UPDATE: 2025/08/26 21:39 EST BY KARANDEEP SINGH OBEROI
The creator of one of the images on the stock photo repository, Stills, reached out to Android Police writer Chris Thomas with the following statement: “I am the owner of one of the photos mentioned in this report. I can confirm that my photo was not taken with Nothing Phone. The photo was taken with my mirrorless camera… I am super angry with what Nothing did. They bought my photo.”
The supposed creator also shared a statement for that transaction which shows the end client as “nothing.tech.”
Original article below…
It seems there’s nothing new under the sun. Nearly a decade ago, Huawei P9 marketing materials were caught implying the flagship phone took a picture that actually came from a $4,500 DSLR camera setup. Two years after that, Samsung was outed as doing essentially the same thing.
Now, it appears an aspiring Android trendsetter has taken a page from the same book. According to an anonymous tip sent to Android Police, the demo app on an in-store Nothing Phone 3 display model appears to pass off stock photos as sample pictures taken by what the app calls “our community.”
How the claims stack up
The photo evidence certainly paints a picture
The anonymous tipster — who said they’re located somewhere in Oceania — passed along a screen recording of someone scrolling through what looks convincingly like potential Nothing Phone 3 marketing materials. The video opens with a tap on a camera section of the phone’s demo app, which has an explanation of the lenses and goes through some of their capabilities. A card appears onscreen, and is titled #WithNothing with a subheading of, “Judge for yourself. Here’s what our community has captured with the Phone (3).”
There’s one problem. Well, five of them: each of the images pretty clearly corresponds to an image hosted on a stock photo repository called Stills.
The apparent sources of image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, and image 5.
On the other hand, there is a different sort of problem. Android Police doesn’t currently have access to any Nothing Phone 3 display models in Oceania. In fact, I’m not sure any such display models exist within reasonable driving distance of my location. So we can’t yet confirm if these marketing materials are authentic. We’ve reached out to Nothing with this information, but have not yet heard back.
We might not ever know what exactly happened. What we do know is the Nothing Phone 3 didn’t take any of those images. Either way, we’ll update the story if we learn more.
- SoC
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4
- RAM
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12/16GB
- Storage
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256/512GB
- Battery
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5,150 mAh
Nothing Phone (3) is the first “true flagship” from the London-based brand. It comes with a 6.67-inch OLED display, a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 processor, triple 50MP rear cameras, and a 5500mAh battery. It retains Nothing’s transparent design language and comes with an upgraded Glyph Matrix.
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