Nothing Phone (3a) rumored to have a larger 6.8" screen and a 50MP telephoto camera

28 January 2025
That's a pretty big departure from the previous a-model. In fact, no Nothing phone so far has had a tele lens.

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  • pKL
  • 28 Jan 2025

Did anyone see the Nothing promo to build MKBHD's perfect phone? He listed like 3-4 cameras and in total that came to 50 bucks, so Nothing could do better than have an 8mp ultra wide and downgrading from the 50 mp on the 2a, if the rumors are true.

    This company is now HMD with worse gimmicks, but just as bad gear for the price. Absolutely nothing going on here.

      Telephoto > ultra wide. I almost never use ultra wide camera, main wide is already too wide for me.

        Called a flagship with a 2x zoom meh

          Why so small. I wanted 7 inches 😮‍💨. What a disappointment...

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            • 39x
            • 28 Jan 2025

            Nothing new.. to sand out an phone manufacturer needs to release nice big phone 7''

              Why not make the 3a with a smaller display and the 3a+ with a larger display? Cater for more people. We're going to see three phones with 6.8" displays.

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                • Anonymous
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                • 28 Jan 2025

                Oh. My. God. Can they stop with that puny 1/4.0" 8MP camera that costs, like, a dime, for God's sake? Toy cameras shoot better photos than whatever those ultrawides achieve with AI

                  I really don't get the tradeoff of the ultrawide for the 2x telephoto. I'd rather keep the higher res ultrawide and have a higher res main camera with some lossless zoom from which you could snap perfectly great 2x photos

                    funnyguy, 28 Jan 2025Man... can we have smartphones with 4 inch screens again? I... morehigh costs and marginal consumer base are the reasons why small phones fizzled out.
                    most people would take the phone with no compromise for the price paid.

                      "The rear camera will be upgraded with the company’s (possibly) first telephoto module – a 50MP camera with a 2x lens. That will come at the expense of the ultra-wide camera, which will drop to 8MP (previous ultra-wides on Nothing phones have been 50MP units). "

                      Okay, so from now on Nothing will just rebrand Oppo devices, well it was nice knowing them.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • pKL
                        • 28 Jan 2025

                        It's already a big phone so unless the bezels are thinner it will be a chunky phone.

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                          • funnyguy
                          • Jic
                          • 28 Jan 2025

                          Man... can we have smartphones with 4 inch screens again? I no longer care.

                            Anonymous, 28 Jan 2025Strip the base models of lights and add friggin e-sim suppo... morewithout nothing, something cannot exist 🤔

                              8MP ultrawide is unacceptable in 2025. Don't downgrade the ultrawide just to fit in a 2× telephoto. Hell, don't ever downgrade in general, except for one situation. If MediaTek gave you cheaper offers compared to Qualcomm but for slightly worse performance than predecessor, go for them just to preserve the 50MP ultrawide while also adding a 50MP 2× telephoto.

                                Anonymous, 28 Jan 2025Strip the base models of lights and add friggin e-sim suppo... moreI am discouraged by the lack of fast wireless charging even on a 45 W cable don't make an impression in 2025

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • m}R
                                  • 28 Jan 2025

                                  Strip the base models of lights and add friggin e-sim support already!! This company adds absolutely nothing of interest to me this far. No e-sim no buy.

                                    It should have at least 7 icnh screen so people who still shouting about smaller devices should learn to have a bigger phone because its a lot better in litterary every aspect mostly the specs, Also the bigger phones are better for typing on keyboard and reading text without using magnyfying glass.

                                      if you look at the comments under the YT videos starting with the NP1 model, the most common requests are for smaller screens.

                                      "...At Nothing, we listen to our customers' requests..."
                                      Carl Pei

                                      Nothing Phone 3a 6.8" screen...
                                      🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

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                                        • BLW
                                        • 28 Jan 2025

                                        If the battery life would be significant shorter as in Realme 14 Pro + vs Realme 13 Pro+ I would think more in terms of CPU (Realme with bigger battery but on Snapdragon live not so long as earlier model with smaller battery on Mediatek)

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