I have used Flagship Samsung S series phones as my last two phones. With Samsung, I have a complaint that I have to deal with two mail apps, two app stores, and lots of Google and Samsung pre-installed apps. Samsung keeps raising the prices of its phones, and I want to get rid of dual apps; I wanted a clean stock Android experience. Then Switched to Nothing Phone 2. After using it for years, I came to know Stock Android is clean but doesn’t have any features. After using Samsung flagships for years, switching to Nothing feels like nothing; there are just a couple of special features that are the only things available on Nothing.
- Using quick shortcuts on the home screen.
- Adaptive minimal icons for every application.
- Quick shortcuts on the lock screen.
- Very useful and cool-looking widgets if available.
- Minimal UI.
Now I’ll tell you the cons/ limitations of the Nothing OS over the Samsung one ui.
- The clock app from Google is shit compared to Samsung.
- The calculator app is the worst by Google. In Samsung, you can do whatever is scientific, converters, etc. There is no phone by Google.
- In Samsung, the customisation is built in with an added good lock module. You can tweak anything; I really mean anything from looks to gestures to UI elements, size positions, and working of the overall ui within the system applications. No third-party app is needed.
- It comes with a photos app that starts syncing your photos with any mistaken touch confirmation, but stopping the system takes a lot of steps. And features work only when you upload a photo to the cloud. But in Samsung, a proper gallery app is provided that can do so much stuff with that convenience. Nothing Gallary ever matched. Also, Nothing’s own gallery does not work as a system app on Nothing’s phone. What a piece of crap. Also, it’s just 8-9% of what Samsung Gallery offers.
- Nothing animations are okay, but if you installed any third-party launcher, just forget the fluidness, and animations go back to 2007-8. Animations were broken using third-party launchers.
- The mediocre camera’s portrait mode blurs the main subject a lot, not just the background.
- Nothing to tell as there is nothing in it to tell more.
It’s such a basic phone that I have to use a third-party gallery, photo editor, file manager, and whatnot. Stock android is not that good in the name of clean they bald the experience overall.
