Nothing on Tuesday launched its latest flagship telephone after a two-year hole. At an occasion in London, the corporate unveiled the Cellphone (3), which begins at $799 and goals to tackle bigwigs like Samsung and Apple with its differentiated design and options concentrating on tech lovers.
Since releasing Cellphone (1) in 2022 , the GV-backed startup has relied on a clear design to make its telephone stand out from others.
The Cellphone (3) follows that very same design language, nevertheless it introduces a stranger digicam association that forgoes the standard sq. or round alignment discovered on different smartphone units. (If you’re somebody who will get triggered by unaligned parts on web sites or apps, this digicam association would possibly make you mad!)
Nothing has additionally favored arranging LEDs on its again — a characteristic that it calls Glphy. This was all the time considerably gimmicky, however the firm made use of this to indicate you totally different alerts and notifications utilizing the LED lights.
Now, the corporate is changing GIphy with a small round mini LED display, known as Glphy Matrix, on the again of the machine on the prime proper.
This addition shows 16-bit styled patterns, which may supply extra data than the sooner Glphy association.
The corporate can also be releasing mini-apps for this interface, similar to spin the bottle and rock, paper, scissors.
It’s 2025, so the telephone has to incorporate some AI-powered options, too. At launch this contains two options known as Important Area and Important Search.
The corporate first debuted Important Area, an app to avoid wasting screenshots and take notes, on the Nothing Cellphone 3a Professional. Now, Nothing is upgrading this app to allow you to document conferences and look at an AI transcription and abstract.
To make use of the characteristic, you’ll must press the Important key and place the telephone with the display facet down to begin the recording. Whereas this sounds doubtlessly helpful, Nothing doesn’t have an online interface to entry these transcriptions and summaries right now.
Nothing can also be debuting Important Search — a characteristic just like the iPhone’s Highlight search — and infusing it with AI.
This search characteristic means that you can seek for settings, information, or images in your telephone by typing in key phrases.
Plus, you’ll be able to kind in pure language queries to get internet outcomes by urgent a button subsequent to the search bar. That is just like iPhone’s upgraded Siri interface, which is built-in with ChatGPT.
Specs and availability
The brand new smartphone has comparable specs to different corporations’ Android flagships.
This features a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with 1.5K decision, which is protected by Gorilla Glass 7i. The machine is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor, constructed on a 4-nanometer structure.
The trio of cameras all have a 50-megapixel decision, however play totally different roles. The principle digicam has a 1.3-inch sensor, which is 20% greater than Cellphone (2), at a f/1.68 aperture; the periscope telephoto lens provides 3x optical zoom, and 60x digital zoom with AI Tremendous Res Zoom; and the ultra-wide lens offers a 114-degree subject of view.
Nothing can also be upgrading the selfie digicam from 32 megapixels to 50 megapixels.
The Cellphone (3) has a 5150 mAh battery (5,500 mAh in its India variant) with help for 65W wired charging and 15W wi-fi charging.
The corporate stated the telephone will ship with Nothing OS 3.5, which relies on Android 15, and might be up to date to Nothing OS 4.0, primarily based on Android 16, later this yr. It famous that the flagship machine will get 5 years of software program updates and 7 years of safety updates.
The corporate will promote the 256GB mannequin of the Cellphone (3) for $799 and the 512GB mannequin for $899. At this value, the telephone instantly competes with the Samsung Galaxy S25, which was launched at a base value of $799 earlier this yr.
Pre-orders for the machine start on July 4 with basic availability on July 15.
As TechCrunch reported final month, Nothing is making the Cellphone (3) out there within the U.S. typically by its personal web site and Amazon. That is the second machine, after Cellphone (2) the corporate is making broadly out there. Its different finances units have been out there solely by a restrictive beta program.
