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" Nothing OS 2.0 Your stamp on Nothing " Seems not much more than a custom android for me. Do we really need a new android phone that will probably have a very

" Nothing OS 2.0 Your stamp on Nothing " Seems not much more than a custom android for me. Do we really need a new android phone that will probably have a very short shelf life and then be abandoned? I scanned the page but couldn't find a single appealing feature. Is there any? Worst: the differences between nothing phone 1 and 2 include things like: "10 new ringtones and notification sounds"; but that is just content! Ok, the chipset is different, but listing something trivial like content, smells like a very locked down device for me.

cubefox 3y ago
The LEDs in the back can act as progress bars for various things.
- marcodiego 3y ago
  My Galaxy Note 2 has a RGB led which is accessible through /sys . It may sound like the guy who compared dropbox to a self hosted ftp, but It is possible to write scripts using termux to make it react according to any event you can imagine! Mine, out of the box, informs me if it is connected to cell network, low battery and missed calls or messages.
  - 0ct4via 3y ago
    That's on the front of the screen, though -- so provides a useful notification LED when your display is off. What the Nothing's progress bar requires is for you to put your phone screen down which is very different.
- ktm5j 3y ago
  Is that really useful considering they're on the back of the phone? I mean, maybe if something's taking so long you're going to put it down while waiting.. but otherwise I don't want to turn my phone around to see it. Cute, but seems rather gimmicky.
  - tredre3 3y ago
    I don't think it's terribly useful as an indicator of software progress. Like you say, it would be simpler to keep the screen partially on (it's OLED). But I guess it could be used for notifications or for more hardware-y things like show your daily steps count (old fitbit style) or battery level (remember when motorola batteries had those super cool led bar graphs on the back in the 90s?).
    - ktm5j 3y ago
      Good points! The possibility for notifications does sound neat.
      - constantcrying 3y ago
        Hardly innovative though. My Android has an LED at the top which signifies notifications, even with different colors, even my old Android had that... If you need continous data it might be more useful, but I can't think of a usecase where it is more than a gimmick
        RockRobotRock 3y ago
        It's annoyingly hard to get fine grain control over which app uses the LED and what color the app uses.

cubefox 3y ago

The LEDs in the back can act as progress bars for various things.

marcodiego 3y ago
My Galaxy Note 2 has a RGB led which is accessible through /sys . It may sound like the guy who compared dropbox to a self hosted ftp, but It is possible to write scripts using termux to make it react according to any event you can imagine! Mine, out of the box, informs me if it is connected to cell network, low battery and missed calls or messages.
- 0ct4via 3y ago
  That's on the front of the screen, though -- so provides a useful notification LED when your display is off. What the Nothing's progress bar requires is for you to put your phone screen down which is very different.
ktm5j 3y ago
Is that really useful considering they're on the back of the phone? I mean, maybe if something's taking so long you're going to put it down while waiting.. but otherwise I don't want to turn my phone around to see it. Cute, but seems rather gimmicky.
- tredre3 3y ago
  I don't think it's terribly useful as an indicator of software progress. Like you say, it would be simpler to keep the screen partially on (it's OLED). But I guess it could be used for notifications or for more hardware-y things like show your daily steps count (old fitbit style) or battery level (remember when motorola batteries had those super cool led bar graphs on the back in the 90s?).
  - ktm5j 3y ago
    Good points! The possibility for notifications does sound neat.
    - constantcrying 3y ago
      Hardly innovative though. My Android has an LED at the top which signifies notifications, even with different colors, even my old Android had that... If you need continous data it might be more useful, but I can't think of a usecase where it is more than a gimmick
      - RockRobotRock 3y ago
        It's annoyingly hard to get fine grain control over which app uses the LED and what color the app uses.