Nothing OS 1.1.0 update delivers much-needed camera and Glyph light improvements
TheNothing Phone 1has been here less than a week and is already making its mark in the smartphone market in Europe and Asia. The Phone 1 may not be perfect, but it’s a respectable entry into the field for a new phone (granted, Nothing CEO Carl Pei is anything but a newcomer at this point). If you managed to pick up a Phone 1, you’ve probably already downloaded one update to make HDR videos pop on your OLED screen, but be on the lookout for another one if you haven’t got it already.
The Nothing OS 1.1.0 update has started an incremental rollout to users worldwide (perXDA Developers). In addition to the usual bug fixes and security patches that come with these types of updates, the update also brings improvements to image processing.Our reviewnoticed that the Nothing Phone 1 had trouble in low light and color consistency between the primary camera and the ultra wide. Nothing appears to have directly addressed both of those issues with this update.
Nothing also claims that this update brings an experimental Tesla control feature and an NFT widget, though according to pre-release update logs we got on our review unit, these were added with earlier releases already. It’s possible that these two features have been improved with this update, though. We neither own NFTs nor a Tesla to test this with, though.
This kind of rapid response from Nothing is a good early indicator of the support from the company, though, which promises to provide updates for its first phone for the next five years. If you don’t want to wait for the rolling update to hit you, European users can get ithere, and everyone else can get ithere.
UPDATE: 2022/07/25 10:32 EST BY MANUEL VONAU
Clarification
The article has been updated to reflect that the NFT widget and the Tesla features have existed in previous iterations of the software.
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