand out from the smartphone crowd.
— Nothing (@nothing) March 23, 2022
Having secured Qualcomm as a partner, Nothing and its crew of over 300 other folks could doubtless well doubtlessly fabricate things lively for the Android market, factual like OnePlus managed to enact reasonably some time wait on.
It remains to be seen whether or no longer the Nothing Cell phone (1) turns into winning this summer and is able to preserve that momentum for future iterations, or if it fizzles out like the Crucial phone, whose branding rights own been got by Nothing closing 300 and sixty five days.
