Nothing OS 3.0 Open Beta 2 update is rolling out with these features
Nothing OS 3.0 Open Beta 2 is now available for Phone 2 and Phone 2a users, the company has announced. Users can experience the new Android 15-based operating system (OS) before its public rollout in December and try out more features such as shared widgets, smart drawer improvements, refined animations and camera improvements. This release builds on the rollout of the Nothing OS 3.0 Open Beta 1 update introduced earlier this month.
Notably, the beta program launched in October with the Phone 2a and will be available for other devices such as the CMF Phone 1 later this year.
Nothing OS 3.0 Open Beta 2 features
In a community afterNothing has announced that the OS 3.0 Open Beta 2 update will add more features to the already extensive list of introductions with the first beta. This includes a shared widgets feature that allows users to see another user’s widgets on their home screen and interact with them through comments. This feature is exclusive to interactions between Nothing smartphones. Animations for Quick Settings have been refined, including those for Bluetooth, tile resizing, swipe interactions, and tile transitions.
The Carl Pei-led company introduced a Smart Drawer powered by artificial intelligence (AI) with the Nothing OS 3.0 Open Beta 1, which can automatically arrange apps into separate category folders based on usage. The Open Beta 2 is said to make this feature more accurate, while also adding an auto-sort feature.
Nothing Phone 2 and Phone 2a users can also benefit from camera improvements with the update. It is claimed to deliver improved stability when switching between camera modes, an upgraded HDR algorithm for better image quality, an optimized portrait mode, and improved brightness when using Ultra HDR mode.
Nothing OS 3.0 Open Beta 2 brings other visual and performance updates. There’s now AI-powered selection and prioritization of the commonly used apps, support for a refresh rate of up to 90 frames per second (fps) in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, an onboarding guide for new users of pop-up views, and other general bug fixes and performance improvements.
