TWO WEEKS WITH THE NOTHING PHONE 1
Pellucid dreams
With its transparent design and glyph lighting, it’d be easy to dismiss the Nothing Phone 1 as a glittery gimmick – so Tom Morgan-Freelander looks through the hype
from £399 / stuff.tv/Nothing1
DAY 01
Meet the smartphone equivalent of a freshly-launched pair of Yeezys. Excitement for Nothing’s Phone 1 was so frenzied that the first 100 handsets changed hands for almost ten times their retail value – and that was before the final hardware had even been revealed. Talk about hype…
On taking it out of the box for the first time, the flat glass and recycled aluminium frame gives off serious iPhone 13 vibes. It costs a third of Apple’s most expensive handsets, but does a good impression of them from the front and sides – just with a punch-hole selfie camera instead of a notch. It feels pretty premium too, and while its IP53 rating means it’s not as hardy as some pricier flagships, an IP rating of any kind is a rarity for less than £400.