Nothing launches its most expensive device, Phone 3

 

Nothing launched its newest flagship phone after a two-year gap. 

At an event in London, the company unveiled the Phone (3), which starts at $799 (N1.28M- using the current exchange rate in Nigeria) and aims to take on bigwigs like Samsung and Apple with its differentiated design and features targeting tech enthusiasts. 

The Phone (3) has same design look, but it introduces a stranger camera arrangement that forgoes the typical square or circular alignment found on other smartphone devices. 

With the well arranged LEDs on its back — a feature that it calls Glyph. This was always somewhat gimmicky, but the company made use of this to show you different alerts and notifications using the LED lights.

Now, the company is replacing Glyph with a small circular mini LED screen, called Glyph Matrix, on the back of the device at the top right.

This addition displays 16-bit styled patterns, which can offer more information than the earlier Glyph arrangement.

The company is also releasing mini-apps for this interface, such as spin the bottle and rock, paper, scissors.

Specifications and availability

The new smartphone has comparable specifications to other companies’ Android flagships.

This includes a 6.67-inch AMOLED screen with 1.5K resolution, which is protected by Gorilla Glass 7i. The device is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor, built on a 4-nanometer architecture. 

The trio of cameras all have a 50-megapixel resolution, but play different roles. The main camera has a 1.3-inch sensor, which is 20% bigger than Phone (2), at a f/1.68 aperture; the periscope telephoto lens offers 3x optical zoom, and 60x digital zoom with AI Super Res Zoom; and the ultra-wide lens provides a 114-degree field of view.

Nothing is also upgrading the selfie camera from 32 megapixels to 50 megapixels.