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Someone asked how Nothing Phone UI looks. Worth sharing as a post. (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by lb_o@lemmy.world to c/android@lemdro.id
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Hi, where else can I upload this image to illustrate what I mean?

This is UI on my nothing phone. I see a major benefit for my everyday mental wellbeing to not have my phone shooting at me with all colors, and instead being "just a good interface".

There might be some issues with icon recognition and speed of access, but since that's your device and your icon placement, you eventually getting used to it. In exchange you receive a clean UI which doesn't overload your receptors, which is a very important thing for the device you look at often.

Weather widget in the middle often shows calendar events, but I don't discolse that for privacy.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

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[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

https://youtu.be/xKLKl3H9rro

[–] elevenbones@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

Nothing to see here, folks...

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I do something similar on my phones. The screen turns on to a blank page with just the time and alarm/media playback information.

Home

To access my applications I swipe right. I've made the icons monochrome and removed their names so I rely on search to find and open the app I want. This makes app launching less of an addictive reflex and more of a conscious decision each time.

App Drawer

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

I have one. I hated the stock skin. I like having the apps I use regularly groups together by purpose on my home screen so I can get to them quickly. I immediately re-skinned it.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

does the phone come with bloatware?

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty light on bloatware. I broke my Nothing 2A's screen a couple months ago (it got ran over by a Camry) and I still miss it... I mean I still have it, and it still works but finding a cheap screen for it in the US is difficult

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

if one may pry further, what has been the most obvious of the bloatware on the device? how irritating has it been?

context: i'm tapping this comment out on a samsung device that has a whole shadow suite of bloatware apps which simply can't be disabled on stock. i am considering a switch but don't want to end up swapping a frying pan for the fire.

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Oh fuck no... Samsung taught me to hate bloatware. Nothing is not even in the same league. The 2a came with an app to integrate other Nothing devices and an AI wallpaper generator. It also came with some software to integrate with the glyph interface that I actually liked.

Just an FYI, a lot of phones can now be debloated using Shizuku and Canta. Just search the right process for your phone

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 hours ago

While I've heard mostly good stuff about Nothing, I noticed an interesting tidbit about early investors on Wikipedia:

raised $7 million from investors including Tony Fadell, Kevin Lin, Steve Huffman, and Casey Neistat.

Steve Huffman of Reddit fame, as a Lemmy denizen I'd say not ideal to be pouring more money in his pockets lol

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like Nothing.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Fine, Dad, take my upvote.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And my Axe!

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Let's have an obscure reference fight!

[–] xylol@leminal.space 1 points 4 hours ago

Can you use something like the kiss launcher to make it text based and no icons

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Is there a way to bring back colorful icons without changing the launcher ? The phones and the launcher look solid but these icons make it pretty dull

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago

There's a setting for it yeah

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, IIRC you can choose between monochrome and colorful options, but it immediately loses that touch and looks like any other Android phone, which is not a bad thing, Android has a good design overall.

[–] WFloyd@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

In the same vein, I use Niagara launcher and a monochrome theme - I find it helps with the phone addiction.

Edit: This is just one tool, you also have to really want it to break habits.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah, the same principle. And they UI also done as some custom application you install.

Phone didn't come with it installed by default, maybe it is now.

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] RouxBru@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You can do the same monochromatic thing with nova launcher and whicons

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Awesome! I am glad I have your comment in my history. If I ever change phone to another android, I will come back to it, so I know how to swap to monochrome :3

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

3 different data mining parent companies

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why three comments? 😜

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I got a CloudFlare page telling me I was blocked.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Middle widget is mostly calendar events, but because my calendar is now free it swapped to weather by its own.

It works well though, because I don't know where my eyes will land when I start looking at the screen. Sometimes it is the top of the screen, sometimes middle, both will outcomes will tell me about the weather, which is the only reason I look at the screen, honestly.

[–] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

BankID spotted!

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Jo. Proprietary foundation of Swedish society.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Does the phone have a built in battery charge limiter or do you need to root for that? I leave my phone plugged in all day/night running stuff and I really don't need it at 100% 24/7. I think that's the only thing I need root for at this point. Nothing else I want to run needs it anymore after android 13 finally added the ability to toggle airplane mode on and off WITHOUT root.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I checked now. Recently learned about this feature from reddit, and just checked it to find that it is activated already on my phone.

It has "smart charge mode" to gradually charge overnight, and "Custom charging mode" to not charge it to 100%. Maybe I should activate it.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Thank god. Whoever decided that "smart battery charging" should only ever be automatic, and can't be hard capped should be quartered. Thank god more companies are finally giving people the option. Especially since it apparently goes all the way down to 70%. This might be what gets me to finally retire this poor phone.

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why not gesture navigation?

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, that's too hard for me to figure out how to setup without knowing the outcome.

Is it good and worth to dig in?

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah and I think it's pretty easy to do so. And easy to go back if you don't like it

[–] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

looks very clean

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Thanks! It is. Maybe their launcher is just available for all Android phones. Or there are other monochrome launchers.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I just want a feature phone that can act as a wifi hotspot for my laptop.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't it standard on all phones?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's what I was gonna say. Like my pre iPhone smart phone had bluetooth and wired hotspot.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

feature phone. slangly called a dumbphone. basically I want something that is by and large only a phone but just add ability to get my laptop online with it.

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I would like to have a Project Ara without Google buying it up and doing some good PR only for it to disappear forever. Project Ara was presented by Google in 2014 and was a modular smartphone where all components could have been replaced...

[–] arisu@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

cool!

[–] ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

How is notification center and phone?

[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 6 hours ago

As far as I can tell they're stock from Android

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Is it the one you see when you slide down?

That one is still bombarded by notifications from applications, so I simply have "Do Not Disturb" mode on almost all the time.

It also allows to disable notification by holding it, but it is like that on all phones, I assume.

It has support for silent notifications also, but I kinda just nuke whatever new thing pop ups there.

And also it has customizable buttons for features with the ability to change size and placement. Quite neat.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

You should be able to long press unwanted notifications and stop the system showing that class of notification or all notifications from some app

"Turn off" stops that class of notification from that app

Settings gear takes you to the notification section of the app that threw the notification and toggle any or all of that apps notifications

You can also get to the notification a couple of other ways:

  • Settings/apps go to whatever app's settings including notification settings
  • In your switch application view tap the icon above the app's card
[–] ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Nice! I have Bern struggleing to get a clean UI. But my notification area is always cluttered πŸ˜…

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

And it's like constantly 50 notifications you never asked for stacked in the endless columns of meaningless information, regardless how often you disable them :D

But I simply nuke whatever pop ups. Keep sms, and emails.

I also thought that's standard, but that UI also allows to customize and disable them per category when you hold your finger on the notification. So I can disable everything, but keep direct messages, for example.