Wow, nothing is a shit name, for one. On the other hand, this being reported on a website that requires tracking consent to view. I want a new Timeline.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025
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Nothing would be a great brand name if they were dedicated to making good phones without any bloatware.
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You were supposed to be the fucking CHOSEN ONE
Don't stake your hopes on anyone or any entity and you will never be disappointed
There are only those companies for whom the incentives to betray you aren't yet high enough. Either the incentives become high enough for the chosen company to betray you, or the incentives become enough for another company with enough money to buy the chosen company and betray you...or bury the chosen company in the hopes that you'll open yourself to being betrayed or exploited by the other company.
Welcome to unfettered/unregulated capitalism aka the natural end result that capitalism pushes society towards.
Nothing already lost me when they put a tiny, useless OLED screen on the back of their flagship and called it innovation. They had something really great with the Glyph lights for two generations, so of course they ditched that technology completely.
Not even Unihertz put Facebook garbage on their new Titan 2 phone. And they also have an OLED on the back. A much bigger one. For a fraction of the price.
Welp, and some people hypothesized Nothing would be the secret manufacturer that GrapheneOS works with. Hope not, I'm not sure what Nothing would get out of it with these kinds of actions.
I still think it’s Motorola.
I'd like that. I've enjoyed being on Motorola for the last few phones. Good, serviceable, middle-of-the-road priced phones and a company that doesn't think so highly of themselves that the majority of the price amounts to a prestige tax. (ahem...Apple and Samsung)
Isn't Motorola's mobile division (with the exception of the PDA hardware acquired by Zebra Technologies) owned by Lenovo full stop?
I would imagine that might lead to issues later down the line for the Graphene team (although I'd love to be proven wrong).
I’m not sure what problems that would lead to. Lenovo is a big part of the reason I think it’s Motorola.
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Ratchet mechanism of enshittification: click
I once had a phone with uninstallable Facebook bullshit and it is more than mildly infuriating. Fuck Nothing, they are dead to me now. This is unforgivable.
Just what the world needed
Oh good, one less phone to consider.
I would literally sooner intentionally install malware in my phone than anything from Meta.
How much does a phone manufacturer get when they do these pre-inatalled app deals?
Apparently enough to destroy the reputation over it.
To me I'm most supprised on this one, I mean, wasn't the whole point of the nothing to be a phone that doesn't distract you as much, lets you stay in the moment.
what the hell kind of partnership is this. This is as dumb as say an electric vehicle company partnering up with climate change deniers
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Probably more than what they get from selling it. That’s similar to why sports are all hands on deck with gambling now and they don’t give a shit about the fans at all
Looks like nothing I want to waste money on.
Wait they are monetizing this hard so soon? They barely launched the brand
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Bruh. This is truly surprising. I feel like for a phone like this, it must be like 90% of the target market that would hate this? Seems like an unimaginably bad business decision. Of course, if FB gave them enough money, then this is kinda like taking a bribe to stop competing.
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FUCK THAT
So I've been holding onto my OnePlus 6T because it was the closest thing to a Nexus after they destroyed it and migrated it into the Pixel program.
I've been eyeballing Nothing for a while now, but it looks like before I could even get one, they're already off the market for me.
So, the Nothing 3a, AKA The Something.
Bummer, I thought nothing was a good brand.
Nothing's new.
FTFY
The problem with Meta (also russian Yandex) is that it was caught having web-side trackers that send stuff to localhost, where it gets caught by Meta apps and then sent to Zucker servers. This two-bit scheme was noticed by researchers and isn't there anymore, but it is a clear display why having these apps preinstalled is a problem. Regular ads are better than Mark looking over your shoulder whenever his meta pixel triggers.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/meta_pauses_android_tracking_tech/
Nothing says 'I'm shitty' more than naming yourself 'Nothing'. Oh, wait, using meta/facebook makes you even shittier.
Nothing says 'I'm shitty' more than naming yourself 'Nothing'.
I mean...that's an odd take. Don't know how someone could be so upset over the name of a company, but hey let that anger out.
Oh, wait, using meta/facebook makes you even shittier.
No arguments there though.
I mean I am pretty happy with my nothing phone. It came with a pretty minimal stock android that runs on hardware that's quite good for what I paid. Despite the shitty name that people have indeed made fun of, the phone's been pretty good so far.
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Thanks for reporting it. I was eyeing a 3a phone, but no more.
This is a major bummer. I was kinda rooting for them to be the OEM that GOS would be working with.
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So it is oficially a shitphone.
Nothing could have been Something.
Can they even be removed with adb?
Disappointing.
I bought one of their phones nearly a year ago. The UI was... Not great, IMO, but I was able to re-skin it. The SD card slot was the biggest reason for me. Well, now I know taht my next phone is going to be a Pixel with Graphene installed.
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i knew they was fake as shit bro
Wow they've fallen hard in the last 24 hours
how much do these places pay to make their apps into terminal cancer that cant be excised.
Surely this can still removed with ADB?
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