Oh my god… Are you comparing it to the Realme 11 Pro Plus? Maybe you should compare it to the Nothing Phone (2)? Screw it—let’s compare it to the Nothing Phone (1). How do you like the fact that Nothing Phone (1) has twice the UFS speed of Nothing Phone (3a)? A great progression over three generations—I like it! Keep up the good work.

I suggest using eMMC memory in the Nothing Phone (3). We’ll save you a ton of money!

Wait a minute though… Have you heard about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820? The Snapdragon 820 was released nine years ago, around the same time as UFS 2.1, and it was a flagship. Yo! This is exactly what we need! We’ll tell everyone that our cool software optimization overclocks the Snapdragon 820 to the level of the Snapdragon 8 Elite. And let’s not forget about the incredible balance.

But seriously, did you know that UFS 2.2 is less reliable than UFS 3.1? And did you know that UFS 2.2 will start losing speed as the drive fills beyond 80%? What about the lower power efficiency of UFS 2.2, its higher I/O latencies? What do you think about delays when shooting photos from the people above?

Raymond’s post is just a marketing ploy to try to justify the use of UFS 2.2, but believe me, there’s no reason to use UFS 2.2 in a smartphone priced over $250. That’s all.

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mandila1234 yes exactly that’s the point why should i disable the app??? I bought a phone to disable the app… why should we as a customer has to do this. This is Smartphone company responsibility to do from their own end. Even not a single bloatware is on new nothing phone. But in so called chinese phones first remove all the chinese app then disable the hot app hot game and here they don’t they send us unnecessary notification through their app what is this shit….. i pay for a phone so i own it.

      NOVA Yeah, and also ALT mode with USB3.2. Your dreams are your problems, Nothing has other plans.

        RaviKumar_5l0laVScAX

        with out proper hardwear how much you can optimise a phone ?

        a software that just become slow no matter even if it comes from direct god ! because software is just a thing need to be refreshed every time whenever technology develops… updating some of apps require minimumram speed… so it wont consider yiur software… it will consider phone capacity!

            Thanks for clarifying! There’s been a lot of chatter around this topic which was very confusing. I’m excited to get a hold of my 3(a) Pro tomorrow.

              CMF1_hacker yes nd its not big deal coz in real life u can’t tell the d/f b/w 2.2 & 3.1.

              So its okay, but we are getting camera which is huge plus point and ofcourse nothing os.

                RaviKumar_5l0laVScAX whatever optimization they do, they’ll need to keep doing it on the long run since 2.2 isn’t meant for longevity in the current era.

                2 2 is OLD and very outdated.

                  Raymond

                  Good explanation, but we are expecting LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.1 storage. In this price range, competitors are providing a more advanced tech stack.

                  You should compare UFS 2.2 and UFS 4.1 to understand the difference.

                  Focus on image processing speed after capturing a picture with the camera—this is a common issue in every Nothing Phone.

                    RaviKumar_5l0laVScAX

                    i have nothing 3a and nothing 1 and i phone 13 and my dad has i phone 16.

                    so ios 18 in both iphones.

                    now ios 18 is known to optimise till i phone 19..(future)

                    but i phone 13 slows down because of hardware but i phone 16 got fastest performance due to the hardwear.

                    so why this difference in 13 and 16 when both has sameios 18 software and optimization?

                    prove me i am wrong!

                    answer this !

                    why nothing 1 is ufs 3.1 when there they dont have issue with 2.2 ?

                    so does nothing 1 slower than 3a ?

                    if you are real user you need to understand basic knowledge of how storage is processed and how the optimization works ?

                    dont be a blind fanboy … even i am fan of nothing but we are paying money not a love…

                    we need a valuable phone not only just design and a fan has right to question the brand and also defend. but here we have cleare picture they made a cost cutting simplest line …

                    lpddr5x and ufs 3.1 at least when say its pro !

                    just adding a small lenses and comparing photos with i phone 16 is insane dude….

                    this 3a and 3a pro have you seen flares ? have yiu seen colour science?

                    its just worse than a 15k chinees redmi !

                    how many days you can defend whatever company says !

                    a core user always raise voice so that company should take correct feed back then they improve…

                    if you keep defendingthere mistake our fav brand will never grow bcoz they dont get correct criticism and correctfeed back.

                    please test the phones and come here then we discuss.

                    thats cool part is we all want nothing to become good brand but thats in our hand we have to give genuine feedback then company will grow!

                        What ever you say about UFS 2.2, Once indians made up their mind no one can change it now indians are feeling that there is no value in 3a series, Once carl pei said that India is a tech savy market, when the competition is giving 3.1 UFS in the same price bracket these tech savy people obviously will look into value how carl missed this logic, however indians doesn’t feel 3a series is value for money product we have better options in same price range, 3a series is going to fail in India may be people will buy it in the sale season on e-commerce.

                        Akshay_IVY6ceGfY5 first of all the hardware d/f b/w iphone 13 & 16 is like ground and sky, but if you compare at a price which it is current selling with any android phone with same you will see change and smoothness between phone,

                        And you said you have nothing phone 3a go and compare it with you any friend ufs 3.1 phones go and see the i think then you will find the answer.