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.
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).
Yes it is. If you mean that becaise of china, I don’t know why it would. Blossoming countries tend to open up. China is starting to blossom.
I’m not sure what problems that would lead to. Lenovo is a big part of the reason I 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)
More new ways to spy on us. Nothing is a good brand, but this is wrong. ( •_•)
@Mattr @Toasted_Breakfast They’re trying some things like lock-screen ads on some models too. Turned “off” by default (for now). But their Phone (3) isn’t getting that, if i understand correctly. Just the (a) models.
Not at all surprising for anyone who followed this company for a while. They’ve pretty much been all marketing. The phones are far from what they are advertised to be. Hell, it’d be great if they at least worked properly.
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.
What do you mean? There are tons of shit names.
Of course there are. But in this case the headline could be read:
Nothing’s new:…
I think you missed it. “Nothing is a shit name” can be read as “there are no shit names.”
(Unless I misread your comment and missed something.)
Yes, got wooshed, haha 😁
Nothing would be a great brand name if they were dedicated to making good phones without any bloatware.
The misinterpretation with the name nothing to the regular word nothing in headlines and everything is really bad, especially since the internet is global and for countries who never heard the name.
Some people think they’re really clever with their company name and cause lots of confusion with it for their narrow mindedness.
With ongoing enshittification in the quest for the lowest common denominator, why it might as well be mandatory to keep a 3310.
This is a major bummer. I was kinda rooting for them to be the OEM that GOS would be working with.
LMAO, lol even. Nothing 3 had shit hardware for the price, I was hoping it wouldn’t be them.
Oh? TIL. I guess if they’ve ruled out fairphone and nothing is as bad as you say, maybe it’s a larger player. Can’t think of many other small ones.
Moto seems like a contender. Or one of the Chinese players like Oneplus or Xiaomi, they are also looking for an edge over the market.
Personally I think it’ll be one of the bigger Chinese OEMs. Their phones have gotten a lot better recently, and security is pretty much the only thing they’re lacking. A move like this would perfectly fit some of their strategies.
We’ll see what happens. I’m enjoying analyzing the market to speculate which company it may be.
Before reading this, it would have never occurred to me that anyone even considered this possibility. And thank God it’s not happening. Their phones are abysmal dogshit.
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.
Thanks for reporting it. I was eyeing a 3a phone, but no more.
So, the Nothing 3a, AKA The Something.
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So it is oficially a shitphone.
i knew they was fake as shit bro
Bummer, I thought nothing was a good brand.
Yes, nothing is a good a brand, including Nothing
Fairphone?
So far so good.
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.
Yes, come over to the dark side. I haven’t had any issues so far, except for the whiplash it is to go from YouTube I scrolled for hours every day to using NewPipe which takes two seconds to load a new video. It has made me very mindful of what I want to watch because from searching to watching I need to wait like 10 seconds.
Haven’t dipped my toes into banking apps though. Thats a frontier I’ll deal with when I get to it.
Haven’t tried NewPipe yet. I currently use YouTube for specific videos, and I’m usually operating it from a private tab in my browser through a VPN, rather than the app. (So far I’m not getting served ads that way, although sometimes I have to skip to different countries to get around sign-in nags.)
Banking apps are the one thing that worries me. My prior bank didn’t allow rooted phones to be used for online banking; I haven’t made an attempt with my current phone. Given that I now live in a… Rather remote part of the country, access to online banking is fairly important.
Not that it isn’t scummy, but the screenshots in the article show that the Facebook app can be uninstalled, and the “Meta Services” app can be disabled. So it’s not the end of the world.
Can it be uninstalled, or just “uninstalled”? I’m concerned it’s going to be like andoid, where it gives you the option to “uninstall” chrome, but it just reverts it to the factory image and leaves a gaping hole in your security.
I only ever get a “disable” option. Which is basically the same thing, but it doesn’t even “uninstall” in quotes.
Wild, maybe its because I’m using an ancient phone. It gives me an uninstall option, but it doesn’t uninstall it.
I figured this might be the case. I hate how inconsistent Android is. It’s like not even the same OS depending on the phone it’s on. There’s always random little differences like this. 😬
I think it’s just that the playstore doesn’t know it’s a system app like the settings panel does.
Yeah, I’m still using my Samsung Note 8, haha
