Nothing has unveiled its best smartphone to date, the Nothing Phone 3. It features a couple of high-end specs, a bolder design, and its latest Glyph Matrix interface.
Let’s start with the most interesting upgrade. The Nothing Phone 3 gets a circular screen on the back that consists of 489 LEDs that show dot-matrix style animations to show notifications, calls, messages, and even pixelated photos, a few dedicated games, Glyph Mirror, and Solar Clock.
This Glyph display sits on the top right of the elaborately designed rear panel — an all-out expression of Nothing’s design language. There’s also a dedicated button on the rear that lets you cycle through the screen.
We also have the triple 50-megapixel cameras. It is led by a 1/1.3-inch main sensor with optical image stabilization.
The other 50-megapixel sensor measures at 1/2.75-inches and sits behind a periscope lens with a 3x optical zoom, 70mm equivalent, and macro capabilities.
We then have a 50-megapixel ultra-wide lens. Another 50-megapixel selfie camera is on top of the 6.67-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen with a high 120Hz refresh rate, 4,500-nit peak brightness, and 2160 PWM dimming.
It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset instead of the proper Snapdragon 8 Elite flagship chip. You can get it with up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. We also have a 5,150mAh silicon-carbon battery with support for 65W and 15W wired and wireless charging, respectively.
Nothing ships it with Android 15-based Nothing OS 3.5 and has promised to set 5 years of Android upgrades and 7 years of security patches.
The Nothing Phone 3 has an SRP of USD799 (~Php45,000) for the 12GB/256GB and USD899 (~Php50,700) for the 16GB/512GB. Release details in the Philippines are yet to be known.
Nothing Phone 3 Specs
- Android 15, Nothing OS 3.5 (up to 5 years Android upgrades, 7 years security patches)
- Dual SIM, Dual Standby
- 6.67-inch LTPO OLED display, 2800 x 1260 pixel resolution, ~460ppi
- 120Hz refresh rate, 1000Hz Touch Sampling Rate, 2160Hz PWM dimming
- HDR10+, 10-bit
- 4,500-nit peak brightness
- Corning Gorilla Glass
- 3.21GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 octa-core processor
- 12GB/16GB RAM
- Adreno 825 GPU
- 256GB/512GB internal storage, non-expandable
- 50-megapixel front camera
- 50-megapixel (f/1.68, 1/1.3″, PDAF, OIS) + 50-megapixel (f1/2.6, 1/2.75″, OIS, 3x telephoto,macro) + 50-megapixel (ultra-wide) rear cameras, LED flash
- In-display fingerprint scanner
- Stereo speakers
- IP68 dust and water resistant
- HSPA+, 4G LTE, 5G
- WiFi 7, tri-band
- Bluetooth 6.0
- dual-band A-GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, QZSS, NavIC, SBAS, BDS
- NFC
- USB-C
- Dimensions: 160.6 x 75.59 x 8.99mm
- Weight: 218g
- Colors: Black, White
- 5,150mAh silicon-carbon battery, 65W wired, 15W wireless, 7.5W reverse wired, 5W reverse wireless charging