The upcoming Nothing Phone (2) has quite recently gotten a definite launch date of 12 July. Coming with it is the company’s new version of custom Android overlay, which will be known as Nothing OS 2.0. While it’s a given that the new phone gets the new mobile operating system, that’s never a guarantee for older phones. But for the Nothing Phone (1), not only will it be getting the new OS update, it will be getting it not too long after the new phone gets unveiled.
On Twitter, Nothing CEO Carl Pei said that users of the Nothing Phone (1) will be getting the Nothing OS 2.0 update by the end of August. That’s less than two months after the launch of the Nothing Phone (2), assuming the company can keep to the promised timeline. Which is commendable, and in more ways than one.
Software support is very important to us. Nothing OS 2.0 will be coming to Phone (1) users by the end of August.
— Carl Pei (@getpeid) June 13, 2023
While phone makers continue to churn out new devices every few months, few have committed to keeping the software on their older devices up to date, minus Apple and iOS for iPhones, naturally. Among the Android phone makers, more and more are promising to provide more than two years of software and security updates, but it’s far from the norm. And these usually take awhile too, especially the further away a device is from its launch year. Nothing promising to give its first phone the update is nice, but not necessarily exciting. But the speed of its rollout, on the other hand, is worth noting.
On the other hand, the company only has two phones to worry about, as well as three TWS buds. So it was probably easier for Nothing to fulfill its promise of three years of software updates compared to its older and larger competitors. Either way, it’s good news for owners of the Nothing Phone (1).
(Source: Carl Pei / Twitter)
