Yooo, this is amazing! The deaf community can finally experience the custom sound ringtones for contacts/apps/etc, but with light! I really hope the OS on it is great too because this really more inclusive to the differently-abled.
@@kenti.bentii they definitely could, I was just saying that the different light patterns this phone offers allows the deaf community to experience custom light notifications that we usually experience with custom ringtones
I just wanna remind people that Nothing is a startup company. We're witnessing their first steps into a huge market with extreme competition. What they mean by "taking on apple" and such are their future vision so give them a few tries and a little time and then everything will be clear how Nothing will turn out.. keep your expectations at a fair level so you won't be disappointed, nor cricticism will burn em to the ground when they actually deliver :)
What competition? Right now, we only really have two types of phone, and only one of them being the sensible choice. If there was fair competition, windows phones would have succeeded.
Shout out to all of the One Plus owners that felt that ending. I'm certainly interested in this new phone because it is different. Now I just need to know that it is an overall good phone when the reviews start coming out.
I copped the very first 1+ during the invite only stage. I totally felt the jab at the end. I am in the market of looking for a new phone. I don't need the greatest...just looking for the latest.
My first impressions were that it has the general shape and back look of an iPhone, but the front display and selfie camera of a oneplus or something. Interesting design, and I like how it ties into that transparent aesthetic.
“When you look at the light pattern you will be able to see who calling even when the phone is muted” yea because looking at the screen and seeing who is calling is not as good 😂
it's a comfort feature. I'd compare it to why have a smartwatch to see notifications and time, when we already have our phones in our hands all day and we see it all there. Yet we still buy a smartwatch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ edit: and it looks cool and unique, so why not have it?
@@craeeg it'll ruin the fun. But i don't think ugly leds is a good reason to buy this phone. It's unprofessional and unimpressive. Imagine glowing goddamn lights from phone at workplace
What kind of cover are you trying to use to cover that? It's like saying "nice camera design, but I use cover on the phone. Too bad". It doesn't hide it dumbo, even if it does, buy the one which doesn't
Playing the Ringtones in sequence in this video made me think it'd be nice to sync up New Orders Blue Monday as a ringtone and the lights beat out to it, also the sounds that were there gave me cause to think Kraftwerk's Pocket Calculator would also make a good ringtone and led display combination.
I think the music from Tron:Legacy would suit it the best - the phone even looks like it could be a prop in the movie. Now imagine playing Derezzed on it! I currently have an 8-bit version of Derezzed as my ringtone and its great.
We all hope that we atleast get flagship level experience because this is how all phone was started specially one plus. Hope Carl pei will remain in this company. Hope he'll not flew away which I think it will going to happen
@@rhaegartargaryen_ imagine every comments nowadays starts with "imagine" having a reply which contains "imagine" having a reply which contains "imagine" 💀
- Motorola edge 30 comes with same 778G+, 33w wired charger. 6 gb / 128 gb - Rs 28,000. - if you have low light in your office / home, then "Nothing 1" smartphone's back Led lights will be useful. This is something new by Carl Pei, the Co-founder of OnePlus, the flagship killer. 🤔 😀😀
i can't be the only one noticing that the large centered LED with the angled one above it makes out the shape of a simplified apple with a leaf or stalk... the cut on the big LED would make the "apple" shape look like it has a bite taken out of it.
some care that it's *different & distinguishable* , and some like us who work in noisy environments and sometimes dark & quiet, that definitely serves the purpose
That thing is cool as hell. I'd want it to come with a "ringtone editor" app that lets you create custom LED patterns, similar to a video/audio editor where you have a timeline with separate "tracks" for each LED.
These ringtones with light reminds me of The vintage Nokia 3220. A long time wish that's going be implemented in any Android smart phone ever. Glad to see that.
From a design aspect, this is the first Android phone that has impressed me in a long time. Just slapping some different colors on a phone (the 3 examples in the video) just isn't enough anymore. This super clean clear back with all white internals and the creative use of LEDs really speaks to me.
A teardown skin with cutouts for the lights will look sick. I see alor of hate, but i give them props for trying somthing different. Only lg was left making something unique and there no longer around in the smartphonegame. So unles its a slab or a folding phone, there all going to look the same. This is still a slab, but will stand out much more and have ACTUALLY usefully design features
As long as they don't go down the route of possibly causing seizures from the LED's blinking, I am sure they will be good... It's happened before with LED products, just not on phones. :)
@@mugabe2606 He was the co-founder of OnePlus. He wasn't the main guy. Now he is trying to make a new brand which will follow the right path of OnePlus. I think this is a good step and i hope this guy is going to be successful.
I'm an investor and they have made special back cover for it ! You will see the phone once it's available. The phone was created with that in mind and ex Dyson Head of designs made sure it looks great
@@tahermotiwala4656 Probably excellent, but I'm not a camera expert. I'm pleased with reception the phone is getting before its launch even I hope they please the customers that are buying too!
No matter how good the back of phone might be, it will never account for more than 5% towards why you would buy the phone. The software experience on the other hand is incredibly important and will dictate the success of this phone.
This is literally the marketing strategy used for children's toys. It has to have lights and sounds and all of this "cool stuff" that appeals to a kid, and then for real its just cheap plastic and literally nothing new, just another throw away disposable toy. That at least, is what this looks like to me.
@@singular9 This must be aimed at the pre-teen and teen market as it absolutely no interest for me (40-y-o). For those wanting to be different or the Instagram crowd? Saying all that, what matters are the rest of the package and it looks to be aimed in a very touch pricing segment that even OnePlus does not get too involved in now.
@@singular9 dude relax it has stock OS decent cameras flat screen flat edges small bezels pretty sure ip68 Maybe 3 or 5 years of software updates And others It's really good phone
@@singular9 Relax dude this thing is miles ahead of overpriced iPhones with same design from ages. Bringing 10 year old android features in 2022 and charging more. Nothing gonna rock the phone market.🤖🤖
@@liam9196 Samsung and Apple have done shameless copies of each other a long time ago. In the end of the day, the customers care about practical functionality over originality.
It's only so hard to innovate in the smartphone market because you have people like the other two commenters on this post ruining all the possibilities of innvoation for everyone. Every time a company does something different there is always this wave of butt hurt basement dwellers that rise up and bash on it because they can't stand the possibility of change. They can't stand the idea of someone other than apple changing the industry. I want you to be real with yourself and imagine the reaction we would have if apple did this same thing with one of their iphones.
@@liam9196 If that is really all you see in this phone, then I would hate to see what your basement bedroom looks like. Probably a bunch of blank walls with zero design taste. ya know, like an Apple product
I'd like a LED light for notifications on the back of the phone. But to me this looks like an overkill and a bit gimmicky. That's my first impression though, and i might change my mind. Of course I'd like to see the phone up close and personal, see the Android skin, learn the price and the cameras should be respectable. Anyway, a new device means more competition in the phone market which is good. But to me real innovation is foldables not LED lights.
Non-screen indicators is something I miss from old phones. This makes me want to switch to Android... maybe. It looks/feels like what people in the 1980s imagined future phones would look like. I feel like people will want to program the lights to do something more than just flash... like respond to music, indicate a direction to go, etc. Sometimes we can't have our full attention on a phone so having a simple elegant indicator that is easy to interpret just by glancing rather than reading carefully declutters a lot of our visual space.
Digging the Tron aesthetic, it's also nice to see someone actually trying to make these amazing tools we carry in our pockets less banal. I am however, curious/concerned about how much extra drain the LEDs are adding on the battery.
I cant imagine leds, which are already super efficient, will be draining the battery unless you just leave them on all the time. If you just use them for notifications im sure its negligible
I actually think this is a really fair question and one we probably won't get a real answer to until we get our hands on it. First off, we don't know how long the battery is supposed to last from what I can find online, and additionally we won't know how much of that battery was lost to the interface unless Nothing has already tested this exact question, or even worse, if they even used the interface during their testing of battery performance at all. Probable guess: I think this'll take somewhere to 5-10% of your total battery life per charge, depending on how you use your device. Some people might just binge a ton of stuff, keeping their screens on, and relive the Glyph Interface from needing to actually be a notification to the user, others like myself might not use their phone much throughout the day so we'd have a build up of a bunch of notifications from a series of apps, which I think would probably drain your battery closer to 15 maybe even 20% if you're on the extreme end of this. But really we'll just have to wait an see. Also, the numbers given are purely a guess, seeing how other notification LEDs can have an impact on their phone's battery performance and trying to adjust for the number of LEDs and their thematics, so don't come with torches and pitchforks at me
Not gonna lie, they've managed to pack way more functionality into these leds, than I've thought. It's enough for it to be more than just a gimmick. It's nice not to be disappointed for once.
I'd love to see a phone with an led again but not on the back. Surely they realise most people put their phone down with the screen facing up which makes an led on the back useless. Why not put the led on the bottom where the charging point is (I think zenfone did this)? Or in the earpiece speaker?
Nothing just hyped it's product with the Apple brand value. Actually they very well know it's gonna tough to fight with competitors in the real world market. I think nothing phone 1 will be just midranger. It's not going to be extraordinary what we were thinking. Do actually back panel matters for most people nope. So whose gonna waste money just on a different cool looking back panel. Nope it not gonna work for nothing
The back thing looks really cool and all, don't get me wrong, but this looks like the kind of feature you'll be very excited about at first, but completely forget it exists after two weeks. I hope the software experience stands out as much as the back, because that's actually the most important thing on smartphone if you think about it for a second.
Indeed. Especially because I would never, ever out my screen face down. And so if you have your phone the right way up. Lo and behold, there's a screen there. Which can just tell you who's calling. Or how charged your phone is. And the back of the phone doesn't really look that good either. They've hidden away all the good stuff. You can't really see any pcbs, or chips or coils. So it kind of defeats the purpose of a transparent back.
@@fVNzO I'm with you on this(apart from the looks, I think it looks okay). Like the LED thing is cool and all, but I'm not gonna put my phone face down intentionally and OLED screens are a thing and can be always on anyway, and even on like an iPhone 8, you just wiggle your phone and it lights up to give you info. You can use certain light patterns so you can know who's calling you....or you can, you know...look at the actual screen to tell...or assign different ring tones instead? It just seems like a weird and wholly useless focus.
I’m super curious how this hardware could be especially beneficial for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing. The flash notifications on the iPhone are pretty limited, and having this many different LED options could be great with the right software!
@@riccardobrandolini2545 Some people still prefer analog watches which will NOT do such things, and deaf people could also tell who's calling them if the LED would be RGB cause they could set different colors and tones for different people.
Ooooor!!! Deaf people could leave their phone facing up and then they can see who is calling when it rings. Phones already have a perfectly working display that can be used to better display information
My first thought is, can you change the colors of the back lights? But then I was thinking, if not, imagine how dope it would be if they came out with some cases that had strategically placed channels on the back to allow the light to shine through and maybe those channels are tinted to give you a different color. Honestly now I really like this design, like alot
Changing colors will be on next gen probably! Going all out on first gen product is not something companies want to do, also want to be subtle without going to call it a another RGB
Already there are gaming phones with RGB lights and if this would've that RGB's then what makes this standout?? It'll again become an already in market thing 🤷🏻
I really appreciate how chill you are. So many RU-vidrs talk so fast and are practically yelling at the camera. It is so grating. But you're just enjoyable to watch. So well spoken, down to earth and without ego.
I am excited for the potential for customizing notifications for deaf customers, especially for integrating with apps like ring or nest. I will also be interested to see how the lighting impacts photography. Awesome video!
If only there was some better way to communicate visual information to hearing impaired customers than a white LED design on a white phone. Maybe some sort of matrix of RGB LEDs that can light up with different colors to show text or even pictures. Unfortunately, Nothing like that exists yet…
@@TheXGamer969 he did say there will be a couple other colour options, they could even change the colours of the lights eventually or just have ones that are capable of changing colours, thereby increasing it's usefulness and application.
That hint to OnePlus at the end may be more significant than we think. The starter of nothing was a starter of OnePlus so they may just become another flagship maker. But then again nothing isn't owned by a company that also owns 2 different flagship makers soo.
Wow. Love the multiple LED design. The Ringtones with the LED effects look so good. Even the charging effect looks good. Can’t wait to get hands-on with this.
Honestly, one of the features I miss the most from legacy phones are the notification LEDs. It would be impossible to give up my Fold, but I sure wish it had some additional features.
@@roninr8199 same formula of high tier specs for dirt prices will eventually gone to a null point of vaporware if companies cannot differentiate themselves apart from others
Problem with this one I see is that *hopefully* nobody puts their phone down on it's screen without a case as that'd make the screen full of scratches in no time, but a case would also cover the cool back...
When I first saw this phone I wasn't that impressed considering it didn't look as cool as the ear (1) but after seeing the backlight features it has got me interested (only if they release a transparent case)
A bumper style case would work as well, keeps the screen/back raised to rpevent anything hitting it, whilst providing protection around the outside. That way there's nothing impeding the glow from the back.
I like the "teardown" look. It's vaguely technical, but still clean thanks to the use of all whites. And the notification light + back display of battery life is smart and neat.
@@djstyles97 yeah it sucks, they decided they wanted to make more money and the OnePlus fanboys I guess didn't want them to. I think it was him that did a video on OnePlus last year talking about how it's a catch 22 for any company, they can't stay in the niche fanbase and make money.
I'd love to see a feature than makes it so the back lights can change colour and indicate different apps you assign. Twitter could be blue, email could be red, and messages could be white; then if you get multiple notifications at a time they each have a light to shine through.
6:33 Reminds me of One Plus. They started off as the flagship killer and gained a loyal customer base, but with time they started appealing to a broader customer base, to the point where they are indistinguishable from most modern flagships and their pricing.
I think the lights are cool, I also think that Google perfected this back with in nexus lineup. I'd much rather have different colors for different notifications than different patterns. I really do miss that feature. Just my two cents..
One of the things I missed the most going from Nexus to a new phone too. AOD helps. Nothing phone also needs fingerprint scanner on the back. It's far more natural than on the screen.
@@kalliste01 i think the phone1 has the fingerprint in the unlock button because in the first seconds of the video Marques unlock it but there's no icon for the fingerprint on the display like other phones, but who knows, maybe he has disable it.
Razer Phone 2 did this. I had the original and the 2. The 2 was so much more refined. Unfortunately it all stopped there and I went back to OnePlus. I also owned the essential phone ph-1 which I definitely miss.
It looks absolutely amazing, i guess the main thing for me would just be the fact that i'm not a person who ever puts their phone face down. All the notification functions the back LEDs serve is what i use always on display (with phone laying face up) for. It's been beaten into me from the days of easily scratched screens to never put my phone face down on basically any surface other than like my bed. Now days i know it's mostly ok to put your phone face down since the glass is better, but that's a habit i would specifically have to change to get any use out of the LEDs on the back of the phone. 95% of the time i would never see them.
@@1230mkelly I really don't think it would unfortunately. I wouldn't stop using Always On Display. So I'd still always have my phone face up and would never see the LED lights on the back. I kinda wish they figured out a way to have a cool version of the light on the front somehow.
Agreed. I never put my phone face down for the same reason and I also put my phones through a substantial amount of wear and tear so I buy a new phone and a case at the same time. I don’t think I’ve ever had a naked smartphone. Unfortunately that doesn’t leave me with much reason to get this one. The design is dope and caught my eye though. Maybe in time they’ll add more hardware features that will have wider applicability.
To be fair they could create their own cases, that have a transparent back where the light is. Maybe also, so the light can be in the color of the case.
I'm an investor and they have made special back cover for it ! You will see the phone once it's available. The phone was created with that in mind and ex Dyson Head of designs made sure it looks great
The design is really cool, especially those back light. If they put compelling hardware and especially solid set of camera system, they might cut a good amount of customers 👍
Yessir. The design alone is already awesome. If it has a camera and speakers that can compete with iPhone, and the software isn't complete trash, I'd definitely be interested in switching over.
i think the way those 10 ringing tones and the led flash are well incorporated is just awesome . cant wait to find out about the gpu and cpu. thumbs up
I really like the design.. i always wanted an android phone with iphone like body. Take my money.. i ll for sure buy one. I think this is good competition for android world. Price and software will decide its future.
@@zincfence6381 nah man it looks completely different lol. I want like an iphone 12 aesthetics but the software is samsung. I love samsung software it's so convenient and customizable.
Personally speaking, I would prefer to put my phone facing with its screen facing upwards so all the notifications that I want to be reached can be seen clearly and promptly. Such LED bands are nothing than a useless and annoying add-on. The Nothing ear(1) is pretty cool cause you can get a pair of earbuds that has good ANC, sound quality, tiny little latency, and even volume control on the buds. These are the real things that make ear(1) stand out. The transparent part is more of a design signature. But for the phone(1), according to what we can see now, it is more like a narcissistic design from the company that intentionally tries to make a difference but there product managers are out of real idea
People has been talking a lot about its unique design, UNIQUE? Which one? It’s copy cat design from iPhone 12 combined with the design taken from Xiaomi 8 Transparent edition which was released way back in 2019. Plus its backlight notifications is going to drain its battery fast, not to mention the lack of Charger.
