INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Nothing, a startup from OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has announced its first flagship phone since 2023
The company bills its new Nothing Phone 3 as a "true flagship" device, but it doesn't have the absolute best hardware you can get in a
Neither does it have the highest price, clocking in at a mere $799
That's shaping up to be a good value, but it's also the highest price yet for a Nothing phone.A few weeks back, Nothing teased the end of
its trademark Glyph interface
Indeed, the Nothing Phone 3 doesn't have the illuminated panels of the company's previous phones
Instead, it has a small dot "Glyph Matrix" LED screen
It's on the back in the upper right corner, opposite the camera modules
Nothing has a few quirky games and notification icons that will flash on the screen, and it can be used as a very low-fi selfie mirror
Nothing is committed to the new Glyph screen, going so far as adding a button on the back to control it.The rest of the design maintains the
Nothing aesthetic, featuring a clear glass panel with a visible mid-frame and screws
However, the company does promise the Phone 3 will be a little more compact than the 2023 Phone 2
The new device is 18 percent thinner and has symmetrical 1.87-millimeter bezels around the 6.67-inch OLED screen
That panel supports 120 Hz refresh and has a peak brightness of 4,500 nits, which is competitive with the likes of Samsung and
OnePlus.Nothing has continued releasing budget phones during its break from high-end devices
While the Nothing Phone 3 is supposedly five times faster than the Phone 3a, it probably won't be able to keep up with the fastest phones on
Rather than the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite, the Nothing Phone 3 has a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, which was released earlier this year to
expand premium silicon features to slightly cheaper phones
It doesn't have Qualcomm's new Oryon CPU cores, and the GPU is a bit slower
However, it'll be faster than most devices in its price range
The specs are rounded out with 12GB or 16GB of RAM and 256GB or 512GB of storage.
