The Nothing Phone 3a Lite Has A Big Battery And Triple-camera System

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The Nothing Phone beingness continues to expand. On Wednesday, nan institution launched nan 4th exemplary successful nan Phone 3 lineup: nan Nothing Phone 3a Lite. (It joins nan Phone 3, Phone 3a and Phone 3a Pro.) The cheapest exemplary successful nan series, nan Phone 3a Lite pairs nan brand's chopped styling pinch coagulated all-around specs for an entry-level handset. However, pinch nan institution saying its non-flagship devices will soon see pre-installed apps and lock-screen ads, location whitethorn beryllium a trade-off.

The Nothing Phone 3a Lite uses a Panda Glass casing complete an aluminum soul frame. As you tin see, it retains immoderate acquainted creation strokes, albeit pared down to lucifer its €249 price. As nan institution describes it, nan handset's "asymmetric, transparent look and nano-coating creates a beautiful equilibrium of matte and gloss." (Poetry!) The telephone ships successful achromatic and achromatic variants. Whether Nothing's creation connection is your cup of beverage aliases not, you'll beryllium hard-pressed to find a much striking and bold creation connection successful a fund model.

The handset includes nan Essential Key, a multi-purpose beingness fastener found connected each Phone 3 bid models. The telephone is IP54-rated for particulate and h2o resistance.

Dramatic position of nan Nothing Phone 3a Lite smartphone. Its notification LED is lit, arsenic nan achromatic telephone floats against a acheronian background.

Nothing honors nan brand's unsocial Glyph strategy (while keeping costs down) by utilizing a notification LED. (Remember those connected early Android phones?) This model's "Glyph Light" supports nan lineup's Flip to Glyph feature, which switches to light-only alerts erstwhile nan instrumentality is look down. The LED tin enactment connected for "key interaction and app notifications" and service arsenic a camera countdown timer. You tin besides customize its ray sequences for calls and circumstantial contacts.

The handset has a hearty 5,000 mAh battery. Nothing advertises 22 hours of YouTube playback aliases 9.5 hours of gaming. It supports 33W accelerated charging, reaching 50 percent successful astir 20 minutes.

The Phone 3a Lite has a triple-camera system. That includes a 50MP superior camera pinch a 1/1.57-inch Samsung sensor. Joining it are an 8MP ultra-wide and a macro lens. The rear camera strategy shoots 4K video astatine app to 30 FPS. On its beforehand is simply a 16MP lens.

Product trading image of nan Nothing Phone 3a Lite. Standard view, pinch nan backmost of nan telephone somewhat obscuring nan beforehand of different one. Its show shows location surface icons and widgets.

The Nothing Phone 3a Lite has much than respectable show specs for a fund phone. It uses a 6.77-inch elastic AMOLED sheet pinch 1,080 x 2,392 solution (387 PPI). It has a 120Hz adaptive refresh complaint and a 1,000Hz touch sampling rate. It tin scope 3,000 nits highest HDR brightness and 1,300 nits outdoor brightness.

The handset's processor is nan 4nm MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro 5G. The 8-core CPU tin scope up to 2.5 GHz. Nothing says nan spot performs amended than nan MediaTek 7200 silicon successful past year's Phone 2a. The institution claims its CPU is 15 percent faster, its GPU supports 20 percent higher FPS, and its NPU delivers 100 percent amended AI performance.

The telephone besides uses a liquid-cooling system, which whitethorn thief during intensive gaming sessions. It ships pinch 8GB of RAM and comes successful 128GB and 256GB retention tiers.

Marketing telephone for nan Nothing Phone 3a Lite. A suave-looking personification holds nan telephone while connected a call, looking nonchalantly complete their enarthrosis toward nan camera.

The telephone runs nan Nothing OS 3.5 UI connected apical of Android 15. The institution says Nothing OS 4.0 will get successful nan first half of 2026.

And that brings america backmost to those trade-offs. Earlier this week, Nothing confirmed to 9to5Google that its strategy moving guardant will see "Lock Glimpse." This rotating lock-screen wallpaper characteristic includes matter pinch links to outer contented hosted by a Chinese advertizing company. (That firm, Boyuan, says it offers a "rich substance of content" to thief its partners "commercialize nan mobile traffic.") Think of it arsenic a somewhat little obnoxious type of lock-screen ads.

Fortunately, Lock Glimpse is disconnected by default successful nan existent Nothing OS 4.0 beta. But if that changes successful nan future, nan worth proposition for Nothing's fund devices could displacement dramatically.

Another cost-subsidizing move is Nothing's (also confirmed) clasp of pre-installed apps. The institution said its "carefully considered" third-party apps are those "most group instal connected time one, for illustration Instagram." In fairness, that's a communal believe among Android telephone manufacturers. But past again, it flies successful nan look of 1 facet of nan brand's stated ethos: clean, bloat-free software. And if business considerations forced concessions successful this area, it makes you mobility really agelong Lock Glimpse will enactment disconnected by default.

We reached retired to Nothing to explain whether these features will make their measurement to nan Phone 3a Lite.

The Nothing Phone 3a Lite is disposable now successful Europe connected nan company website. The 128GB exemplary costs €249 (EU) / £249 (UK). Meanwhile, nan 256GB exemplary will group you backmost €279 (EU) / £279 (UK). We've asked Nothing astir US pricing and availability, and we'll update this communicative erstwhile we perceive back.