Nothing CEO Carl Pei revealed on Wednesday that the company plans to ship a beta version of Nothing OS based on Android 13 by the end of the year. A new report had already revealed that the company is aiming to release the stable Android 13 update in the first half of 2023. Nothing is Phone 1 for the first time in the smartphone segment by the company. The smartphone was launched earlier this year in July running Android 12-based Nothing OS.
Pei announced via Twitter that it has no plans to rush the update at the expense of user experience. He revealed that the company aims to ship the beta version of Nothing OS based on Android 13 by the end of the year. Nothing Phone 1 users can expect a stable build in early 2023.
While we are working round the clock, we will not rush on updates at the cost of user experience. This also applies to Nothing OS based on Android 13, where we aim to ship the beta version by the end of the year with a full release in early 2023.
— Carl Pei (@getpeid) 24 August 2022
he went ahead Claimed That nothing is “looking to create some fun and interesting software experience.” However, information about the upcoming features on the company’s Android 13 update was not revealed.
To recall, the Nothing Phone 1 was launched earlier this year in July on Android 12-based Nothing OS out-of-the-box. The company has assured its users that it will offer 3 years of Android updates and 4 years of security patches (every 2 months).
When we reviewed the Nothing Phone 1, we found it to be devoid of bloatware and only have Google’s suite of apps by default. Nothing OS includes a number of unique animations and we found the overall software experience to be great.
In addition, Pei recently announced that Nothing is gradually rolling out OS version 1.1. The update brings several camera improvements, including improved processing time for Night Mode and HDR. Color saturation is claimed to be richer than when using the ultra-wide camera. In addition, image noise is reduced and sharpness is increased when using the zoom. This update also includes other performance optimizations and bug fixes.
