I was a late starter for mobile phone ownership, even when working for One2One I did not have a phone for two years.
Then I reluctantly got a Nokia 3310 with just enough features to stay in contact, days of battery life and SNAKE!
This phone was tough, dropped often, used in the rain, even thrown across the room and blew apart, it just all clipped back together and worked fine.
Sony Ericsson 5Mp with 3x Optical zoom was next, used that until the keyboard fell apart
Then a Blackberry, I was given an on call phone for two years, a Blackberry curve, proper email and BBM
I liked it so much I eventually got a Q10 then a Blackberry Priv with pop out keyboard.
It died from processor failure, maybe overheating and Blackberry went under anyway.
Sony Xperia was next, Had three of those, too expensive now but still tempting.
Notice I have avoided Apple and Google entirely and was hoping a Nothing 3A Pro would be the next quirky phone to do everything I need.
It is indeed unique, lots of features (mostly ignored)
A Camera that needs glasses in its old age, It no longer holds focus at full zoom so the zoom is pointless.
It also has features that like a splinter, are tiny but very irritating.
No SD-card option - WHY ??
Poor connectivity through USB.
Every one of my phones in recent history has allowed full drag and drop browsing of media through USB.
Maybe I make things difficult by using Linux most of the time, but almost all of my previous phones have provided seamless integration to manage phone media.
So yeah, Nothing is great apart from the tiny but annoying splinters.
I’m looking at the 4a pro and not seeing enough progress to persuade me to replace the 3a, yet.
Fix the 3a and I will buy a 4a.
