{"id":6579,"date":"2022-08-04T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T04:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/nothing-phone-1-review-an-android-with-funky-lights-on-its-transparent-back\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T06:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T04:37:24","slug":"nothing-phone-1-review-an-android-with-funky-lights-on-its-transparent-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/nothing-phone-1-review-an-android-with-funky-lights-on-its-transparent-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Phone 1 review: an Android with funky lights on its transparent back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novel design, good cameras, solid performance and battery life make a competitively priced package<\/p>\n<p>The Phone 1 is the first smartphone from the British technology startup Nothing, led by the OnePlus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/jul\/10\/oneplus-affordable-smartphones-two-carl-pei\">co-founder Carl Pei<\/a>, who set up on his own with the aim of bringing back a bit of interest and excitement to the increasingly samey world of consumer electronics.<\/p>\n<p>But the firm\u2019s follow-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/13\/nothing-ear-1-review-funky-semi-transparent-earbuds-worth-a-listen\">the funky Ear 1 earbuds<\/a> is no flashy top-spec phone. Priced at \u00a3399 (A$749), it looks to compete directly with more affordable models such as Samsung\u2019s mid-range A-series and Google\u2019s Pixel 6a. It does so while offering something unique: a series of white LED strips strewn across a transparent glass back to create patterns of light that Nothing calls \u201cglyphs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/04\/nothing-phone-1-review-an-android-with-funky-lights-on-its-transparent-back-cameras-battery\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d2a977b21039e40e63c1b1726056440fd8b75d75\/201_459_3529_2118\/master\/3529.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6caa72fff6cd2603a3a4ec0ceb75f657\" title=\"Nothing Phone 1 review: an Android with funky lights on its transparent back\" \/>Novel design, good cameras, solid performance and battery life make a competitively priced package<br \/>\nThe Phone 1 is the first smartphone from the British technology startup Nothing, led by the OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, who set up on his own with the aim of bringing back a bit of interest and excitement to the increasingly samey world of consumer electronics.<br \/>\nBut the firm\u2019s follow-up to the funky Ear 1 earbuds is no flashy top-spec phone. Priced at \u00a3399 (A$749), it looks to compete directly with more affordable models such as Samsung\u2019s mid-range A-series and Google\u2019s Pixel 6a. It does so while offering something unique: a series of white LED strips strewn across a transparent glass back to create patterns of light that Nothing calls \u201cglyphs\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novel design, good cameras, solid performance and battery life make a competitively priced package The Phone 1 is the first smartphone from the British technology startup Nothing, led by the OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, who set up on his own with the aim of bringing back a bit of interest and excitement to the increasingly &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/nothing-phone-1-review-an-android-with-funky-lights-on-its-transparent-back\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nothing Phone 1 review: an Android with funky lights on its transparent back<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}