Nothing Phone 3A Lite strips the Glyph Lights down to the bare minimum

Symmetric camera lovers, look distant now.

After Nothing’s caller flagship Phone 3 ditched its trademark Glyph Lights successful favour of a dot matrix display, the caller Phone 3A Lite brings them backmost — but lone 1 of them. The affordable  telephone launches contiguous successful the UK and Europe, but won’t get a merchandise successful the US.

The 3A Lite features conscionable a azygous small, circular LED successful its bottom-right corner, which Nothing says was “inspired by classical notification lights.” It inactive supports a batch of the aforesaid features arsenic the more analyzable Glyph Light systems though: you tin flip the telephone face-down to get silent, light-only notifications; acceptable customized airy sequences for circumstantial contacts; and usage the airy arsenic a ocular countdown for the camera timer.

The remainder of the Phone 3A Lite looks similar classical Nothing, disposable successful achromatic oregon achromatic with a semi-transparent rear and a azygous reddish accent. The asymmetric camera layout is improbable to delight each detractor of the Phone 3’s arguable design, though to my eyes this looks overmuch amended than that phone. I’m conscionable not definite what’s going connected with that large conception connected the back; it looks tantalizingly similar it should popular unfastened for easier repairs and artillery replacement, but Nothing has confirmed that it’s lone intended to look that mode — senior planetary PR manager Lewis Hopkins told The Verge it’s a “simulated artillery design.”

The 3A Lite is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro 5G, unneurotic with 8GB of RAM and either 128GB oregon 256GB of storage, though a microSD paper slot supports up to 2TB. The 5,000mAh artillery should present decent longevity, though the 33W wired charging isn’t particularly fast. The 120Hz OLED surface is beauteous ample astatine 6.77 inches, and the telephone has an IP54 standing too. 

The 50-megapixel main camera uses a amazingly ample 1/1.57-inch sensor, with an f/1.8 aperture, meaning photography mightiness beryllium 1 of the phone’s beardown suits. But lone from that camera — the 8-megapixel ultrawide doesn’t dependable each excessively impressive, and the 3rd rear lens is lone a macro. A 16-megapixel selfie camera rounds retired the set.

The Phone 3A Lite is available to bargain today successful the UK and Europe, wherever it costs £249 / €249 (around $310) with 128GB of storage, and £279 / €279 (around $350) to upgrade to 256GB. It runs Nothing OS 3.5, based connected past year’s Android 15, and Nothing promises 3 years of large Android updates and six years of information support.