Nothing might take time to bring Android 13 to its phone (1), but the company can’t be blamed for not releasing many small updates to the device in the meantime. Today the last one came out and it is labeled Nothing OS 1.1.6.
This brings with it support for Google’s AR Core and 5G on Jio in India. For the camera, the update promises sharper videos with improved stability and an always-on recording light by default. The startup experience should feel smoother, the battery status displayed is more accurate, and the NFC sound effect has been updated.
The maximum brightness when viewing HDR content has been increased, but it is not clear to what level. In August there was some controversy over the panel’s maximum brightness, which was advertised as 1,200 nits but never reached that peak.
Nothing has therefore made it clear that the hardware is capable of doing this, but in the service of “a balanced user experience with regards to heat and battery consumption” it has been limited in the software to 700 nits. It appears that this limit has been completely removed with the latest update, or at least slightly increased.
Finally, there are a couple of Glyph related improvements: an updated and “more responsive” Flip to Glyph animation, as well as the glyph reload light now “in sync with the sound effect”. Of course, the usual unnamed “general bug fixes” are also mentioned.
The update could be deployed in stages as it usually happens, which means it may take a few days for it to get to all drives in the wild. It’s a 62MB download when you get it.
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