If you’re like most people, your phone like Nothing Phone 1 is a constant companion. Whether you’re using it to check social media, play games, or manage your day-to-day tasks, it’s indispensable. However, there are times when your phone can be a bother – especially if you’re trying to relax and enjoy your time away from the device.

That’s why we’ve compiled a list to make life with your phone easier. So whether you’re trying to stay connected while on vacation or just want to chill out for a spell, read on to learn about these useful tips on Nothing Phone One!

Nothing Phone 1 Design

To begin with, the nothing phone one has a stunning design. Place this right next to the sea of sameness and candy bar design. And, you know, this phone looks good. Now, since we were under an embargo, I’ve been trying to keep this phone hidden, but it grabs attention, and you don’t need to be a nerd to actually appreciate the design.

But I can’t shake off the feeling that the nothing phone one, with its boxy design and metal midframe, feels a lot like using an iPhone. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing, because the iPhone is not a bad thing. Now, the metal used in the midframe is actually made of recycled aluminum, which is definitely working towards the sustainable goals of the brand as a whole.

Now, this is, of course, very premium and polished, for sure, but unfortunately, it’s kind of soft metal because I dropped the phone face flat the black one, and nothing happened to the screen because the screen protector is fantastic.

But there was a slight ding on the metal, which means that you should use it with the case. And we tried it with the transparent case from nothing. And I feel that the nothing phone one in black with a transparent case doesn’t look as good as the white one does, but this case has already started yellowing.

The phone didn’t fall down because it was slippery or anything. The in-hand feel is very good, and it stays planted all throughout your usage. So if you can be careful and if you’re better at avoiding mishaps than me, then I would suggest that you do not use a case with the phone, because this transparent design is definitely worth flaunting off.

And, of course, the fact that the phone is light and fairly slim makes it comfortable to use with one hand. Now, as for the design, you also get IP 53 rating and wireless charging.

And you also get tight tolerances throughout the construction of the phone, which means that you get a very nice sturdy, and tactile power button and volume rocker as well. Plus the attention to detail with respect to the symmetrical sides and the placement of the buttons is definitely worth applauding.

It’s these tiny little things that sort of make the user experience even better and make it feel more premium and polished. In its price range, the nothing phone one design definitely leaks above the rest, including the Samsung Galaxy A 53 that I’ve been testing alongside it. Now, you must be wondering why am I testing the Galaxy A 53 alongside the nothing phone one?

Because the A 53 is Samsung’s highest-selling mid-ranger in 2022 and it has made the top ten lists already. So it makes for a fair comparison, especially when you’re looking at a global context. Now, the Galaxy A 53 is definitely all plastic and of course, just like the NFL one, it doesn’t come with a headphone jack.

Neither does it support wireless charging. But one of the advantages of the Galaxy A 53 is that it supports an IP 67 rating, which means that it can be submerged into the water as opposed to the NFL One, which of course does support only IP Three.

That’s between the Galaxy A 53 and the nothing phone one. When it comes to the design of the phone easily, the Nothing phone wins hands down. And I’ve not even started talking about the Glyph interface.

This brings me to the light, sound, and vibration showing that Nothing has been created with the 900 LEDs that form this Glyph interface on the rear. First things first, if you’re not a fan of all these lights and if you don’t like all the flash, you can actually switch it off from the notifications panel itself.

And of course, there’s a separate settings menu for the Glyph interface from which you can change a lot of the settings. Let me explain. The first thing you can do is choose from the ten custom ringtones and Glyph lighting effects plus vibration effects that Nothing has created specifically for the phone one.

Now, if you’re wondering, you can also add a custom ringtone. But what I noticed in my testing is that the Glyph lighting and the vibration doesn’t sink properly. And I have a feeling that Nothing can actually work on the algorithm to be able to do custom lighting effects for the sound.

This is something that I definitely hope comes in a future edition. Now, one thing I noticed during my testing is that from the Glyph interface at least, you can add custom ringtones for custom contacts, but you cannot do that for apps specifically.

Say, for example, you wanted a specific ringtone for Gmail or Telegram or WhatsApp. You cannot do that. And of course, you can show the charge level of the phone on the Glyph interface itself by just wiggling it when it is connected to a charge. And there’s also this flip to Glyph feature. What that basically does is when you flip the phone face down, all that will work is the cliff and none of the sound and the vibration will work.

So you’ll have to remember what the Glyph lighting is specifically for the kind of notifications that you get. Now, everything is great about the Glyph interface, but when it lights up, I noticed this very weird yellow bleed. I don’t know if it’s by design, but I’m not really a fan of that. I hope that can be fixed in the future with nothing phone two. While I still feel that there’s a lot of untapped potential for the Glyph interface, even in its current state, I like it.

It’s got a versicle look at me, I am s*xier than the others. Wiped to it.

Nothing Phone 1 Display

Now, coming to my display experience, nothing much has changed. I love that symmetrical bezel around the display itself, and that corner punch hole doesn’t really bother me. It goes without saying that the Galaxy A 53 also has a fantastic display and tiny bezels around the display as well.

Plus, for those who like a center punch hole, it has a center punch hole too. And I noticed that in regular usage, the Galaxy A 53 definitely gets brighter thanks to the fact that it can reach a peak brightness of 800 nits compared to nothing’s peak brightness and daily usage, which tops out at 500 nits.

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Although I must say that I do like the way the adaptive brightness is tuned on the nothing phone one. It doesn’t get unnecessarily bright like the Samsung Galaxy A 53 does, but if you watch videos in HDR on YouTube, the Nothing phone 1 can reach a peak brightness of 1200 nits. Fun fact the Galaxy A 53 doesn’t even support HDR videos on YouTube. And when you look at the displays and playback HDR video side by side, you can see how good the quality is. The HDR tuning is done very well.

Now, as for the stereo speaker setup, which is essential for a great multimedia experience, the Nothing Phone 1’s bottom speaker is definitely louder than the earpiece itself, but overall it’s a much louder dynamic sound compared to the Samsung Galaxy A 53.

And considering the fact that the phone one wants to be a very premium experience, the haptic feedback touting on the phone is of course very good. It’s definitely better than the Galaxy A 53 and actually puts it to shame.

The touch response rate of 240 Hz is also very good. And of course, you get a smart refresh rate option where it switches between 60 depending on the content that’s being displayed on the screen. Overall, I feel that it’s not that fair competition between the nothing phone One and the Galaxy 53.

The noting phone, one displays definitely better. But I know that there are many phones like the Poco F Four, which is much cheaper than the Nothing Phone One offers support for Dolby Vision and has a great multimedia experience too.

In fact, the stereo speaker setup is also great, but that’s a comparison for a latte. My only wish is that Nothing should add support for HDR or Netflix in a future update if possible, because that would elevate the experience to another level.

Nothing Phone 1 Software

When it comes to the software. The nothing phone One is running on Nothing OS based on Android Twelve and it has the main security patch. And Nothing promises that you will get three years of regular software updates and four years of security updates once every two months, which means that the next security patch update would probably be in July.

Now, the Galaxy A 53 of course is running on One UI 4.1 based on Android Twelve and has the latest June patch already. And of course, Samsung proposes three years of OS updates and four years of security updates as well.

So both are generally good in terms of promises, but we’ll have to wait and watch if they actually deliver on those promises because that’s where a lot of problems do crop up. I must mention one thing, by the time I’ve started using the phone, I’ve already gotten a version 1.0.2 update on the Nothing phone One, which is fixed a lot of things that are come to induce.

Now, Nothing OS is basically like stock OS with a few embellishments on top of it. The first thing that you can do is add custom icon packs and change the grid size as well. And of course, one thing that seems kind of unique to the Nothing OS is the fact that you can have enlarged folders and enlarged icons, which means that your most important apps get a prominent display on the home screen itself.

In fact, there are these enlarged circles within the notifications panel as well. When you swipe it down, you’ll see these two big circles for the network connectivity and Bluetooth. There are of course Nothing very own custom widgets which are basically for the weather and clock functions.

And that dot matrix style is Nothing’s very own style, which it uses and has shown it across the system apps like Settings and Camera as well. Now, in comparison, One UI is a very feature-rich, loaded software. But there are two reasons why I think the Nothing OS is better than One UI. Firstly, this is a very clean installation of the operating system that you get on the Nothing OS. You get only 27 apps installed, literally no Bloatware whatsoever.

And if you aren’t careful with the Galaxy A 53, it will end up installing a lot of unwanted third-party apps, including something like Josh and more importantly, the Nothing OS animation and UI are so smooth, it’s so clean, it’s extremely responsive compared to sometimes janky animations on One UI. That especially happens on Samsung’s mid-range phones.

Now, since this is Nothing’s very first for the very first time it’s tuning software, you must be wondering, does it have any bugs? And I’m happy to report that version 1.0.0 did have a few bucks and the version 1.0.2 update that I got cleared all the bugs, all the problems. It’s entirely bug-free, which is great.

I had no app crashes, I had no spacing whatsoever. And you know what? I’ve actually been using this black version of the phone as my primary device with my payment apps too. So yeah, it’s a good experience and I’m glad that Nothing could achieve this already.

Nothing Phone 1 Performance

And of course, I tested the Snapdragon 778 G Plus inside the Nothing Phone One and compared it against the Exynos 1280 inside the Galaxy A 53. I know this is not a fair fight, but of course, the Nothing phone one definitely performs better than the Galaxy A 53, especially in synthetic benchmarks like Antutu and Gigbench.

Now, a fair fight would be comparing it with something like a Snapdragon 870 or a Snapdragon 888. And that’s when you realize that the Nothing Phone 1 is definitely not a performance monster. But for daily usage and even for gaming, it suffices for most people, it doesn’t throttle too much.

The 3D mark wildlife stress test numbers are solid. You get near-perfect scores. And apart from that, the phone doesn’t get too hot either. Whether you’re playing games, whether you’re running tests, it runs cool most of the time, under 40 degrees.

Now, there’s also a game mode that I noticed within the Settings app, but a Tweet breakdown of the software itself claims that that game mode is a third-party solution from a Chinese vendor and not necessarily Android’s very own solution.

Now, I don’t know how true that is, but what you can do with the Game mode is set your phone on DND and also opt for mistouch prevention on the touchscreen itself. And I’m presuming the Game mode also puts it in some sort of performance mode to perform better.

Now, the phone can run a lot of graphically intensive titles like Quality Mobile at very high and Max settings, and you can do Smooth Extreme and HDR Ultra in BGMI as well. I’ve been playing a lot of Apex Legends and I noticed that the max traffic settings that you can go to is Extreme HD and it can give you ultra frame rates as well. In fact, we did a perf dog run on the phone itself and we got a stability score of 58.7 frames per second.

And the phone didn’t get too hot either. So yeah, the 778 G Plus is a capable enough performer for gaming and what we notice is that it is also better tuned than the Moto Edge 30 that we tested recently, which also comes with a 778 G Plus.

By the way, the phone has an optical fingerprint scanner and you can see that the light actually goes to the skin when I’m unlocking the phone. Now, this fingerprint scanner before the software update was kind of slow, but the software update kind of fixed it, so that’s a good thing. Now, you also do get support for face to unlock using the front camera and there’s an option to unlock using a mask as well.

The iPhone hangover is of course very visible.

Nothing Phone 1 Camera

Now, for a detailed camera review of the nothing phone one, Now, the nothing phone has what I categorized as a good set of cameras.

I like the fact that nothing has gone for something straightforward as a dual camera setup, a 50-megapixel primary and a 50-megapixel ultra-wide, and a single selfie camera on the front. Now, what the primary Sony IMX 766 can do is it can take a sharp image, which is very natural, and sharp and shows almost true-to-life colors as well.

In comparison, the Samsung Galaxy A 53, which is 64-megapixel primary sensor, tends to be slightly over-saturated and slightly oversharpen as well. But the Galaxy A 53 does have an edge when it comes to HDR photography and portraits. That’s something that I wish that Nothing Phone 1 can become better at soon.

I generally preferred the Galaxy A 53 for pictures of people using the primary camera on the rear. But the phone one actually does a better job when it comes to low light shots when it comes to selfies and of course, when it also comes to video recording, which came as a surprise to me, in fact, the sound recording and videos are also better than the Samsung Galaxy A 53, which was good, to begin with.

The only advantage that the Samsung Galaxy A 53 has when it comes to selfies or video recording is that on the front camera you can do four K thirty FPS video recording the Galaxy A 53. And the HDR selfies are better on the Samsung Galaxy A 53 because it does expose the face better.

Also, despite the fact that you get a 15-megapixel camera on the Nothing Phone 1, the 12-megapixel ultra wide-angle camera on the Galaxy A 53 is actually sharper in daylight shots and you can use the Nothing Phone 1’s ultra wide-angle camera for macro shots as well.

But the problem with that is it cannot get as close to a subject as the dedicated macro on the Samsung Galaxy A 53. And since it’s using the ultraviolet alba, if you don’t get the focus distance right, there is that fringe in that you will notice both these cameras are sort of a mixed bag. Sometimes the Galaxy 53 wins, sometimes the Nothing Phone 1 wins. So I’d say both are in the good category for sure.

Nothing Phone 1 Battery

Now, coming to the battery performance of the Nothing Phone 1, it’s got a 4500 amp battery inside it. And before the update, I actually got a screen on time of about 5 to 6 hours. But after the update, nothing did some tweaks that made a whole world of change.

I actually recorded a screen on time of more than 8 hours, and I was left on most cases with 15% to 20% of battery life at the end of the day, which is very good. Now, this does make up for the fact that nothing phone one has low charging and no charger in the box either.

It supports a max wired charging speed of 33 watts. And I tried it with a stuff full neuron 33-watt charger and it took about 1 hour and 8 minutes to charge from zero to 100%.

Obviously, there are phones in this price range that can do 67-watt charging, 80-watt charging, and 120-watt charging as well, which can charge your phone in under 40 minutes for sure. In comparison the Galaxy A 53 has 25-watt charging, so that’s definitely slower. And it also doesn’t support wireless charging as the Nothing Phone 1 does.

The Nothing Phone 1 supports 15-watt wireless charging and 5-watt reverse wireless charging as well, as the battery life on the Galaxy A 53. It’s good, it’s very good. And you can get about 7 hours of screen on time, but it’s not better than Nothing Phone 1.

Now, tell me one thing does the extra like wireless charging make up for the slower charging speeds for you? Because I am not somebody who cares about charging my phone in under 30 minutes or anything.

But if you are, and I would like to really know your opinion, would you have wanted faster charging, or are you okay with 33-watt fast charging on the Nothing phone 1?

Nothing phone 1 Connectivity

Now, the phone supports 12 5G bands, which is fantastic, and you get support for 4G plus carrier aggregation as well. Now, 4G plus is something that I’ve experienced and has been very sporty in my time with many phones that I’ve tested. How has it been for you? Let me know in the comments. Now, the earpiece quality on the Nothing phone 1 is generally very good.

You get crystal clear calls, which is also true for the Samsung Galaxy A 53 to a large extent. What I’ve noticed is that most midrange phones rarely, if ever, falter when it comes to calling quality through the ear.

Conclusion

To many the Nothing Phone 1 might seem like just a statement piece, but no, it’s also a great phone overall. I have loved my time already with the phone, despite the fact that it has a few minor niggles here and there. In fact, I’m tempted to use this as my primary phone, but I’m somebody who wants great cameras and great performance, so I’d go for a flagship.

Now, while I think that Nothing is not really trying to compete with One Plus because the One plus of now is different from the One Plus of the past, I still feel like using the phone One feels like using One Plus phones until the OnePlus Seven series. I think the Nine phone one is going to be my de facto recommendation for a lot of folks looking for a very solid midrange phone.

And it doesn’t hurt that it looks so good. Now, one thing that might hold me back slightly from recommending Nothing form over a Samsung phone right now is, of course, the fact that Nothing is a new entrant in the market and we are still unsure of what the after-sales service and support will be like for the first one.

But for those who have already purchased the year one, I have generally noticed that they’ve had a good experience. Do you own one? A year? One. Has your experience been good?

I would love to know that. Now, of course, that’s the Nothing phone one, but what about the fact that compared to the Galaxy A 53, is it a better overall experience when it comes to hardware and software? Hell yes. Although I must mention this, the Nothing Phone 1 is definitely not going to be one for performance enthusiasts who should definitely look at a phone with a Snapdragon 870 or a Snapdragon 888.

And that’s not even Nothing Phone 1’s target audience either. Nothing is gunning for the hype beasts folks who love sneaker culture by Jordan, folks like that. So overall, the Nothing Phone 1 is a great phone from Nothing.

See what I did there? But my question is, what does Nothing do for Nothing Phone 2? Because the transparent design is unique for the first time, will it do the same transferring design the next time? Will it do something even more creative? I am really curious and that’s exactly why nothing is getting the kind of hype that it’s getting.

Maybe it’s not even doing that kind of marketing, but people are definitely excited. So, what do you folks think of the Nothing Phone 1? Do you like it? Do you not like it? Do you think it’s overhyped?

Well, all that said, let me know in the comment section below. Now, firstly, I want to talk about the pricing of the Nothing Phone 1.

I think that it has been priced well, but I feel the fact that you have to buy a charger separately for around $35 and that yellow in the case separately for $20 is maybe a bit much. Now, a couple of other things that I want to address is the fact that on Twitter there was a user who raised a concern that he faced a black crush issue on his AMOLED panel.

I actually did check it out on my unit and I don’t see a problem at all. Having said that, it could be a quality control issue. So that’s something that you have to keep in mind when you’re buying the phone.

And apart from that, there was another user where moisture had gathered right next to his lenses. And that was slightly scary considering the fact that it comes with IP 53 rating. We’ve been using it in extremely heavy rainfall and both the units are absolutely fine. In fact, even we have taken it out of the hand and put it under the rain and nothing happened to it and it’s actually fine.

I’m presuming that the problem was caused by the fact that there’s a mic right next to the cameras and maybe water is seeping through it. But I don’t think that it seems like a one-off problem. Again, seems to be a quality control issue. We have to wait and watch how Nothing responds to it the moment they come with the response.

Keep tracking and stay safe.