Today we’re introducing the Phone (3a) Series, elevating our mid-range lineup with advanced features. Building on the acclaimed Phone (2a), it boasts an advanced triple-camera system with optical zoom, a powerful Snapdragon® processor, a brighter, more responsive display, and Nothing OS innovations like Essential Space—all wrapped in two uniquely refined designs.


‎Phone (3a) Series

🎨 Design
Both the Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro feature a more sophisticated look and feel, with upgraded glass back panels, enhanced symmetry in the internal structure, and refined visual details and elements throughout the finish. The design celebrates each new camera system through our trademark exposed aesthetic and cutting-edge engineering, while meticulously optimising the integration of advanced hardware. The Phone (3a) Series also upgrades its durability to an IP64 rating and achieves Nothing’s lowest carbon footprint on a smartphone to date, with 51.3kg of CO2e.

📸 Cameras

The Nothing Phone (3a) Series introduces Nothing’s most advanced camera system to date, featuring an upgraded 50MP main sensor and a Sony ultra-wide sensor, along with optical zoom for the first time. All powered by TrueLens Engine 3.0 combining advanced computational algorithms, AI processing, and multi-frame technology to deliver professional-grade, true-to-life photography.

Phone (3a) telephoto camera
Ready to pull you closer to your subject, Phone (3a)’s telephoto camera features a powerful 50MP sensor combined with a fast f/2.0 aperture for detailed shots at its 50mm equivalent focal length. The 2x optical reach lays the foundation for a quality zoom, while the high resolution enables up to 4x lossless in-sensor zoom. When you need to zoom in even further, the Phone (3a) harnesses AI clarity-enhancing algorithms for 30x ultra zoom.

Phone (3a) Pro periscope camera
Flagship telephoto zoom meets ultimate versatility with Phone (3a) Pro’s powerful periscope zoom. A total upgrade in hardware, it combines a large 1/1.95-inch Sony LYTIA 600 sensor with a 70mm equivalent focal length and a fast f/2.55 aperture. All this translates to excellent zoom and much more.

With optical image stabilisation, Phone (3a) Pro’s periscope camera can capture quality photos across lighting conditions, whether indoors or at night, while the optical 3x zoom is a photographer-favourite, portrait-perfect focal length.

The high-resolution 50MP sensor delivers lossless in-sensor zooming at up to 6x and when boosted with AI clarity-enhancing algorithms, it unlocks 60x ultra zoom. Where Phone (3a) Pro surpasses even flagship smartphones is its telemacro capture. Able to focus as close as 15cm from a subject, it breaks through periscope limitations that hold back flagship phones.

Main camera
The Phone (3a) features a 50MP main sensor co-engineered with Samsung, integrating on-sensor deep learning processing software algorithms trained on millions of photography scenarios to enhance image clarity, reduce noise, and provide true-to-life accuracy.

The Phone (3a) Pro’s 50MP main sensor further elevates the experience with advanced sensor technologies, offering 43% faster auto-focus and double the pixel full well capacity, allowing for more detail in harsh lighting conditions. Zooming out, the Phone (3a) Series’ ultra-wide camera boasts a 120º field of view, enabling you to capture more in each frame, while the upgraded Sony sensor enhances low-light performance.

Front camera
Finally, the Phone (3a) boasts a 32MP front camera, while the Phone (3a) Pro features an upgraded 50MP front camera capable of recording high-quality 4K videos with adaptive AI stabilisation and night video enhancement, improving brightness by +74.4% and reducing noise by 33.7% compared to Phone (2a).

‎Phone (3a) Pro Black

⚡️ Performance
The Snapdragon® 7s Gen 3 Mobile Platform, with breakthrough performance powering select Snapdragon experiences and turbo-charged by Nothing OS optimisations, is on hand to cut down on waiting and level up living. Phone (3a) Series also games faster, delivers more stable frame rates, and goes for longer, thanks to the powerful Snapdragon processor. Getting into some numbers, the CPU is up to 33% faster than Phone (2a), while the Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU delivers 11% better graphics. Plus, you get select Snapdragon Elite Gaming™ features typically reserved for flagship device

Phone (3a) Series is 92% better at processing AI tasks than Phone (2a), making it more future-proofed for whatever AI developments are on the horizon. It also takes full advantage of Nothing OS and Essential Space, saving you time with things like on-device voice to text transcription.

RAM Booster uses a combination of physical and virtual RAM to allow users to access up to 20GB, plus a larger 4,500 mm² vapor chamber reduces temperature by 23% vs. Phone (2a).

🔋 Battery and Charging
Phone (3a) Series also lasts longer. With the optimised Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 mobile platform using 8% less power for typical tasks, enjoy 30 minutes more power every day.

Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro both have large 5000mAh batteries, delivering up to two days of use on a full charge. With upgraded fast charging now at 50W, Phone (3a) Series delivers a full day’s power (50%) in under 20 minutes.

📱 Display
Balancing size and quality, Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro’s displays are immersive and brilliant. At 6.77 inches, their flagship size means on-screen content has room to breathe. Slightly taller and with less rounded corners than past Nothing phones, Phone (3a) Series’ displays represent a maturity and confidence befitting of a second-generation device.

At Full HD+ resolution, visuals look crisp with 387 pixels in every inch of screen, and with a fluid 120Hz adaptive refresh rate. The standard touch sampling rate is 480Hz, a 100% increase from Phone (2a), and 1000Hz touch sampling rate when in Gaming Mode, swiping through Phone (3a) Series is smooth, and responsive.

Fire up auto brightness and your Phone (3a) climbs up to 1300 nits all by itself, making it viewable under a scorching sun. But peak brightness now reaches 3000 nits, a 131% increase from Phone (2a).


‎Phone (3a) White

💿 Nothing OS
Nothing OS 3.1 is a fast, smooth foundation tuned for stability, utility and customisation, built with Android 15 at its core - there have also been updates to the Nothing Gallery, Camera and Weather apps. Phone (3a) Series peels back a new level of personalisation. Dial distraction back with a monochromatic theme, hide app labels to clean up your home screen, customise the lock screen and quick settings so everything you need is at your fingertips, and you can even shake up your apps. Phone (3a) Pro also supports eSIM support (excluding India).

Phone (3a) Series will get updates for 6 years starting from when the device first became available on nothing.tech. This includes three years of Android updates and six years of security updates in addition to corrective  and functionality updates.

🟡 Essential Space (early access)
Essential Space is a new, AI-powered hub for notes, ideas, and inspirations. Taking the friction out of logging and recalling content, it can capture, process and remember - just like a second memory.

To make sure Essential Space is always a click away, Nothing created the Essential Key. Easy for a thumb to find and press, it’s on the right side of Phone (3a) Series. Press the Essential Key to capture and send content to Essential Space, long-press to record a voice note, and double-tap to head straight to all your saved content.

Nothing is made better by its community, and so too is Essential Space. That’s why Essential Space Early Access will be available to all customers who purchase a Phone (3a) or Phone (3a) Pro. Early Access will open the doors to the full Essential Space experience, including upcoming features set for launch in the coming months such as Camera Capture, Smart Collections, Focused Search and Flip to Record.


🏷️ Availability and Pricing

Phone (3a) is available in Black, White, and Blue

  • 8+128GB - £329 / €329 / ₹24,999
  • 8+256GB - ₹26,999
  • 12+256GB - £379 / $379 / €379

Phone (3a) Pro is available in Grey and Black

  • 8+128GB - ₹29,999
  • 8+256GB - ₹31,999
  • 12+256GB - £449 / $459 / €459 / ₹33,999


  • 🌏 Most global customers will be able to pre-order Phone (3a) today (4 March) via nothing.tech

  • Phone (3a) Pro pre-orders start from 11 March via nothing.tech

  • 🇬🇧 Nothing Store Soho (London) will be one of the first places in the world where Nothing fans can purchase Phone (3a) Series from 11:00 AM GMT on Saturday 8 March

  • 🇺🇸 In the US, the Phone (3a) series will be accessible to users exclusively through Nothing’s US Beta Program. Participants will be provided a Phone (3a) / Phone (3a) Pro and are encouraged to provide feedback on their experience. More information can be found on nothing.tech

  • Phone (3a) will go on Open Sales via nothing.tech and partners on 11 March

  • Phone (3a) Pro will go on Open Sales via nothing.tech and partners from 25 March

A full list of specifications and features can be found on nothing.tech. To stay updated on all the latest information, be sure to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and X.

    Good launch. 👍🏻

    From what I’ve seen the Pro is very much geared for people who really, really want optical zoom photography or prefer a distinctive phone. The Essential Key is what I’m most interested in but want to know more about what information it records about the user (voice profiling?) and whether the data can be accessed by Nothing and other third-parties. Price in the UK seems about right.

    Has the ‘Plus’ moniker been replaced with ‘Pro’ going forward?

    Is blue available in the USA or is that overseas only. Wanting to know before I order a white

    If anyone knows please let me know

    Rob ⚡️ The Nothing team has done such a fantastic job with literally everything. Masterstrokes over masterstrokes to conquer global coverage. #GodSpeed #AllLoveFromIndia

    In the pricing there was only a 128gb version. Is the 256gb comming?

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      May depend on your region. Switch between the colours and see if the variant drop-down changes.

      Huge fan of the Essential Space feature. Good job on that one!

      For the UK nothing store drops, will that also include the 3(a) Pro?

        Really great launch and unique as always from Nothing. Both devices look beautiful and I can’t wait to get my hands on them both. The (3a) Pro is certainly looking more like a different device, but that blue (3a) also looks lovely!

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        I just watch the complete event of nothing phone 3a launch and it’s really nice way to introduce the phone 3a but there are some hit and miss

        Let’s start from hit:-

        1. How carl explain everything and try to explain in most simplest way is really good
        2. That little intraction with customer and intrigration of store plan is really amazing
        3. Emphazize on it’s more powerful thing . i mean camera and showcasing of it is damn…
        4. Essential space feature is so innovative and i really like and new wedgit too

        Now,let’s talk about miss:-

        1. You emphsize on camera, right but you don’t talk about gallery app that is the one of the most important thing for make the experience great and you even mention it on product page but it’s still on beta . it’s almost four month but still .think about that…
        2. You mention focused feature in video but it will coming soon . so, in my opionion show only those thing which is available because it’s really furstrating too wait just like gallery and you don’t even on time sometime
        3. At last i didn’t able to grasp the concept of watermark like thing on video or camera app you had too put more time on it

        Except this i am really excited to use new essential space feature and new chat gpt wedgit too . and it is really helpful for me if you join me inn for your trust worthy review program akis launch recently with the help of technerd

        Loved this launch video! Looking forward to getting my hands on the Phone (3a) Pro

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