Spez is also part of Nothing

Also, there's a EU flag but the UK has been so stupid to leave the EU.

Yes. It is a Chinese company with american investors with non-technical jobs in the UK to be able to claim "UK company" for marketing.

Their electronics are designed only in China, the devices are programmed only in China, their software is developed in China their technical job postings are all in China for years, their CEO ran a previous Chinese owned brand (lying/misleading about the company back then too) and has worked in the Chinese phone industry for 15 years.

Their CMF line and wearables lines are all ODM'ed through various Chinese companies (for those not aware, OEM is where something is designed by a company and manufactured by another where ODM is where everything is designed by another company and the branded company just gives requirements and some input, I worked previously for an ODM kind of company) and are generic widely-available hardware marked up for brand name recognition.

Their marketing is in the UK, that's about it.

I had an RMA claim with nothing a few days ago and wow, did I hate it. They threw every stone they could find at me, and then managed to "forget" a part of the money they owed me.

Which is a shame, because I really dig their design. But fuck them.

The days of people preferring the US to China are over. I would buy Chinese tech over US tech any day.

Here in Sweden they started with fishing for funding and making press about being a Swedish company. It worked and they got hype. Then they moved to some UK tax haven and now they are apparently based on London.

I'm not very supportive of Nothing.

I'm not too familiar how the company is managed, but I have Nothing 3. It's fine. Nothing special (unless you count the flashing lights on the back), gets the job done but so does pretty much every other android-based slab. At least it isn't full of vendor forced crap like samsung.

The audiophiles will crucify me, but I will accept two USBC ports as consolation.

Like Fairphone they have a cooperation with the open source android fork project eOs/murena

https://e.foundation/e-os/

Seriously, I want a phone that I can hold in one hand, and my thumb can reach the entirety of the screen. My current phone is so bulky and heavy, I can barely reach half the screen with my thumb.

Yea 6 inch is like the limit of a good sized phone for me. Phablets have gone too far.

I highly recommend the e/os for the fairphones. Security wise it's really great! And with the installer not that hard to install (imo)