Nothing Phone (1)’s screen isn’t as bright as initially advertised, but could get there in the future

Nothing initially advertised the Phone (1) as being capable of reaching a maximum peak brightness of 1,200 nits, only in certain HDR video scenarios. We don’t test for those, so all we got for our review of the phone was 663 nits in Auto brightness mode, with 466 nits in manual brightness mode.

This didn’t seem out of the ordinary, as all of the currently advertised 1,200+ nit peak brightness rates, for all smartphones, are not achievable in general day to day use, only in some HDR content. But you would expect a phone saying it can go up to a specific value to actually manage to do that,…