Nothing Gets Exposed For Passing Off Stock Images As Phone 3’s Camera Samples, One Of Them Was Captured Before The Device’s Launch

Smartphone makers often hype their product’s imaging proficiency by sharing camera samples allegedly captured by their flagship device, but you can imagine the firestorm that ensues once that company gets caught blatantly lying. This is precisely what happened with Nothing, claiming that some shared camera samples were captured by the Phone 3. In reality, those images were taken by some professional photographers, and what is even more shameful is that, after a bit of digging around, it was found that two of those snaps were taken even before the Phone 3 even launched.

A total of five stock images were claimed to be captured by the Phone 3; EXIF data reveals that two of them were taken in 2023, which is before Nothing launched its flagship

A photographer who had taken one of the images anonymously reached out to The Verge, mentioning that the photograph was not captured by the Phone 3. Instead, Nothing had purchased the image license through the Stills stock photo marketplace. The media outlet confirmed this claim by investigating the EXIF file for the anonymous photographer’s image, and confirmed that it was snapped in 2023, which is before the Phone 3 was even officially announced.

Roman Fox, another photographer who captured the car headlight below, confirmed to Android Authority that, once again, Nothing paid for his image, and it was captured back in 2023 using a Fujifilm XH2s camera. After the company’s lies caught up to it, Nothing’s spokesperson made the statement, ’Accuracy in how we represent our product capabilities is important to us. Phone (3) demo units are being updated to feature only images captured with Phone (3)’ but the words do not display the company’s guilt.

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Nothing’s co-founder, Akis Evangelidis, has said that the stock images featured on live demo units of the Phone 3 were placeholders that should have been updated. The executive also says that the company is ‘actively rectifying’ the situation, while also mentioning that being caught red-handed was due to ‘an unfortunate oversight’ and that Nothing had ‘no ill intent.’

Regardless of the superior imaging prowess of the Phone 3, it is disappointing to see that Nothing would resort to these tactics in an effort to gain some form of advantage against the competition. Given that companies have been caught and embarrassed publicly before, you would think that, having been in the business for several years, Nothing would learn not to get involved in these shortcuts.

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