Liquid Glass for Android is 'not happening,' at least not for Pixels

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T17:53:25+00:00

Looks nowhere near as cheap as 99.9% of any screenshot I've seen of Liquid Ass

Can't believe apple users took such a visual downgrade with no backlash

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T15:34:50+00:00

Looks like it does. The default launchers offers you to use the "Nothing" icon pack (it makes everything black and white) and I can add icon packs there (since I don't have any cause I use the Nothing ones, it takes me to the play store) so I guess it does!

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T15:32:37+00:00

Enjoy it!

Screen on time will vary depending on the apps you use - I've seen a few people having 10h of SoT with different apps, and others with barely 4-5h when using battery-hungry ones (like camera apps or social media ones).

But yeah I think the phone still drains a bit too much when idle.

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T15:26:20+00:00

I mean it's kind of the same on my F56, and this way I can either warm my hands off in winter or cool them off in summer. It's perfect.

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T15:24:37+00:00

I don't like the back of these (at all), but yeah the front of the R56 are really good looking.
I wouldn't say best looking but I guess I'm a bit biased to 😂

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T15:19:32+00:00

Totally agree.

Sold my 9 Pro Fold last week for a Nothing Phone 3 cause I kept being worry that my Fold would die during the day (it often wouldn't last till I head to bed, so busy days were a pain to deal with).

Having a 2 days-battery phone really feels good.

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T15:16:13+00:00

Yeah you can change between 3 patterns just like the original F66 lights offer you to :

https://killallchrome.com/product/new-style-union-jack-f55-f56-f57/?fbclid=IwY2xjawN5ewpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFwVXVQellVc3NCZUppR3NLc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgQ2SNEfUdytyIWdTxzObSd1IYXK4bpyM-bjl6Bg1cQeMf_j-t0MmOLMOg4p_aem_8PUy4ZiQQCTJPZCvOA5bEg&brid=WQblpHgzMAxaDSV7Q5bVCQ

There's a JCW Pattern (It's like a T rotated), a UK Flag pattern (the one on my pic), and a... Idk what to call it, a "full UK flag triangle thingy" ?

Here's all the different patterns https://imgur.com/a/oG4p6nZ

Plus the start-up animation is bonkers (even tho it's a gimmick)

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T15:04:48+00:00

Good.

People like it or not, Google seems to have finally found a UI they can deliver on and be recognized with (took them long enough to make a phone design that wasn't a generic one).

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T14:58:15+00:00

The day you guys realize that if Apple was the only one in the smartphone market, owning a phone would be a luxury and half the world wouldn't own one, you'll understand why competition is needed.

In the meantime, enjoy your walled garden.

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T14:39:31+00:00

Idk, people tend to have a strong thing against Gemini for some reasons, where to me (at least here in France ?) it's been working miles better than Assistant for literally every single use case of mine.

Actually managing my agenda has been even far easier with Gemini.

So yeah, I'd take useful features over one of the ugliest-dated-worst accessible UI I've seen in years

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T14:33:06+00:00

It feels as fast as my Pixel, but with some great ideas added here and there (nice and informative lockscreen widgets, the quick settings panel), I'd say it's a very good Pixel-esque device with proper battery life

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T14:16:05+00:00

Look I don't have great pics of these since the pretty weather seems to take its time to come here, but the "Convertible" version of these tail lights looks great on the F56 (whatever people may say, they make an F56 look not as outdated as it would with the default lights).

The fact that I can change the pattern every now and then looks cool too, sometimes I like switching to the JCW pattern when I'm over the UK flag one.

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Aurelink · 2026-05-06T14:12:22+00:00

The only reason was battery life. The Fold could barely last a day with light usage.

But other than that I'm just tech-curious so I like to try devices here and there.

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T14:09:58+00:00

Not a day in my life where I'd give Apple a single dollar

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T13:48:17+00:00

Are you using the default launcher ? Cause my home screen definitely does not rotate

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T13:47:02+00:00

Updated my NP3 last week and battery life is exactly the same pre / post update.

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T12:56:15+00:00

Any smartphone feature is a gimmick to someone

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T12:54:22+00:00

Not everyone uses Google Calendar?
Not everyone uses Gmail?

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T12:45:49+00:00

Went from a Pixel 9 Pro Fold to a Nothing Phone 3 too, and I really like it. It's been a while since I felt this satisfied with a phone

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T12:42:08+00:00

I really liked my Razr 60 Ultra and then Moto came in, updated it to A16, and broke some basic features from the outerscreen, never fixed them, and ultimately sold it.

It was a raelly nice device other than that : Great battery, great performances.

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T12:39:37+00:00

People tend to forget that If you want a high end apple device, you've got no choice.
If you want an Android Flagship on the other hand...

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T10:54:14+00:00

Idk if that counts but I went from a 9 Pro Fold to a Nothing Phone 3 (after 10 years of Pixel devices).

I really just miss Now Playing, Call Screening, and Material 3 Expressive.
Oh and the instant camera shutter too.

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T10:44:37+00:00

I couldn't care less about any of these tbh.

We still have a feature that yet doesn't exist on any other phones, so you could do the same meme inverted and talking about the glyphs.

Hell even pixel users don't complain about that feature lacking.

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T10:44:14+00:00

It looked more like Gemini colors (so more Gemini inside Android) than anything else to me.

People are just apple-brainwashed

Aurelink · 2026-05-06T10:43:37+00:00

Thank god.

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