Yeah I’m skeptical of those claims as well, I’ve never owned a phone that did it a lot until this one and I’m pretty sure it’s Nothing who introduced the vast majority of problems.

Their just too concerned with things like clothing lines and pr stunts to actually fix anything they break

I wouldn’t buy the phone 1 again anyway put it that way.

It was actually great until phone 2 released then they updated it to be very unstable and the cameras also got noticeably worse from updates.

On the plus side I’ve read the custom roms for it are pretty good, I haven’t went that far yet but I know I will eventually.

All I know that really surprised me is I’d been disgusted with nothing phone 1 constantly rebooting for no reason since an update (still does it).

When I complained on a reddit sub about it I got a ton of replies saying it’s normal and not as bad as the pixel phones.

I’ve nowhere to go with that people are defending a completely unstable buggy phone and I’ve owned half a dozen androids before that and never seen any of them just randomly restarting.

Soy sauce I find strange I know people are meant to love it but I honestly can’t even taste it.

I’ve tried using it quite a lot because I’m a huge fan of Asian food but soy sauce stumps me as I can’t taste any difference. I can tell the difference if I add actual msg but not with soy sauce.

Jamie Oliver I get that thought anytime I see him on TV.

Hps one of only two companies that will never get a penny from me again. I had an HP desktop that the power supply died on at the beginning of Covid only then did I realise it was propriety and they didn’t even have it in stock.

Kept checking for about a year and couldn’t get a replacement when every other computer I’ve ever owned I could have bought a power supply the same damn day.

For the record the other company is Sony who just decided to delete my account with a lot of paid games because I hadn’t logged in for about 6 months.

For me Snes, PSP and the original PlayStation.

Just a nostalgia thing really but they did all have great games. Only console I currently own is a Vita and I mostly just play my old PSP favourites on it.

Imessage is garbage, nobody cares.

DISCLAIMER: Not an American

I hate Android updates mostly as Google seems to want to restrict it down to Ios levels recently.

They seem determined to make it hard to use emulators and to kill off apps like tasker… My latest experience has also been soured by having a nothing phone were every update seems to introduce more issues and not even attempting any bug fixing or optimisation it’s turned what was a pretty good phone originally into a constantly rebooting pos.

Blokada overrides the dns to its own and even then I don’t see how dns is at all relevant because it blocks the update server from being connected with.

Random reboots, battery life gets worse each update for no reason I can figure out using GSam Battery Monitor. The memory management is the worst of any Android phone I’ve owned despite 4 times more ram.

I’ve resorted to using an app called saver tuner to get what should be a normal battery life and that required adb permissions.

Nothing phone 1 from launch up to 1.5.6 very solid quick phone after the 2 update it went to garbage and as far as I can tell they shadow ban every single person on Reddit who brings up any issue and there’s a lot of them.

Basically everything is getting constantly worse and I’m convinced they ban anyone who has issues and I don’t think they’ve ever fixed a single issue.

So yeah I think they suck and and only care about pulling pr stunts and I’m actually kinda happy nothing chats backfired on them.

My only comment is avoid this company they introduce new issues every update and never fix a thing.

They seem more determined to pull pr stunts then actually supporting their devices and I’m pretty sure their headphones and watches are just aliexpress junk with some disguises and the prices multiplied

Well mine didn’t update at all until I manually added the servers from amazon it was blocking by default.

So I kind of assume taking them off again is a temporary solution. That said I can’t guarantee they haven’t changed anything since then and I might wake up to a worse fire cube sometime.

Ads are a genuine real security concern if it became a choice between YouTube and adblockers it’s bye YouTube for me.

Its a battle YouTube isn’t going to win, and to be honest YouTube has never and will never be a viable business their best bets just asking for donations and playing nice to anyone using it.

I have blokada on mine I had whitelisted all the amazon servers it connects with but when I read this I removed them all to stop it updating hopefully.

Will probably work until I get round to trying the xda fix.

You wouldn’t

I dunno I know Americans are inclined into hating Huawei/Honor but I wish I had went that way again instead of buying a Nothing phone.

Probably my biggest tech regret my last Honor was amazing and this Nothing crap just randomly restarts for no damn reason. In every technical way it should be an upgrade but my old Honor was so much better.

For the record I’m British and when I buy phone I usually buy it outright on a budget. Honors a company I’d buy from Again Nothing well not so much.

Apparently worse than I originally thought from what I understand now they logged every message sent and kept all files accessible including documents, photos, videos etc.

It’s available but judging from Nothings subs on /r nobody can actually get it to work.

If I can’t side load apps like vlc, YouTube next or Stremio as examples I simply won’t buy them anymore.