# Nothing Phone

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/nothing-phone/

6 people recommended Nothing Phone in Hacker News comments, 5 had mixed feelings and 8 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 12 months, in 4 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

3 of the 6 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe”.

**Verdict:** More people criticize it than recommend it. Clean, lightly customized Android phone that many find good value. Critics say its hardware trails flagships and its security patches arrive months late.

Summary written by Claude from the comments below.

## What people warn about

- Late custom ROM support (2 comments in the sample): "Nothing phones had no LineageOS support until recently" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758767)) "Nothing Phone 1 took ages to get LineageOS support" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852307))
- Price high for what it offers (2 comments in the sample): "Even the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro is getting close to the price of an S26 here" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936625)) "Not quite worth its high price" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933860))

## Why people recommend it

- Open, bare-bones software (2 comments in the sample): "Nothing Phone comes probably the closest to bare bones at least what I have come across." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629846)) "Nothing already seems to be one of the most "open" devices today" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935405))

## Other smartphones people recommend

- [Apple iPhone](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iphone/): 438 recommend, 190 mixed, 789 criticize
- [Fairphone](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fairphone/): 110 recommend, 42 mixed, 94 criticize
- [iPhone 13 mini](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iphone-13-mini/): 105 recommend, 32 mixed, 44 criticize
- [Apple iPhone Pro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/iphone-17-pro/): 90 recommend, 45 mixed, 138 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://nothing.tech/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Nothing Phone", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nothing-phone/ (6 recommend, 5 mixed, 8 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.