Nothing Cellphone 3a Lite Would not Care if You Have Trypophobia

Nothing, the startup behind distinctive transparent wireless earbuds and the polarizing Phone 3 phone, is swimming downstream to the price range market, and it’s not by way of its CMF subsidiary. As teased earlier this week, the corporate has simply announced the Phone 3a Lite, a lower-priced Android cellphone with a 6.77-inch display screen that begins at 249 euros (about $290 USD).

If you happen to didn’t just like the Phone 3’s oddball camera array, it’s possible you’ll not just like the Cellphone 3a Lite. The rear design is toned down, however the triple-lens digicam system and all of the uncovered screws should still set off your trypophobia (that’s concern of a cluster of holes). At the very least you’ll get an aluminum body and an IP54 ranking. There’s additionally an Important Key that makes use of AI to floor all of the screenshots, notes, and audio recordings you’ve saved within the Important House.

Specs-wise, the Cellphone 3a Lite appears respectable on paper. It has a 6.77-inch AMOLED show with a 120Hz refresh fee; the display screen decision is 2,392 x 1,080 and helps 10-bit shade and a couple of,160Hz PWM (pulse width modulation) dimming, which reduces flickering at decrease brightness ranges.

For the cameras, there are three lenses: a 50-megapixel important digicam on the rear, an 8-megapixel ultrawide, and a macro digicam with an unspecified decision. There’s a 16-megapixel selfie digicam on the entrance.

Beneath the hood, the price range cellphone is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Professional chip with an 8-core CPU, 8GB of RAM, and as much as 256GB of storage. And get this—there’s a microSD card slot for storage growth as much as 2TB. Huzzah! What we’ll want to check is how nicely the cellphone expertise comes along with the Nothing OS 3.5 software program expertise. Nothing likes to tout quick and easy efficiency, and I’m desperate to see how far that goes on a cellphone with cut-back specs.

Nothing additionally says the 5,000mAh battery “comfortably lasts nearly 2 days with combined use” and helps 33W quick charging. Funnily sufficient, the Cellphone 3a Lite helps 5W reverse wi-fi charging for juicing up equipment, however not full Qi wi-fi charging for the cellphone itself.

Situated close to the underside of the cellphone’s again panel is a “Glyph Mild.” This spherical LED shouldn’t be the identical Glyph lighting first launched on the Phone 1 after which later scrapped within the newest Cellphone 3 for the Glyph Matrix display screen. It’s extra like a return to the LED notification lights on early Android telephones with a couple of new upgrades. Nothing says you may flip the cellphone over for silent notifications, have the Glyph Mild glow for important contact and app notifications, and flash when counting down for timer-based photographs. The Glyph Mild may also be personalized for gentle sequences synced to Nothing’s personal sounds.

The Cellphone 3a Lite is on the market beginning in the present day, Oct. 29, in white or black fashions. An 8GB RAM + 128GB storage mannequin prices €249 within the EU and £249 within the U.Okay. A model with the identical 8GB RAM and 256GB of storage is €279 within the EU and £279 within the U.Okay. That’s about $290 and $330 USD, respectively, based mostly on the alternate fee from euros; pricing will likely be barely greater transformed from British kilos.

For us People, there’s no phrase on pricing or availability. Not at the same time as a part of a beta program.