Rishik Iyyappan Will the difference between 120 Hz and 144 Hz actually be noticeable? On my PC I went from a 120 Hz screen to a 175 Hz screen and honestly can barely see and feel the difference in daily use. Additionally 120 Hz already has quite an impact on battery life, so 144 will be even more.
As for the material, it’s personal preference, the metal unibody of course is a lot more resistent to drops, however I just think the glass back with the full transparent design feels a lot more Nothing than the iPhone like 4a Pro with just the camera plateau being transparant. But that’s a pretty subjective design aspect, which some people surely will prefer, others won’t. The 4a Pro surely looks less busy and more streamlined, while the NP3 feels more cluttered due to the fairly asymetrical camera alignment.
In the end the only thing you can do is take the feature list and weight every single one how important it is for your own preferences or just decide which phones looks better.
I can only talk about my own preferences and when I compare a number of points you mentioned, they don’t really feel like they’d provide me with meaningful real life benefits:
- 144 Hz vs 120 Hz seems to be an extremely small step
- 140x vs 60x zoom again more sounds like a gimmick to me. The quality of 60x zoom on NP3 is already not great to say the least and while the periscope lens of the 4a Pro is longer (80mm equiv. vs 70mm equiv.), which naturally gives a benefit when zooming in, I don’t really see a true benefit for my needs. When I was on vacation last year, I barely ever touched the 60x option, in fact I rarely used more than 20x zoom on my NP3. On the other hand i almost dropped my phone i to a pond, where the full IP68 certainly would have provided a real world benefit if it had happened.
- The peak brightness numbers IMHO are pretty much meaningless, the regular outdoor brightness of both displays, which at least for me is the most important aspect, is identical with 1600 nits for both phones.
- The larger matrix is nice for sure, no argueing here. However just looking at the design of NP3, that small matrix integrates a lot better into the design language than it would if they went with a larger display, so I at least can understand Nothing’s decision keeping it smaller. Additionally there is also the matrix button, I don’t know how that functionality works on 4a Pro which doesn’t have the dedicated button. Having said that, I feel the matrix seems to be overall just nore thought out on the 4a Pro regardless of the lower resolution. One of my biggest gripes with the matrix overall compared to the old glyph interface is how easy it is to miss the animations when the phone is sitting on a desk next to you. The 4a Pro with a bigger and brighter matrix should do better than the very inconspicuous one of NP3.
