Nothing on Phone 3a Pro design: “Some people will hate it”

Nothing knows it’s not for everyone.

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You know what some people really hate? that this „revolutionary“ smartphone dosent even have an actually revolutionary Non google image

Like, I would love to use that thing, but there are literally no images for it
- https://doc.e.foundation/devices/tetris
  
  The Nothing Phone (by CMF) has an e/OS image, though it is in alpha and seems to currently have some fairly serious bugs.
  
  https://community.e.foundation/t/official-e-os-builds-for-nothing-cmf-phone-1-tetris/63297
  
  From this post, it seems that the Murena / e/OS people are looking into selling a CMF Phone with e/OS once the support is better, but that probably won't be happening in 2025.
  
  So... yeah, I too would very much appreciate a non google OS on a Nothing Phone, and it is frustrating that a reliable one doesn't exist... but there is one that at least is being worked on.
  
  e OS is everything but secure
  
  While they have no Google services, they still have no way to back up locally, they support Google accounts, and a non encrypted or even privacy oriented cloud provider is integrated deep(er) into their image than it has to be, making me question the integrity of E as a whole
The design is good, but I don't really like the form factor (it's too big). The case is a non negotiable item for me, so curiously it would all depends on the availability of clear cases. I'm waiting to see how is this handled in Phone 3