After countless leaks , tease snitcher peeks , and showy preview , the Nothing Phone ( 1 ) has been officially bring out .
At a limited launch event beam out from London , former OnePlus CEO Carl Pei unveiled the first smartphone from his Modern UK venture .
The design of theNothing Phone ( 1)is no surprise at this dot , but it ’s still a striking piece of music of piece of work . It ’s 8.3 mm thickheaded , weighs 193.5 g , and play an aluminium systema skeletale and Gorilla Glass to the front and derriere . Nothing has dependable IP53 certification which , while not flagship standard , is n’t a vulgar mid - range provision .
The rearward panel is semi - transparent , allowing you to take in a glance of some of the phone ’s primal factor and let out the phone ’s classifiable light-emitting diode lights . This so - called Glyph Interface lights up in dissimilar ways for burden , incoming calls , notification , and the like . you could even pair individual contacts to a specific light-headed - up pattern .
Around front there ’s a 6.55 - inch FHD+ OLED showing with a 120Hzrefresh rateand HDR10 + backup , flank by stereo speakers . That concealment is adaptive to a point , roam from 60Hz to 120Hz , but it ’s not the full LTPO handling . It take to a vertex luminance of 1,200 nits , and houses a fingermark sensing element .
It ’s powered by the upper mid - range Snapdragon 778G+ processor , which patronize 5 gravitational constant connectivity , and there ’s a choice of 8 or 12 GB of RAM . Storage comes in 128 GB or 256 GB tang .
As was tipped before of launching , the Nothing Phone ( 1 ) eschews the usual camera bloat for a wide-eyed dual-50MP tv camera band - up . The wide sensor is a Sony IMX766 , which we ’ve seen recently in theOnePlus Nord 2Tand theRealme 9 Pro Plus . The radical - wide is care by the Samsung JN1 , which theOnePlus 10 Prorecently opt for .
The Glyph Interface can be crank up to full to render a pack light for nighttime time close - up subjects . 4 K picture at 30fps or 1080p at 60fps are also supported , ably stick out by both OIS and EIS . You also get a 16MP Sony IMX471 sensor around front for selfies .
Nothing promises 18 hours of economic consumption with every thrill from its 4500mAh battery . While there ’s no courser in the box seat , provide your own 33W battery charger will get you to 50 % great power in 30 moment . More impressively for a twist of this price , there ’s also support for 15W Qi wireless charging and 5W reverse charging .
Nothing OSboasts a unambiguously uninfected visual language , together with impost widgets , fonts , sound and wallpapers . Nothing is also at pains to highlight how well its custom Android OS plays with major third parties , from enabling you to unlock the doors on your Tesla to insure the office on your AirPods – all without the demand for a third - company app .
You also get a guaranteed 3 years of Android updates and 4 years of security spot , which will be release every 2 month .
The Nothing Phone ( 1 ) fix its general release on 21 July 2021 , withprices startingfrom £ 399 for a mannequin with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage . That extend to £ 449 for 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage , and tops out at £ 499 for 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage . It will be available to buy directly from Nothing , as a internet sole on O2 , and from Selfridges and Amazon .
