All About the Nothing Phone 1
Ahead of the launch of the Nothing phone (1), a new exclusive look at the London-based startup’s first smartphone finally gives some explanation about the unconventional design on the back of the phone. The exclusive look at the phone comes thanks to YouTuber MKBHD, who showed off the Nothing phone (1) from all angles in his new video.
The video also gave a first look at the front of the Nothing phone (1) which has uniform bezels and a top-left aligned punch-hole camera. It also offered an insight into the lighting setup on the back of the phone, which Nothing calls the Glyph Interface.
Nothing phone (1): What is the Glyph Interface?
The Glyph interface on the back of the phone consists of five lightning strips, reportedly made of over 900 LEDs, on the back of the phone which glow either together or in combinations to give users more information about things like charging, notifications and calls when the phone is placed on its back.
This is coupled with a Glyph Interface settings page, where you can configure the lighting strips the way you want. This includes setting up the lights to show you how much your battery has charged, indicating when wireless reverse charging has been engaged and more.
How will the Glyph Interface work?
The interface settings page on the phone (1) will allow users to set various elements pertaining to these lights on the back. These include setting the brightness of the lights themselves, some integrated ringtones which glow up various parts of the light strips in sync with the ringtone music, and also a Flip-to-Glyph feature, which can trigger the Glyph interface to work only when the phone is flipped upside down.
Other features: The Glyph Interface also can be turned off automatically during bedtime mode and there’s also a Google Assistant feedback option that we don’t know much about yet. Our guess is it lights up the back every time Google Assistant is triggered via voice so you know Assistant is listening even when the phone is upside down.
While these are the only features we’re likely to see at launch, Nothing may add more features for the Glyph Interface in the future via software updates, although this is not yet confirmed and we’ll know more during the launch event, which kicks off on July 12.
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