A couple of months ago, Nothing, a new technology venture from OnePlus co-founder Carl Pie confirmed the brand’s upcoming Nothing Phone (1) smartphone. It was also revealed that the phone would be running the company’s own Nothing OS.

Nothing also decided to give users of select smartphones a glimpse of the upcoming Nothing OS through a custom launcher for Android phones, named Nothing Launcher, which is available for some smartphones in the Beta phase.

Now, the availability of Nothing Launcher is being expanded, and the application is now supporting all smartphones running the Android 11 or above version of the operating system. This is a wide range of supported apps compared to its previous support for only Pixel devices, OnePlus devices, and the Samsung Galaxy S21 lineup.

The updated version of the launcher comes with several minor tweaks, including the ability to quickly change the wallpaper with an on-screen pop-up, with a direct link to Nothing’s wallpapers and ringtones. There’s also a dedicated Nothing Launcher icon on the home screen with this update and a new set-up page upon the first launch.

Nothing Launcher includes several tweaks and tuning, including what the company refers to as “Max Icons” and “Max Folders,” allowing users to press and hold app icons or folders and increase the space taken on the home screen.

It also offers a series of unique wallpapers, weather, clock widgets, and ringtones but it lacks some of the features, like support for the Google Discover feed which is now becoming more commonplace on various OEM skins of Android.

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Recently, Nothing gave a sneak peek at what the public should expect from the Nothing Phone(1) by publishing the Nothing Launcher Beta on the Google Play Store last week.

However, despite all the hype for the launcher, the product has only received sub-par reviews on Google Play Store. But the most concerning flaw of the Nothing Launcher is that the Nothing Launcher could hypothetically get you detained at airport security with its included ringtones, and here’s how.

Upon downloading the Nothing Launcher, besides changing the icon packs and the home screen, the Nothing Launcher also changes your wallpaper background, your alarms, ringtones, and notification sounds.

Although the provided launcher wallpapers(Hand.png and Face.png) look rather unsettling, they will not get you into much trouble in public spaces. The trouble lies within the ringtones and notifications sounds.

If you would like to experience the ringtones and notification sound effects of the Nothing Launcher yourself, we have prepared a Dropbox link below.

Dropbox link to Nothing Launcher Ringtone, Notification Sound Effect HERE.

Let’s start with the Ringtone, named “Nothing_ing_1.ogg”. The ringtone is an 11-second audio clip that is to be played on loop when you receive an incoming call. If you have a more innocent mind, the audio clip would sound like a woodpecker pecking on a tree bark. 

However, the folks at airport security may not assume the same, as the ringtone playing at full volume resembles the soundwave frequencies of 4 muffled consecutive assault rifle gunshots that could lead security to assume there was a shooting happening, leading to panic at the airport when in reality, you were receiving an incoming call.

The worst hypothetical case scenario was that security found that you were the culprit in charge of the mass panic, and you could get detained at the airport for pulling a prank of this scale that had misled the national security defence force into thinking there was a terrorist attack.

The notification sound on the other hand, named “Nothing_notification_1.ogg” is a shortened version of the ringtone, which swaps out the 4 shots for 1 shot. If you were to receive multiple notification sounds at once at full volume, it would be as if someone thought you had a gun in your pocket.

Since the Nothing Launcher is still in its Beta development, Nothing should take note of users’ feedback to refine the Nothing software experience before the launcher is officially preinstalled on Nothing’s first-ever smartphone, the Nothing Phone(1).

The Nothing Phone(1) is due for release in the Summer of 2022 and for more updates on Chinese tech companies, stay tuned for our coverage here at Gizmochina.

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Nothing in its March event promised the release of Nothing launcher this month. Now, the Nothing launcher is officially available to download. With the launcher’s release, we get a taste of what we’d expect from the upcoming Nothing Phone (1).

Nothing Launcher is currently available on Play Store and you can install it to experience the awaited dot-matrix User Interface. However, only select devices can install the launcher and use it. As of now, Google Pixel 5, Pixel 6, Samsung Galaxy S21 series, and the Galaxy S22 series models are supported. It appears that the brand is keeping up to its premium experience promise as all of these devices are flagships.

If you are a OnePlus owner, do not worry, as the brand has also confirmed support for OnePlus models in the future. Also, some users tried Installing the launcher on the OnePlus 10 Pro and surprisingly it’s working.

The Nothing Launcher is currently in the beta stage and offers only the basic features. Right when you install and set it up, you’ll see the Nothing Wallpaper that we saw in the event last month.

In addition to this, the font gets changed to the dot matrix-style font. There are currently two widgets in the launcher that appear to be automatically set on the home screen. There’s the weather widget and the clock widget. The launcher also brings elegant-looking app folders.

Apart from this, there’s not much to look at in the launcher, at the moment. Since it is currently in the first beta stage, we expect more features to be added in the forthcoming beta versions.

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