Nothing, founded by former OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, launched its first new product, the Nothing Phone 1, in July. The phone attracted a lot of attention before it was released. The popularity of Nothing Phone 1 on Kuan.com exceeded 190,000, which is close to the popularity of the iPhone 14. 200,000.
With its unique design style, Nothing Phone 1 stands out among the crowd of Android phones, plus the price of 469 euros (about RMB 3200 ), the sales quickly exceeded 200,000 units after listing, and it was called “net red phone” by netizens.
Along with the arrival of Android 13, users are also expecting Nothing to adapt Android 13 for Nothing Phone 1 at first.
However, Carl Pei, the founder of Nothing, was vague when interacting with users and did not respond positively when the Android 13 update would be released, saying that “specifications, features and version number do not represent the whole product”.
Nothing customer service said that Nothing Phone 1 Android 13 update is expected to be launched in the first half of 2023.
Considering that Nothing Phone 1 pre-installed Nothing OS is closer to the native Android, it is obviously a bit late to push it in the first half of next year.
It is reported that this time Android 13 improves the existing privacy control. On Android 13, Google has added more refined permission settings, allowing users to share only specific photos and videos, instead of granting full access to media libraries.
Also, Android 13 will automatically clear clipboard history after a period of time, and users must grant apps permission to send notifications without turning it on by default.
More importantly, Android 13 uses Bluetooth Low Power (LE) audio, a new Bluetooth audio standard with lower latency.
This allows users to hear audio that is near-synchronized with the source, resulting in less latency. With Bluetooth Low Power (LE) audio, users can also enjoy the enhanced audio quality and broadcast audio to multiple devices simultaneously.
