Nothing launches its costliest flagship but, Cellphone (3)

Nothing on Tuesday launched its latest flagship telephone after a two-year hole. At an occasion in London, the corporate unveiled the Cellphone (3), which begins at $799 and goals to tackle bigwigs like Samsung and Apple with its differentiated design and options concentrating on tech fans. 

Since releasing Cellphone (1) in 2022, the GV-backed startup has relied on a clear design to make its telephone stand out from others.

The Cellphone (3) follows that very same design language, however it introduces a stranger digital camera association that forgoes the everyday sq. or round alignment discovered on different smartphone units. (If you’re somebody who will get triggered by unaligned components on web sites or apps, this digital camera association would possibly make you mad!)

Nothing has additionally favored arranging LEDs on its again — a function that it calls Glyph. This was all the time considerably gimmicky, however the firm made use of this to indicate you totally different alerts and notifications utilizing the LED lights.

Now, the corporate is changing Glyph with a small round mini LED display, referred to as Glyph Matrix, on the again of the machine on the high proper.

This addition shows 16-bit styled patterns, which may supply extra info than the sooner Glyph association.

The corporate can also be releasing mini-apps for this interface, akin to spin the bottle and rock, paper, scissors.

It’s 2025, so the telephone has to incorporate some AI-powered options, too. At launch this contains two options referred to as Important Area and Important Search.

The corporate first debuted Important Area, an app to save lots of screenshots and take notes, on the Nothing Cellphone (3a) Professional. Now, Nothing is upgrading this app to allow you to file conferences and think about an AI transcription and abstract.

To make use of the function, you’ll should press the Important key and place the telephone with the display aspect down to start out the recording. Whereas this sounds probably helpful, Nothing doesn’t have an online interface to entry these transcriptions and summaries at the moment.

Nothing can also be debuting Important Search — a function just like the iPhone’s Highlight search — and infusing it with AI.

This search function lets you seek for settings, recordsdata, or images in your telephone by typing in key phrases.

Plus, you may sort in pure language queries to get net outcomes by urgent a button subsequent to the search bar. That is much like iPhone’s upgraded Siri interface, which is built-in with ChatGPT.

Specs and availability

The brand new smartphone has comparable specs to different corporations’ Android flagships.

This features a 6.67-inch AMOLED display with 1.5K decision, which is protected by Gorilla Glass 7i. The machine is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor, constructed on a 4-nanometer structure. 

The trio of cameras all have a 50-megapixel decision, however play totally different roles. The primary digital camera has a 1.3-inch sensor, which is 20% greater than Cellphone (2), at a f/1.68 aperture; the periscope telephoto lens provides 3x optical zoom, and 60x digital zoom with AI Tremendous Res Zoom; and the ultra-wide lens supplies a 114-degree area of view.

Nothing can also be upgrading the selfie digital camera from 32 megapixels to 50 megapixels.

The Cellphone (3) has a 5,150 mAh battery (5,500 mAh in its India variant) with assist for 65W wired charging and 15W wi-fi charging.

The corporate mentioned the telephone will ship with Nothing OS 3.5, which relies on Android 15, and will probably be up to date to Nothing OS 4.0, based mostly on Android 16, later this yr. It famous that the flagship machine will get 5 years of software program updates and 7 years of safety updates.

The corporate will promote the 256GB mannequin of the Cellphone (3) for $799 and the 512GB mannequin for $899. At this value, the telephone instantly competes with the Samsung Galaxy S25, which was launched at a base value of $799 earlier this yr.

Preorders for the machine start on July 4 with common availability on July 15.

As TechCrunch reported final month, Nothing is making the Cellphone (3) out there within the U.S. typically via its personal web site and Amazon. That is the second machine, after Cellphone (2), the corporate is making extensively out there. Its different price range units have been out there solely via a restrictive beta program.