Personally think Nothing should stick to the 3a/3aPro price segment. They do well there in terms of price:spec:styling:software balance. Trying to compete in the higher end and they will lose out in one form or another in the eyes of spec people.

I do like their software — if my router and wireshark logs from testing a friend’s 3a Pro are anything to go by, Nothing OS is a lot better than most Android makers in terms of privacy* (excluding all the phoning home done by Google services, obviously) — and their security update promises seem to be in line with most competitors, but they are definitely not ready for the upper end of the market yet.

Currently searching for a replacement ‘dirty’ daily device (anything with Meta and Google apps installed is considered dirty in my book), and since a Pixel with GrapheneOS has too many unknowns in terms of banking or insurance app compatibility (also because Pixel hardware reliability is a bit crap in my experience), I’m looking for the next best thing. If I go with Nothing, it will probably be a 3a or 3a Pro. Won’t even bother with this so called ‘flagship’ model.

*although that Nothing Chats security fiasco still leaves me a bit suspicious of them

yea the autohdr is 'permenant' for now, hopefully next update can disable it. current workaround is to create a new preset with autohdr disabled.

from what I experienced with call recording. it was trying to transcribe. which is hmm... cos I was actually testing out the call recording to bank CS. I dont want AI to transcribe my personal details, but Im sure my personal details are floating in the many databases online.

on sound front, I listen to spotify on car radio and iem's in office so its big part of the experience for me.  I mst say the sound processing is a bit flat for me. still need to get to tweaking. prev phone had many features baked in so no need to hunt for third party.

another strange thing I noticed is that  the AOD clock. the beautiful stock one seems to get replaced by stock android one... not sure how to trigger it yet. needs more observations.