Nothing is starting to roll out a stable Android 13 update for the phone (1)

A month ago, the Nothing Phone (1) received its second Android 13 beta, but the testing period is now over. Nothing from OS 1.5.2 is already rolling out and it includes a stable version of Android 13 as the January 2023 security patch.

Note that nothing is yet to detail the deployment schedule for this stable version. Right now, it looks like only beta program participants are getting the new version. That said, unless some unexpected issues arise, the release should expand to cover all Nothing Phone users.

If you were on the latest public beta, it will be a fairly small update weighing just 157MB. Below is a screenshot of the changelog for Nothing OS v1.5:

Changelog for the stable version of Nothing OS 1.5

Founder Carl Pei tweeted that battery life has improved significantly with v1.5. According to the changelog, the power consumption in standby mode has been reduced by half.

He credits the improvement in software quality to having an in-house team to develop Nothing OS (and it’s a team that previously worked on Oxygen OS for OnePlus). Earlier, Pei shared that Nothing started with just 5 engineers in the mobile team, so the first version of Nothing OS had to be outsourced. Nothing now has a team of 100 people working on the operating system.

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