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It’s Just a Really Solid Phone Experience! I had been looking for a new phone on and off for a few years, and really started looking in the past few months since my existing phone was old. So old, that current apps would randomly crash. Not fancy games; no, Google messages, email, YouTube. I had an LG G8X Thinq Dual Screen(I really miss the separate/dual screens) �� It had the same specs as a Galaxy S10. Both the G8X and the S10 came out at the same time in 2019.Why Not Samsung?!Samsung, is outrageously over priced, and is full of bloat apps, and duplicate apps. Some, like KNOX you maybe shouldn’t remove. There has been absolutely no outward innovation from Samsung in over 10 generations. All the phones look the same and all run over $1000. The phone also runs several AI agents, that I am not a fan of. The folding screens are a travesty across the board. 2 or 3 separate screens is the way to go.Why not Apple?Apple’s history of ‘playing games'(the battery limiting fiasco, fighting with app makers, internal planned obsolescence, $%&ty phone repair support without paying a kidney, for AppleCare, which the company continually tries to say ‘does not cover X, Y, Z’. If you didn’t have problems, great! I’ve worked in an Apple care approved repair company, and the number of times we had to turn down customers because AppleCare didn’t cover the perfectly reasonable repair, was bonkers! Then we get to the sky high price for the phone, and the all intrusive Siri AI. “Hard No”Why Nothing?It’s different, and leans toward use, instead of flash! Besides the Glyph features, the phone is really meant to ‘get things done’ In the settings, you have the options to use the normal flashy app icons, or ‘grey scale’ icons. You can also opt to show or hide the app names. Less clutter, so you can focus on ‘that thing you are trying to do’. Yes the Nothing Phone 3 does have AI, as EVERY$$%%@#$THING does these days. Sadly, you can not fully disable or remap the ‘AI’ button. However, with a few minutes of tinkering in the settings, you can mostly disable the ‘Nothing AI’ features. Now the phone works as I really like it, plane and ‘bare bones’. Great Job Nothing!The “Glyph” features are cool, make no mistake. It’s nice to have…it’s kind of a ‘mullet phone'(LOL Sorry). Business up front, and party in the back. LOL Spin the bottle, dice, and the sun clock are neat and great for the odd party. The dice glyph has already settled several decisions with my friends and I, with a quick ‘odds or evens’ decision. LOL.The phone does have wireless charging. The coil is hidden under the decorative back façade. It’s a little wonky and difficult to position on some wireless chargers(especially some portable battery banks with wireless charging), because the coil is shaped to make room for the ‘glyph’ button. But, it does work.Verdict, I’m a big fan of the phone and will likely stay with Nothing if they continue on this track. The camera is much better than the G8X, but I don’t really care about a camera. I take more photos of serial numbers(I work it tech) than Instagram photos. If I can read the serial number, that’s all I need. I’m not a fan of AI and I’m not really a mobile gamer.- No/minimal AI? Check!- Camera that works? Check!- 12/16GB of RAM for multi-tasking? Check!- Wireless Charging? Check!- Clean UI? Check- The speakers are a big improvement over the G8X, still very much ‘phone speakers’, but a nice boost, to movies/videos chilling at home.* I don’t really have anything to say about the CPU(Snapdragon 8s Gen4) Not the Elite. I really haven’t seen a problem not having the flagship proc. As the Nothing CEO said, they focused on a really good phone experience, and that’s what they’ve done. No issue!The only things, I would change are personal nit pick gripes.- Option to disable/remove AI across the board- Reduce text/UI spacing. I like a really compact interface. I want to be able to see as much information on the screen as possible.- Make the wireless charging coil ‘easier’ to position.Great job Nothing!
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