Nothing Phone (3a) and (3a) Pro announced with SD7s Gen 3 and telephoto cameras

04 March 2025
The Phone (3a) series brings solid upgrades this year.

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crispcketlicker, 04 Mar 2025Actually I prompted just that to Meta AI lol. "Generat... moreomg a fellow Junji Ito enjoyer 💙💙

    Anonymous, 04 Mar 2025Better value phones to you : Phone which Bill of Materi... moreNo, i just want a Nothing phone 3a but with an sd card slot and a headphone jack for the same price. I don't think that's too difficult when even 100 dollar phones have/had them.

    I'm being highly realistic but you all have been corrupted with companies' propaganda. And no, i dont care about updates. All i care about is what i have NOW, not what im promised in the future.

      Snapdragon 695 hater, 04 Mar 2025While I agree with you here and used to think like that I&#... morei'm not saying buying the products makes you bad automatically. But buying the products and continuing to support the companies' poor decisions online with the horrendous takes that these fanboys have is what makes you a bad person. Not only are you harming yourself but you're also harming others and the market in general by accepting the downgrades and making them normalized.

      Samsung's already taking out features from their Ultras, Google's raised the bar of greediness on the android front with a 1k+ dollar flagship that comes with a UFS 3.1 128 gb base version.

      And i think you're just having tunnel vision, i personally have faced the "X" from everyone, be it Apple, Google, Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo or even my beloved Vivo's fanboys lol.

      Anyways, i understand your take but the fact of the matter is there's nothing much you can do except for voting with your wallet.

      For example : i've purchased an AMD GPU cus i just could not stomach NVIDIA's greediness, that too after the exceptional value that the GTX 1070 gave me. My 1070 died and i was in the market for a GPU and saw that the RTX 3070 was priced 20-30% higher than the 6700 XT, whereas a few months ago they were similarly priced with the 3070 being slightly more expensive, and to make it all worse, due to the horrible place the market was in, i was essentially getting the 6700 xt for somewhere between a 3080 and 3080 ti's price, and the 3070 was even more expensive! Ofc, im talking about the msrp/initial pricing of the gpus in my place, but you get the picture. I think AMD's super greedy but NVIDIA's just on another level, at least with the artificial GPU shortages and price hikes. Crazy time then bro, and it's even more depressing to see that NVIDIA's still doing it with the 5070 ti and AMD's just not taking the chance and going at the same pace as before. One's incompetent and greedy the other's disgustingly greedy. I chose the lesser of the two evils.

      Another example can be seen with my phone, it's the first time im using a phone for more than 2 years, i was thinking of getting the 15 Ultra but these disgusting people just icked me out with their deceptive marketing. Don't get me wrong, I think the 15 Ultra is the best phone available out right now, but im not gonna support the company's awful marketing practices like lying about the zoom cam's native focal length. The camera is the main selling point of the phone and they're lying about it this year, they lied about it before too but i didn't know back then. And now it just disgusts me. What even is the point when you already have the best cameraphone on the market? Losing their good faith for no reason.

        PatrickCzech, 04 Mar 2025Similar price and specs as realme 14 Pro+, thats means more... moreseems to be cheaper actually. Here in the US, phone 3a is cheaper than the A36, and 3a Pro is cheaper than the A56. Both phones are definitly a better deal compared to the samsung competition, especially in the camera department. They only slightly fall behind in performance compared to the A56

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          Snapdragon 695 hater, 04 Mar 2025While I agree with you here and used to think like that I&#... moreNobody is forced to get new phone every 24-36 months.
          It is choice.
          People here need to stop pretending that is a need. ..

            jiyen235, 04 Mar 2025nice pfp bro, at first i thought it was Tomie lolActually I prompted just that to Meta AI lol. "Generate a picture of Tomie holding an skull, anime art style" :v

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              jiyen235, 04 Mar 2025forgive me for asking for better value phonesBetter value phones to you :

              Phone which Bill of Materials alone costs $600 , with 7 years of software updates and 3 years of warranty.
              Sold at $250.

              We got it. 🤣

                Anonymous, 04 Mar 2025Name me like one REALLY good phone that has both the headph... moresure bro, keep eating up the companies' propaganda.

                  jiyen235, 04 Mar 2025accepting change is good, accepting being duped is not. ... moreWhile I agree with you here and used to think like that I've taken a more balanced approach. This is a real issue where companies are outright screwing the consumer when they sell products that require the need to upgrade after a set amount of time. Two that you mentioned which are phones and graphics cards. These products on average get upgraded about every 2-3 years by the average consumer.

                  Yes there are shills out there and corporate slaves which is bad as it is but then you have consumers where they need to upgrade. It's like how I was trying to move away from my Moto G82 and last year I saw all these new phones still using the Snapdragon 695, hence the nickname and my rants on smartphones over the past year. At some point I needed to upgrade and the Nothing 2a was an option that fit my requirements.

                  Same with graphics cards. Imagine being still stuck on a 1080ti. These customers want to move away from this card but Nvidia haven't given them an option which is why everyone was hoping for a good price for the 9070xt.

                  Fanboy's are the worst though. These forums are a good example. Everyone here can criticize Android phones with no issue but if you say one bad thing about the iPhone 16e you'll get that big red 'X' next to your comment.

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                    DashF, 04 Mar 2025Same lazy approach as some chinese manufacturers. Now they&... moreThe 3a and 3a Pro are just so similar, only the telephoto and front cameras are switched, the size would be such a much meeded differenciator. Just look back at the iPhone 7/Galaxy S9 and their Plus version with telephotos as a positive example. (I think) Nobody complained about not getting the standard version with larger screen size. But I guess people are pickier today when it comes to different specs and prices.

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                      jiyen235, 04 Mar 2025forgive me for asking for better value phonesName me like one REALLY good phone that has both the headphone jack and the sd card.
                      That has REALLY good cameras and has REALLY good performance.

                      That's literally impossible if you want a budget (or low-end) phone.

                        A 512GB Pro model with faster UFS would have been the move to make, especially as the camera is a big selling point. Storage fills up super quickly when taking lots of pics these days.

                          is there any successor to the Phone 2?

                            403 Forbidden, 04 Mar 2025This. Companies will NEVER be your friend, well except if y... moreworse than not getting paid is being forced to pay more and liking it. Fanboys in general are just a disease lmao

                              jiyen235, 04 Mar 2025accepting change is good, accepting being duped is not. ... moreThis. Companies will NEVER be your friend, well except if you get paid for it, lol.

                              But hey, I'm pretty sure that 99,99% fanboys in the internet are not getting paid. They will just defend their favorite company even though they know they're defending the wrong thing.

                                Snapdragon 695 hater, 04 Mar 2025Agree with this comment as well as your previous comment. I... morei wouldn't mind the loss of sd cards at all if they supplemented it with higher storages at the same price. But no one's doing that. We're getting stronger, more powerful and longer lasting phones with less storage than in the past. And the higher base storages are just an illusion as the storages cost the same as before, it's just that the lower pricing tiers have been removed. A Note20 Ultra could've been gotten with a 512 GB storage and a 1 tb sd card could've been added for a 1.5 tb combined storage, a 5 year old phone outdoing modern phones in being "Ultra".

                                This is completely unacceptable yet people just eat it all up. I can kind of forego this storage thing if the phone has exceptional value in other places such as battery, charging or cameras and the modern day Chinese Ultras thankfully are fulfilling that role to make up for the deficiency. It's still crazy to me that we're touting 8k recording and RAW/UltraRAW photography yet there's no 1.5-2 TB storage option. I thought 1 TB would be base for Ultras by now but that's not the case.

                                And i can live without headphone jacks, all im saying is that these features ADD value, despite costing little to the manufacturer. These greedy companies aren't gonna do it tho, they're gonna MAKE you upgrade storage tiers and force you to use their bluetooth headphones and these mindless consumers/shills will eat it up as "get with the times old man". The world's a proper circus now lmao

                                And yeah bro, the Phone 2a was bonkers good and with newer deals, it just makes the newer phone irrelevant.

                                  PatrickCzech, 04 Mar 2025That Exynos 1580 is faster than Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. Plus S... moreDidn't know abt that. It makes more sense then.

                                    crispcketlicker, 04 Mar 2025Great design and good software, dependable cameras. Great c... morenice pfp bro, at first i thought it was Tomie lol

                                      Anonymous, 04 Mar 2025the camera won't be laggy but you are right that about... morewhen people accept Google's usage of UFS 3.1 and a 128 GB base for a 1000$+ flagship, i think this con could've been forgiven if they had some extra feature. They don't lol so it's just a very weird product.

                                        403 Forbidden, 04 Mar 2025"Just move on and accept the change." ahh response.accepting change is good, accepting being duped is not.

                                        Unfortunately the modern day audience loves being duped by companies. Be it in games, graphics cards, phones or a streaming service, the modern day consumer is just a mindless paypig for companies and not only that, they also shill these companies like their brother owns it, when in reality they're being sucked dry and used up by these companies. A really sad reality that we have and 1984 seems to be some utopia compared to what we're seeing now.

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