Nothing debuted its latest flagship, the Phone (3), on Tuesday after a two-year hiatus. Unveiled at a London event, the device starts at $799 and is positioned to challenge major players like Samsung and Apple with its distinctive design and tech-focused features.
Transparent Design Sets Nothing Apart Since Phone (1) Launch
Since the launch of Phone (1) in 2022, the GV-backed startup has used a transparent design to differentiate its devices from competitors.
The Phone (3) sticks with Nothing’s signature design but features an unconventional camera layout, breaking away from the usual square or circular setups seen on most smartphones. (And yes, if misaligned visuals bother you, this one might push your buttons!)
Nothing has also embraced rear LED patterns, known as the Glyph interface. While somewhat gimmicky, the feature is used to display alerts and notifications through light signals.
Nothing Replaces Glyph with New Circular Glyph Matrix Display
The company is now swapping out the Glyph interface for a small circular mini LED display, called the Glyph Matrix, positioned on the top right of the device’s back.
The new display shows 16-bit-style animations that convey more information than the original Glyph setup.
Nothing is also introducing mini-apps for the new interface, including games like spin the bottle and rock-paper-scissors.
It’s 2025, so naturally, the new phone includes some AI-powered tools. At launch, Nothing introduces two such features: Essential Space and Essential Search.
Essential Space, originally launched with the Nothing Phone (3a) Pro, started as a basic app for saving screenshots and notes. Now, it’s getting an upgrade—users can record meetings and receive AI-generated transcriptions and summaries. To activate it, you press the Essential key and place the phone face down. However, there’s currently no web access for viewing those transcripts or summaries.
AI-Driven Essential Search Joins Nothing’s Phone Features, Rivaling Siri
The company is also launching Essential Search, an AI-enhanced search tool similar to iPhone’s Spotlight. It lets users look up settings, files, and photos using keywords. There’s also a button next to the search bar that enables natural language queries for web results — similar to the iPhone’s ChatGPT-powered Siri experience.
The new smartphone offers specs on par with other flagship Android devices.
It features a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with a 1.5K resolution, protected by Gorilla Glass 7i. Powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip built on a 4-nanometer process, the phone delivers strong performance.
Advanced Triple 50MP Camera Setup with Upgraded 50MP Selfie Lens
The camera setup includes three 50-megapixel lenses, each with a distinct role: a main sensor measuring 1.3 inches—20% larger than that of the Phone (2)—with an f/1.68 aperture; a periscope telephoto lens offering 3x optical zoom and up to 60x digital zoom using AI Super Res Zoom; and an ultra-wide lens with a 114-degree field of view. The selfie camera has been upgraded from 32 to 50 megapixels.
Battery capacity is 5,150 mAh (5,500 mAh for the India variant), supporting 65W wired and 15W wireless charging.
Nothing OS 3.5 Runs on Android 15 with Android 16 Update Coming
The device runs Nothing OS 3.5 based on Android 15 and will receive an update to Nothing OS 4.0, based on Android 16, later this year. Nothing promises five years of software updates and seven years of security patches.
Pricing starts at $799 for the 256GB model and $899 for the 512GB version, placing it in direct competition with the Samsung Galaxy S25, which also launched at $799.
Preorders open on July 4, with general sales beginning July 15.
As previously reported by TechCrunch, Nothing will sell the Phone (3) broadly in the U.S. via its website and Amazon, marking the second widely available device after the Phone (2). Earlier budget models were only accessible through limited beta programs.
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