Nothing on Tuesday launched its latest flagship telephone after a two-year hole. At an occasion in London, the corporate unveiled the Telephone (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 Telephone (1) in 2022 , the GV-backed startup has relied on a clear design to make its telephone stand out from others.
The Telephone (3) follows that very same design language, however it introduces a stranger digicam association that forgoes the standard sq. or round alignment discovered on different smartphone gadgets. (In case you are somebody who will get triggered by unaligned components on web sites or apps, this digicam association may 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 point out you completely different alerts and notifications utilizing the LED lights.
Now, the corporate is changing GIphy with a small round mini LED display, referred to as Glphy Matrix, on the again of the system on the high proper.
This addition shows 16-bit styled patterns, which may provide extra info than the sooner Glphy association.
The corporate can also be releasing mini-apps for this interface, comparable 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 referred to as Important Area and Important Search.
The corporate first debuted Important Area, an app to avoid wasting screenshots and take notes, on the Nothing Telephone 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 should press the Important key and place the telephone with the display aspect down to start out the recording. Whereas this sounds probably 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 permits you to seek for settings, information, or images in your telephone by typing in key phrases.
Plus, you possibly can sort in pure language queries to get net outcomes by urgent a button subsequent to the search bar. That is much 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 system 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 completely different roles. The principle digicam has a 1.3-inch sensor, which is 20% greater than Telephone (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 gives a 114-degree area of view.
Nothing can also be upgrading the selfie digicam from 32 megapixels to 50 megapixels.
The Telephone (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 mentioned the telephone will ship with Nothing OS 3.5, which relies on Android 15, and will likely be up to date to Nothing OS 4.0, primarily based on Android 16, later this yr. It famous that the flagship system will get 5 years of software program updates and 7 years of safety updates.
The corporate will promote the 256GB mannequin of the Telephone (3) for $799 and the 512GB mannequin for $899. At this value, the telephone straight competes with the Samsung Galaxy S25, which was launched at a base value of $799 earlier this yr.
Pre-orders for the system start on July 4 with basic availability on July 15.
As TechCrunch reported final month, Nothing is making the Telephone (3) obtainable within the U.S. typically via its personal web site and Amazon. That is the second system, after Telephone (2) the corporate is making extensively obtainable. Its different price range gadgets have been obtainable solely via a restrictive beta program.
