A month ago the Nothing Phone (1) received its second beta of Android 13 but now the test period is over. Nothing OS 1.5.2 is already rolling out and includes a stable build of Android 13 a wave as the January 2023 security patch.
Please note that the rollout schedule for this stable release has not yet been detailed. Right now it appears that only beta program participants are getting the new version. That said, unless there are unforeseen issues, the release should expand to cover all Nothing Phone users.
If you were in the last public beta, this will be a fairly small update weighing in at just 157MB. Below is a screenshot of the changelog for Nothing OS v1.5:
Changelog for Nothing OS 1.5 stable release
Founder Carlo Pei tweeted that battery life has improved significantly with v1.5. According to the changelog, standby power consumption has been reduced by half.
He attributes the better quality of the software to having an in-house team to develop Nothing OS (and it’s a team that previously worked on Oxygen OS for OnePlus). Earlier, Pei shared that Nothing started with only 5 engineers in the mobile team, so the first release of Nothing OS had to be outsourced. Nothing now has a team of 100 people working on the OS.
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