Nothing Phone 3a 2025:
Nothing recently announced its new phone, the Nothing Phone 3a 2025.
This phone represents a distinctive addition to the mid-range smartphone market, combining a unique design with advanced technical specifications.
Design and display:
From the moment you open the phone’s box, you’ll notice Nothing’s attention to detail. The phone features a transparent glass back design, revealing the carefully arranged internal components, giving it a unique and attractive appearance. This transparent design reflects the company’s philosophy of transparency and innovation.
One of the phone’s most striking design elements is the Glyph LED interface on the back. These lights serve multiple purposes, such as providing light alerts for incoming calls, timer indicators, and interactive volume adjustments. These light accents add a modern and interactive touch to the user experience.
Additionally, the phone features proportionate dimensions and a suitable weight, making it comfortable in the hand and easy to use for extended periods. The phone comes in multiple colors, including black, blue, and white, to suit different user preferences.
It features a 6.77-inch Flex AMOLED display with a display resolution of 1080 x 2392 pixels. The display supports a 120Hz refresh rate, ensuring a smooth viewing experience and fast touch response, whether browsing the internet, watching videos, or gaming.
The screen’s brightness reaches 3,000 nits, ensuring clear viewing even under direct sunlight. Additionally, the display supports HDR10+ technology, enhancing the viewing experience by delivering vivid colors and high contrast.
To protect the screen from scratches and shocks, it’s equipped with Panda-resistant glass, adding an extra layer of durability and strength. The screen’s narrow bezels also maximize the screen-to-body ratio, providing an immersive and enjoyable viewing experience.
Performance and battery:
The phone is equipped with the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 octa-core processor, one of the most powerful processors in the mid-range category. This processor features improved performance and high energy efficiency, contributing to an enhanced user experience.
The phone comes with multiple RAM options of 8 or 12 GB, in addition to internal storage ranging from 128 to 256 GB, providing ample space for storing apps and files.
Regarding daily performance, the phone offers smooth navigation between apps and running heavy games. When testing PUBG, the phone was able to run the game at high settings without any lag or stuttering, reflecting the efficiency of the processor and the improved cooling system.
It has a large 5,000 mAh battery, which ensures long-lasting use without the need for frequent charging. Thanks to the processor’s efficiency and improved power management technologies, the phone can operate for up to two days of moderate use on a single charge.
The phone supports 50W fast charging technology, which allows the battery to be charged to 50% in less than 20 minutes, enough for a full day’s use. However, it should be noted that the phone box does not include a charger, so the user must purchase a compatible charger separately.
camera:
It features a triple camera system that includes:
Main camera
50MP camera with f/1.88 aperture and optical image stabilization, which helps capture high-quality images even in low-light conditions.
zoom camera
With a resolution of 50 megapixels, an f/2.0 lens, and provides up to 3x optical zoom using periscope lens technology, allowing users to capture detailed images of distant subjects without losing quality.
Wide camera
8MP camera with f/2.2 aperture provides a wide viewing angle to capture wider scenes and more details in a single image.
The addition of a periscope zoom lens is a significant step forward in the mid-range phone category, providing an advanced photography experience previously limited to flagship phones.
front camera
32MP, allowing you to capture high-quality selfies with clear details.
f/2.0 aperture helps improve camera performance in low-light conditions.
The camera supports enhanced AI features via the TrueLens Engine, which improves image quality and makes automatic improvements to lighting and contrast.
Price and availability:
It is priced at $379, equivalent to approximately 11,700 Egyptian pounds. Pre-orders for the phone began on March 4, 2025, with shipping commencing on March 11, 2025.
For the Egyptian market, the phone is expected to be available in local stores and online shortly after the global launch, with pricing likely to vary slightly based on local taxes and fees.
It is available in metallic black, white, and blue.