Nothing Phone 3a Lite Does not Care if You Have Trypophobia

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

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

Specs-wise, the Phone 3a Lite appears first rate on paper. It has a 6.77-inch AMOLED show with a 120Hz refresh charge; 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 major 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.

Under the hood, the price range telephone is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro 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 effectively the telephone expertise comes along with the Nothing OS 3.5 software program expertise. Nothing likes to tout quick and easy efficiency, and I’m desirous to see how far that goes on a telephone with cut-back specs.

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

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

The Phone 3a Lite is on the market beginning right now, 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 change charge from euros; pricing might be barely larger transformed from British kilos.

For us Americans, Nothing says the Phone 3a Lite “will not be available in North America.” Womp, womp.