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Someone asked how Nothing Phone UI looks. Worth sharing as a post. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by lb_o@lemmy.world to c/android@lemdro.id
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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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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like Nothing.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fine, Dad, take my upvote.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And my Axe!

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Let's have an obscure reference fight!

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[–] WFloyd@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In the same vein, I use Niagara launcher and a monochrome theme - I find it helps with the phone addiction.

Edit: This is just one tool, you also have to really want it to break habits.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, the same principle. And they UI also done as some custom application you install.

Phone didn't come with it installed by default, maybe it is now.

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month 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

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I only can say... Fuck spez

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] elevenbones@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

Nothing to see here, folks...

[–] RouxBru@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] RouxBru@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 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:

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[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 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

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month 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

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

There's a setting for it yeah

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

BankID spotted!

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Jo. Proprietary foundation of Swedish society.

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why two clocks and weather-widgets?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why three comments? 😜

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I got a CloudFlare page telling me I was blocked.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Middle widget is mostly calendar events, but because my calendar is now free it swapped to weather by its own.

It works well though, because I don't know where my eyes will land when I start looking at the screen. Sometimes it is the top of the screen, sometimes middle, both will outcomes will tell me about the weather, which is the only reason I look at the screen, honestly.

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[–] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

looks very clean

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[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

does the phone come with bloatware?

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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.

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/xKLKl3H9rro

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nah, this is just a random complaining video for the sake of complaining.

Complaining about the default button size for the panel where you can change button size is just making an unnecessary noise. It is intentionally done like that to force you to change their size so phone becomes yours.

If something is using dots motif, it doesn't mean everything else should automatically use dots, it would look be silly. Different locations on the phone use different visual style, that's okay.

Then it goes into glyph selection and missing actual glyph selection setting.

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