• JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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    12 days ago

    Nothing is pretty much a Chinese OEM…

    The phone is fully designed, engineered, tested, built, and firmware written in China… Pei just has his marketing office in the UK so he can claim it as a UK company. Maybe they give some aesthetic design direction in the UK too. Pei has a history of lying to make his companies seem like something they aren’t.

    (Though they did have a couple of software job postings up recently, so maybe they are trying to slowly change that and do some of the software in the UK)

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      11 days ago

      How is the quality of their phone? Does this person lie about the products themselves or just company?

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        11 days ago

        I’m typing this from a Nothing Phone 2 I got about a year and a half go and I love it. Still gets monthly updates, stills runs fast and is updated to A15. Battery is starting to slip but as long as I’m around 40-50% charge before a trio or going out that’s more than enough. Really like the nothingOS customizability, reminds me of the OG oneplus phones but not what they are currently.

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        12 days ago

        I’ve bought Sony devices for years, but nowadays the cheap ones are shit and the good ones are way too expensive

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          11 days ago

          HMD is a Chinese OEM. 90% of their phones are just off-the-line Foxconn reference designs with almost stock android.

          It is the illusion of choice that happens when companies and IP are massively consolidated into monopolies.

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            10 days ago

            Chinese? They’re headquartered in Finland and even make one model in Hungary