Nothing’s Phone 3a Pro is a stylish, almost flag -based experience for $ 459
There is still nothing phone 3, instead of choosing to make a side move not one but two new mid -range devices, The Nether Phone 3A and, intriguing, 3A Pro. Reassuring that nothing continues to design phones, unlike anything else there. His retro-becoming designer aesthetics for exhibitions, but not hardware in the back of phones, as well as spot fonts, animations and software, are back.
The hardware design remains the biggest power of nothing. I ask me about The Nother Thone more than I, when I use the most iPhone, the Samsung folders or something else. It’s just differentS The Phone 3A series already has a glass pad (upgraded with polycarbonate) and you can still see screw fittings, electronics and return of Nothing’s Glyph lighting. The 3A phone is rated with IP64, adding better protection against unfair water sprays and liquid incidents this year.
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Nothing is overwhelmed once again the outdoor hardware, and the Glyph lighting details are all at the top of the phone, touring the camera device. On the Phone 3A Pro, the courtesy of a new periscope sensor capable of 3x optical increase, a significant circular camera protrudes at the back.
If you think the 3A Pro camera module seems Chunky, he also adds approximately 10 grams to his weight compared to the basic nothing phone 3A. But for obsessive cameras, only one of these phones will get your attention. (Although the blue iteration of nothing phone 3A is Gorgeous.)
The Thone Phone 3A Pro 50-megapixel telephoto sensor can extend to 3x optical increase, but also includes a lot of usable, in my early testing without losing a cut 6x increase. There is also a 50MP primary sensor with F/1.88 lens and a two -pixel phase phase detection (PDAF). Nothing is packed in an ultra-shaped 8MP sensor with a 120-degree visual field.
3A Pro also has a telemacro mode and can combine the focus of 15 cm (5.9 inches) with an increase in telephoto. This is a function that makes macro photography far more useful – and yet rarely on phones outside ChinaS
The main 50MP camera of the base model 3A has a one -cysele PDAF, but otherwise retains the same specifications of the main camera. The telephoto extends to 2x optical increase and a third ultravide 8MP camera.
While we are going to explore the camera deeply in our review, my early impressions are positive. The images are crunchy and nothing has a cure filters that look good. I particularly like the effect of frozen glass, which does nothing to customize wallpaper.
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Nothing says that his Truelens Engine 3.0 combines tone mapping with AI with Ultra XDR, which he jointly developed with Google to set up photos. It includes an outbreak of 8 raw images that are all treated together to adjust the brightness of each pixel up to five times. Image processing seems to be tilted to shock, high control photos and video.
3A Pro phone and phone are otherwise identical to the specifications. Compared to Nothing phone 2ABoth new devices have a larger 6.77-inch AMOLED LTPS display, now using Panda glass rather than Gorilla Glass on Corning. As you can expect from most (But not all) Phones, 3A has always a display included, can reach 120Hz refresh rates and now hits 1300 nits, making it brighter than the company’s last phone.
And once again the phones have a large 5000mAh battery and a quick charge of up to 50W. According to nothing, it means that it has to take less than an hour to fully load the device while you need to be able to get halfway there in 19 minutes. One of the only parts of the Nothing Phone 3a series that suggests that they are not quite at the flagship level is their processor: Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. We will put this chip through our steps in our review, but it should help with your own PECADILLOS software, such as Truelens Engine. The company says CHIP makes a 3A series of 92 percent better for AI processing by its predecessor.
In nodding to both his story on OnePlus and the recent trend of Adding buttonsNothing adds its main key to the phone 3A, on the right edge below the power button. It is strange that there is a different coverage over the other processed buttons at 3A and feels a little more cheaper. He works as an AI assistant on other smartphones, with Samsung’s Gemini AI starting apparatus, although AI hooks come later. One press will capture and send a screenshot content to Nothing’s Essential Space App, while the longer press will start recording a voice note. You can also press twice to run directly into the Essential Space app, which is a storage space for all these collections.
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Nothing uses the same AI tricks we have seen elsewhere; It just simplifies them. The 3A phone will rewrite your voice notes, automate reminders and even describe your photos and screenshots if necessary. As I juggle work commitments, other writing projects, life and everything else, it’s an intriguing soup of AI tools, storage and automation, everything in one place.
This also does not seem to be equivalent to the Android Labs setting. The company irritates further functionality, such as focused search, flip-writing, camera capture (using the main key while in the camera application), the intelligent collections of all your notes and others. The notes seem to be equivalent to how Google Photos gives you quick and easy access to the images and videos you are looking for.
With the broader Phone 3A Pro software, nothing is fun. Despite the training curve in places, this is playful. The icons, fonts and animations in nothing take Android 15 add a refreshing touch of personality to the sea of ​​the unity of the smartphone.
There may be a few too many creative chefs, as nothing touches decorative touches with what I guess the gain fonts and Google menus are. Some of the icons are also difficult to distinguish. After powering the phone 3A for the first time, a pixelated face appeared on the home screen. I would touch it and realized that he was doing nothing. It turns out that this is not an attempt to display the time on your screen – but it doesn’t have to be a 2×2 widget.
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Other nice touches include a monochrome theme (on these monochrome phones), removing the application label and an intelligent application drawer, which denotes similar applications together for clearer navigation.
Having in the US will come through a beta program as in previous years. The 3A ($ 379) phone is now available for pre -order now in gray, black and blue, such as devices landing on March 11, while the 3A Pro phone ($ 459) in Black and Gray, leaves on March 11 and starts on March 25th. In the United Kingdom, the Nothing Store in London will be one of the first places to offer the phone directly from 11am GMT on March 8th.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/nothings-phone-s-s-s-slish-lest-lass-xperience- For
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