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Someone asked how Nothing Phone UI looks. Worth sharing as a post. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

I've been using T-UI for probably 8+ years now. It hasn't been updated in ages, but it really doesn't need to be.

I've even built it out by creating a tui folder with empty files in it. Tasker has tasks set to execute when the files are modified, and T-UI has aliases set to touch specific files if commands are entered.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sorry this is the only thing I can think of when looking at those icons

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

https://youtu.be/xKLKl3H9rro

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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 left. 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What's that Clock widget and what icon pack areyou using here? That's not Articons is it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

It's the Orbit clock in the Kvaesitso launcher (one of the stock options). And yes, the icon pack is Arcticons, although I also use Alembicons to create icons for apps that aren't currently supported by Arcticons.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing to see here, folks...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

does the phone come with bloatware?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

No, it's almost empty.The only bloatware I had in the first version was YouTube application, which I don't use. And they have app to play with glyphs, but not installed by default either.At least it was like that oj the first version.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

As a first time Samsung user (with OneUI 7. So I never had experience when they were very bad from what I heard), I like a few of their apps more than Google's or other options tbh. Their Notes app is basically needed for handwriting notes using the stylus. I like their Calendar app more than Google's, and it's a toss between Fossify Calendar. Their Clock app is kind of amazing that I can make alarm groups that I can set to turn on or off based on a few conditions.

Bixby and AI stuff though can fuck off. Turned it off immediately.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

No idea, that's android, so probably. That view is their official launcher, but my phone came with default android looks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

I only can say... Fuck spez

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not gesture navigation?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

There's a setting for it yeah

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks like Nothing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fine, Dad, take my upvote.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And my Axe!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Let's have an obscure reference fight!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Good fight, good night!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Look it doesn't look as good as your UI, but it's as close as I could get to the monochrome look that I wanted, The widgets still have full colour:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That looks neat, what is the launcher name?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's nova launcher, paid, but worth it. Also has the nice side effect that when you move to a different phone tour UI remains the same

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why three comments? 😜

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

I got a CloudFlare page telling me I was blocked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

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