Smartphone Review India – In India, the Nothing Phone (1) starts at a price of Rs 32,999 and goes up to Rs 38,999 for the 12GB RAM and 256GB storage model. The 12GB RAM variant is the one I’ve been using for the past week.
By Sneha Saha: It’s impossible for anyone to stick with a diet plan without a cheat meal every now and then. You need such breathing holes sometimes to break the monotony and keep going. Nothing Phone (1) is such a breeder in the smartphone industry, as founder Carl Pei claims. And after using the phone for almost a week, I completely agree with Pei.
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Much of this is due to the design. The unique design with 900 LED lights built into the back panel of the phone is one of the main highlights of the Nothing Phone (1). But that doesn’t mean the smartphone is all about looks. Just like the company’s first product, the Ear (1), the Nothing Phone (1) offers much more than the tasteful design.
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The Nothing Phone (1), in my opinion, is a good mix of style and performance. Although the design is the company’s main focus, it is great to see that the phone (1) does not compromise on other aspects. There is some room for improvement, inevitably and understandably, but at its price point I think the phone (1) should be a compelling option for Indian phone users.
In India, the Nothing Phone (1) starts at a price of Rs 32,999 and goes up to Rs 38,999 for the 12GB RAM and 256GB storage model. The 12GB RAM variant is the one I’ve been using for the past week. Nothing Phone (1) Reviews: Design and build quality
Nothing Phone (1), as you can see in the pictures, does not look like your ordinary smartphone. The phone is available in two colors: black and white. I prefer the black one. Although for this review I have mostly used the white variant. This is also the “hero” variant of the nothing and this is why you must have seen most of the white phone (1) images in the promo material so far.
The Nothing Phone (1) contains 900 LED lights inside the rear panel, which light up when a new message arrives – whether it’s a call, an email, a message or even notifications from apps like Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. You can turn the lights on or off as and when you want. Nothing also offers 10 glyph patterns to choose from, which can help users set custom messages or custom LED responses with special ringtones.
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This is quite detailed and useful. Just to give an example: you can set 5 different ringtones with 5 different glyph patterns for 5 different contacts. What this means is that as soon as you receive a call, you know which of your contacts is calling.
The lights also alert you to charging status and when you’re chatting with Google Assistant, so you don’t have to turn the screen every time. All these options can be disabled or enabled from the settings menu.
The LEDs also help take better pictures in limited lighting, which I’ll talk about in the camera section.
Nothing phone (1) feels quite sturdy thanks to the aluminum frames on the sides. The fit and finish is top notch and similar to the iPhone 13 frame. There is Gorilla Glass 5 on the front and back, which also adds to the stability. On the rear panel, the phone has two cameras, with round lenses that look quite similar to the module on the iPhone 12. On the front, there is a hole that consists of a single camera. There are thin bezels around the screen. It is worth mentioning that unlike other Android phones, the phone (1) offers uniform bezels on all sides – including the chin, which we have only seen on iPhones so far.
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The phone (1) is a wide phone: again, a similarity it shares with iPhones. It’s not as slim as most Android phones, and that might give pause to people with smaller hands. In another way, the weight of the nothing phone (1) is well balanced. It weighs 193.5 grams, but it doesn’t feel that heavy. Nothing Phone (1) Reviews: Show
The Nothing Phone (1) offers a 6.55-inch OLED screen, which is bright enough in an indoor situation but not so much outdoors. The phone offers 1200 nits of peak brightness, but the key word here is peak. Because in the real world, I found that the “peak” was not enough when the phone was used outside in bright sunlight.
Overall, I feel that the display is an area that could have been better on the phone (1). I’ve watched a lot of videos about it in the last few days, and I’ve always wanted for a little more brightness. Watching videos on YouTube, Ranveer vs Wild with Bear Grylls on Netflix and one Insta reel after another, I found the images and colors a bit dull even with the brightness on maximum.
Of course, in use cases where screen colors and sharpness aren’t that important, the phone (1) works well. So it’s not like you won’t have fun scrolling through your Insta feed on this phone. It’s just that while playing games, or while watching high definition content on it, you won’t be wowed. Nothing Phone (1) Review: Camera
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When I received the Nothing Phone (1) for review, it was running an older software version, and as I said in First Impressions too, the camera needed tweaking. The Nothing Phone (1) recently received its latest update and boy, that improved the camera performance significantly.
But first, a key question: why only two rear cameras? Nothing says that it wants to focus on better performance and not just a number. Carl Pei, the Nothing founder, says it’s better to have two good cameras instead of one good and three bad.
The specs first: Nothing Phone (1) has a 50-megapixel camera with Sony IMX766 sensor and a 50-megapixel ultrawide camera with Samsung JN1 sensor. On the front is a 16-megapixel camera.
Overall, I found the camera performance of the phone (1) to be better than average. The primary shooter takes sharp pictures with a good amount of detail and with colors that are close to what you see. I like that the cameras do not enhance the colors much. And yet they have a fidelity and vibrancy that make the images extremely Insta-worthy.
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For example, if you look at the photo of the orange flower in the camera example below, the edges of the petals look well detailed.
Another example: if you look closely at the photo of the green tube, you will notice that the color is correct and that each crack is clearly visible. This is the kind of detail that the phone (1) captures in good lighting.
Even with limited lighting, the performance is quite good. Here, image quality is also improved when the camera is used in Glyph mode. The camera app offers three options to enhance pictures clicked in low light: flash, studio light mode and glyph mode. I personally loved the Glyph mode, because it offers soft light that acts more like a fill light and not a flash. This improves the overall photo quality, especially for close-ups.
The ultra wide angle shots also look pretty good with accurate colors. But pictures clicked with this camera lack the kind of details that the main camera captures. The ultra-wide camera also doubles as a macro shooter, but I find it a bit fiddly to use this mode as the phone struggles to focus properly. The result is that when you shoot in macro mode with phone (1), you’re likely to get a lot of blurry photos.
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The portrait mode does a good job though. In the camera samples you can see how beautifully it has blurred the background.
The front camera also does a good job, in my opinion, and the good thing is that it doesn’t make your face look unnaturally white. The same applies to front pictures. But if you want your photos to be lively and edited, the phone (1) provides the option in the gallery. There are options to improve the overall image quality, pop the colors and make it black and white. Nothing phone (1) review: performance and software
Nothing Phone (1) is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 778+ SoC coupled with up to 12 GB RAM and 256 GB internal storage without support for expandable storage. During a recent meeting with the Nothing India team, one of the company’s executives explained that they did not choose an SD 800 chip due to cost concerns. The company believes that the SD778+ offers better performance at a relatively lower price.
When using it, I find the Snapdragon 778+ SoC offers decent performance but isn’t outstanding. I have