Released in July 2022, the Nothing Phone (1) has just received its first major update to Android 13. A stable version which greatly improves the battery, but which is not yet available for everyone.
Announced in December for January 2023, the Nothing Phone (1) update to Android 13 will have finally waited another month before starting to be deployed. Several users of the Reddit social network reported receiving the update on Thursday, February 16. This is the first of three major updates promised by the manufacturer.
The extra work time on this version, however, seems to have paid off: according to Nothing, battery consumption has been greatly improved.
A better battery, thanks to a better team
This version 1.5.2 of Nothing OS therefore follows two betas of Android 13 on Nothing Phone (1). If the first version had been marked in particular by a loading speed of applications reduced by half, it is the battery consumption at rest which has this time been improved by 50%. At the beginning of January, the second beta already noted an improvement in battery life.
An optimization work that seems to make the founder of the brand, Carl Pei, quite proud, who congratulated the team dedicated to Nothing OS on Twitter, Tuesday, February 14. Two days later, he justified this radical improvement in the battery by the fact that he now relied on an internal team at Nothing for his software, which was not the case when the Phone came out (1 ).
Big difference now, having our own team who previously delivered Oxygen OS together vs. an outsourced team who don’t really care about the success or failure of our company. https://t.co/tsersO0WDS
—Carl Pei (@getpeid) February 16, 2023
Welcome customization options
Among the other improvements since December, we can also note a slight acceleration of the speed of unlocking by fingerprint and the improvement of the automatic brightness algorithm.
But above all, while we noticed a lack of personalization during our long-term test of the Phone (1), the Nothing OS 1.5.2 update also brings several personalization options: new ringtones created to ring at the same rhythm as the luminous patterns on the back of the phone, new application shortcuts on the lock screen and more minimalist wallpapers.
With a month’s delay, the application also brings the January 2023 Android security update.
Official release… for open beta members
If this version marks the official release of Android 13 on Nothing Phone (1), the brand nevertheless plays the card of caution by limiting its access to members of the open beta for the moment, “as a thank you for participatingclarifies the patch notes.
If you are one of the lucky ones, you can install Android 13 via the “System updatein the phone settings. For others, the update will roll out gradually over the next few weeks, subject to major bugs not being discovered.
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