Nothing OS 5.0 brings a new Glyph Interface app and a more customizable homescreen
Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes.
- Fact 2: The Android 17-based update is launching in open beta on August 26th, starting with the Nothing Phone 3.
- Fact 3: It will eventually also roll out to most of Nothing’s other phones, but a few older devices aren’t getting this update, including the Phone 1, Phone 2, and CMF Phone 1 — the last of which I’ve been using, so unfortunately I won’t get to try out these new features myself.
- Fact 4: There are also a couple of new lockscreen clockfaces in Nothing OS 5.0, including a bubbly “Gooey” design and an information-dense “Micrographics” one.
Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.
With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android’s built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your wallpaper “while Nothing’s predominantly monochrome character stays underneath.” While I like Nothing’s simplified, monochrome app icons, it’s nice to get an option for adding some limited areas of color to the homescreen. Nothing’s launching it as “an additional theme,” so you can keep using the old design if you like.
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Original source: The Verge
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