Just like your head it has nothing.

I see what you did there lmfao

Nothing to fix the phone shouldn’t be fixable I feel that’s why the company named it nothing phone. Nothing to fix even if broken and that’s why I don’t want a nothing phone.

No kidding. Wow…what a very complicated device. Super easily damaged as far as cabling, especially if you’re new to repairs. Luckily Hugh is a veteran! ❤️ The OS overlay, beautiful. The phone itself when assembled, beautiful! But…it is definitely NOT repair-friendly…as many phones are designed to be these days. This one has several weird little quirks and no-boot situations depending upon what you’re doing too, which is extra annoying when testing out what might be broken if doing a repair… I can say, I can only recommend the Nothing Phone to people who case-protect their devices, and don’t drop them much at all.

@@julieboruta The Fairphone is really nice these days, with some decent specs, but unfortunately we have to import them in the US because they aren’t sold here directly. Nor is the Nothing Phone, tbh 😂

@@wingit7335 why would they. They own their own operating system completely and have complete freedom over what they do, why would they want android

@@Articbear his comment confused the hell out of me lmao

@@wingit7335 There own operating system and it's cheap for them . And i like where iOS is going . It's good .

@@wingit7335 Android was made as retaliation from former Apple employees why would they use an operating system like that?

@@wingit7335 theoretically they could cuz android is open source but that wouldnt make sense

Except they’ve some how made it harder to repair

@@axethepenguin unlike apple who glue everything together?

There is always pixel

@@supersecretninjame did nothing not glue everything together though? or did you not watch the video

@@axethepenguin so then how is in not like apple? xD did you read the comment you are replying to?

@Chandler Russell yeah it better be. Kinda sucks for the people who bought it now though

@e damn, a bot noticed me. That's a first.

@Chandler Russell Honestly i think the price is enough to deter anyone away from the phone company for good. People are wanting to not upgrade to the iphone 14 due to the base model starting at 799 a significant price increase from last year. Plus this phone is the textbook definition of function over form and I really don't think that's enough of a reason for people to buy a phone these days since it's OS ust running a vanilla version of Android; there just doesn't seem like enough of a reason to spend this kind of money for a beautificated bare bones android device. Not to mention the design of this phone looks like a mass production nightmare and all the stupid beauty covers on the back of the phone just makes it even more needlessly complex. I know this phone is an early build unit but still with it's current state Nothing needs to go back to the drawing board and figure out how they can make the design of the phone more condusive for mass production.

@@michealpersicko9531 The nothing phone is cheap? the base model costs £230 less than the iphone 13 128gb model

I am staying far away from this company. we all watched OnePlus sell out. I can see this company selling out quicker.

Well, that would be - again - destroying the box to open it

@@anianii better then how it was opened

I am aware, I just didn't want to tear the side of the box off as I will be selling these devices at some point in the future. As I mentioned its almost impossible to open the box without destroying it.

@@HughJeffreys okay got it 👍

@@HughJeffreys true almost every box I had is like this you need to break it first better use a package on there or like iPhone

Some OnePlus phones have similar issues. I'd remember the OnePlus7? was such that if screen repairement was needed you needed to get sparepart with housing, not just screen, or this would happen. This is a 3rd similarity that this phone has with OnePlus when it comes to repairability 😅 Edit: Should watch the whole video after commenting, lol. This was more similar to Huawei P -series than OP7.

Fun story, I once had a customer come back to us after a colleague had repaired his Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra. The fingerprint wasn't working and I had no clue what he had done. I discovered that the phone needed some special fp calibration and started running it. Found out that you need the Goodix (or similar cubes) to calibrate it - while the customer was waiting. Funnily enough, I just started experimenting by putting my hand a a stapler as replacements and the calibration actually worked. That day I learned, that I will never order these cubes ever :)

@@PvtAnonymous omg how? Do you have a video of someone doing this?

@@cristianmendoza5774 sadly not, was pretty easy tho. FP worked like a charm after that.

@@PvtAnonymous you shou do yours bro! Worlds needs your knowledge

without the plastic it would easily break some parts on a sunny shiny day. that is a general issue with these sort of transparent look if you want one.

@@essah4161 What parts would it break? You mean because of the heat of the sun?

@@essah4161 Do you have a link to a document talking about that issue? I can't find one and I'd like to know more.

At least they could've put the covers on the back glass, so that when you remove the back cover, you can proceed to normally repair the phone. But it's a design company, they obviously don't care about reparability.

@Essah there is none in component basically photo/light sensitive. Covering an electronic circuit from light is usually for protect it from elements, if you have photo/light sensitive component, for cooling. In phone ? I never see any photo sensitive/light sensitive component other than camera (which basically protected already). In fact make the color black is the culprit of every phone for heating faster due to sun heat.

this phone is nothing but marketing. i dont see why anyone would buy this phone other than for looks.

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Sorry, I just had to.

@@kutilmartin Costs: $450 Screen: extremely good, almost flagship level, uniform tiny bezels Cameras: very decent, no gimmicks like 2mp macros Design and build quality: very nice and unique + premium materials Specs: decent chipset, good storage and ram Software: almost stock, quick and snappy Yea clearly no reasons to buy the phone. Ignore the fact it's probably the best midrange phone out right now 🤡🤡

@@propersod2390 not everything is perfect, always a device has a common issue. Like my Redmi Note 9 Pro's proximity sensor.

@@propersod2390 also a broken display and no headphone jack, so yeah really no reason to buy it

Yeah pretty much. I've bought Motorola devices for the past few years because they tend to have better bang for buck within my price range, but I've always noticed how repair-unfriendly they are - the main motherboard also has the charging port on it on most models, for anyone unaware.

And also basically runs stock Android with slight modifications, mainstream indeed.

There is almost nothing about this phone that isn't mainstream: Software locked fingerprint? Yes No headphone jack or expandable storage? Yup Hard to repair? Definitely Knocks off the iPhone design? Absolutely They put some white led strips on the back and said they were different. Want a phone that is actually different? Look up the F(x) tec pro 1 X. It has a full size keyboard you can show by sliding it so typing on a phone is actually precise and fast. Now, that's non-mainstream.

@@annihilator247x and where teh hell can i find one of these devices and can it be used on Verizon Wireless

@@annihilator247x And they have the nerve to call other phones boring and mainstream while they make a phone that is replica of iPhone 12 with back-light and stock android, like what? If innovation is putting back LED lights on phone then we're done with innovating.

@@michealpersicko9531 That should be Verizons problem, not yours.

As if you could do better, or even understand at all why it is the way it is past you not liking it.

@Who Dis? fingerprint/face ID data gets stored in a secure enclave both on Android and iPhone and it's located inside of the built-in storage. Fingerprint scanner is just a scanner, it doesn't store anything inside of it. That's like saying that someone can hack Phone's PIN code by replacing the touchscreen because that's the only way it could be typed in.

Well the repairability wasn't a big focus for them anyway. Most of the low level stuff was done by the manufacturing partner itself. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/fpGWgaCffWmiuKs.html

Is it worth buying?

@@jacobunofficial1146 Yes its worth buying

nah apple is worse for part

@@Ben-ev5se I repaired an iPhone X with a new screen and earpiece assembly I didn't use the method for keeping Face ID

Talking about the newer iphones whereby changing the screen by yourself and not a professional with equipment is bad, losing truetone and faceid, changing the camera module will make u lose the camera features but overall it's still a great phone

Nothing beats Apple

@@RestoreTechnique lol nothing

they're not a walk in the park. they just don't have so many plastic decals for aesthetic purposes

nah, the NP1 seems easy to disassemble. If you want to give yourself a challenge, try Huawei. They somehow manage to make the most anti-repair phones I've ever seen. Laptops too.

Unfortunatley this is pretty much how all "transparent" phones are designed. I am not sure if this is to protect the internals or the user (maybe additional shielding is required to reduce interference or Sar vaules or the plastic could be there for internal structure/reduce the chance of something shorting out). It would be great to see a phone that is properly designed for this purpose. I used to be so excited for special models like this but once you learn that it's fake it's not te same.

Remember the price.

Have you looked inside the engine compartment of all production cars of today? Plastic covers everything to make it seem bigger/more pleasing to the eye, hiding parts that actually do the work. Reminded me strongly of this. EDIT: A world of lies we're living in.

@@IvoStunga Lot of that plastic is for noise reduction and pedestrian safety though.

@@sandorbence2067 how's loose plastic covering engine turns out to be safer for pedestrians, considering they don't reach the engine, but are impacting only body of the car?

He swapped the sensors though. It's optical aka just a camera

I think there could be some pretty neat cases for this phone showing the LEDs... Or maybe not... I dunno, we'll see. I'm excited though!

Just buy a dongle lol, no point in getting a bad phone only because it has a headphone jack. I wouldn't buy the Nothing phone either, but most phones don't come with a headphone jack anymore

I wonder if front mounted notification LEDs will come back. If we can mount a camera under the display, we can do an LED in the corner

@@haydn6462 Every phone without a headphone jack is a bad phone. I wouldn't buy a bad phone because I can buy a dongle. "lol"

@@mjc0961 Yeah, an S22 is a much better phone than an A52 lmfao

its repairable as you see, but i still cant find those parts online so i guess youre kind of not wrong...

Their repair service is actually cheap I'd expect

Everything else minus the fingerprint sensor is replaceable. Pretty sure there will be a tool out soon to reprogram the sensor.

@@heyramineni Good luck finding the parts, they don't sell them. Who wants to waste a month or two posting their phone back to China & return ??

Almost 95% people who buy their phone don't repair it by themselves

Well, nothing ever is what it seems!

Learned from the best.

And this is why you don't comment before finishing the video

Hello Niko

The iPhone needs laser equipment to remove the adhesive on the back glass.

Naah it's not that bad. Repair manuals will be available soon and with them, the nothing is only a tiny bit more complicated than your typical android phone

@@NK-Repairs Agree - most people can get away with using a hairdryer to heat the back and phone opening kits with tweezers, guitar picks, spudgers etc cost less than £10 (at least in the UK). So while it's not completely DIY it's still at least accessible. Sourcing OEM parts for the phone, however, is a different story (counterfeit parts, actual original but serialized parts, etc etc). Battery replacements are probably the most commonly needed replacement these days and it's not as easy as it was back in the days of the S5 and below. Having to heat the back of the phone to replace the battery is more annoying now but it's somewhat more acceptible these days since it's only needed every 3 years or so. But having it intentionally hard to get to with difficult adhesive is explicitly anti-repair - it doesn't take a genius to know that the battery will need to be replaced in the device's lifetime. It doesn't even need to be adhered in THAT much since it's got the back of the phone and its surroundings largely keeping it in place too.

@@QuickishFM no one is fixing this phone if they haven't practiced beforehand

@@samholdsworth420 it's sort of besides the point, it could be made easier to repair to make it easier for people both with and without experience.

In many countries, those stickers are not legally binding and you can sue them if they refuse to repair it.

Those stickers are illegal, so that had better not be what they are.

Soon really soon we hope, a like and share will help

yeah hahahaha its so obvious as well and he missed it