In Xataka, we’ve already analyzed the Nothing Phone (2) and except that the camera needs some updates, mobile extraordinary touched. I have a clear reflection around the same thing that I’ve been dragging around after trying many phones over the last years: Android Stock is very good, but doesn’t quite work without a good dose of raw power.

Happened to me on Nothing Phone (1), Google Pixel 4a, and on rare occasions Google Pixel 6 with Tensor G1. Android remains a resource demanding system, and if power isn’t enough, sometimes it’s not.

No, Android Stock is not enough

I’ll never forget the weeks I’ve used the Google Pixel 4a and how I described its behavior: “This Pixel is not in the excellence of performance. It works neither under nor overworked like other mid-ranges.” All that Pixel “magic”, that incredible fluidity, that electric animations… Everything is diluted because of the Snapdragon 730. It sometimes hit the butt with some games, apps didn’t open that fast, and I’ve had experience using any other midrange in general.

Something similar happened with the Nothing Phone (1) and the Snapdragon 778G+. It was a brutal quality-price phone, but I remember missing out on the energy that competitors like the POCO F3 have with the Snapdragon 870, even though Nothing OS is still an Android Stock-based ROM.

In this generation, with the move to Qualcomm’s penultimate SoC, performance continued to shine, and the ROM finally shows what it can do. It’s this absolute fluidity in practice that keeps you from being aware of the lack of agility that most current mobiles have, until you try it and compare it directly to another phone.

We are far from needing lighter systems

With Android’s evolution in recent years, it seems that less and less power is needed to achieve optimum performance: we couldn’t go any farther than that. Without going any further, current photo section (with great AI support included) largely depends on the phone’s power: better processor, better ISP.

Games and applications are far from light: we are starting to normalize games larger than 10 GB, and applications are demanding more and more. Hardware-level resources increase and the system evolves based on them: if we have a somewhat fair SoC, it will have a hard time (especially when it comes to obsolescence).

integration AI runs on the chip itselfLike the state of Apple’s Neural Engine or Google’s neural engine for processing data locally, such as real-time translations, Google Assistant, and others, it’s also increasingly demanding capable processors. In short, we are far from being able to recommend it. big horse.

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