Weekly poll: can the Nothing Phone (3a) or the Phone (3a) Pro be your next phone
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- Humter
- arT
- 16 Mar 2025
I'm picking the pro partly because of the camera and partly because of esim that the vanilla 3a doesn't support
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- vik457
- LfV
- 16 Mar 2025
Minu, 16 Mar 2025Agreed. Instead of using a pedestrian ultrawide, they could... moreWhat's the heart on comment about galaxycore sensors?
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- Anonymous
- 2Tg
- 16 Mar 2025
Waiting for Nothing Phone 3..
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- Darth Caesium
- dUQ
- 16 Mar 2025
vik457, 16 Mar 2025Why didn't they use that sensor for ultrawide?Maybe supply constraints? Maybe margins would be too low to be profitable enough to survive for a company the size of Nothing? Maybe they got an extremely good and cheap deal with those 8MP ultrawides? Whatever it is, I don't think Nothing is trying to price fix like Xiaomi, Realme, OnePlus and Oppo are doing at this price range.
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- deRykcihC
- raQ
- 16 Mar 2025
This is a good timing to snatch Phone 2a lol, the price dropped to the previous Cmf phone 1 msrp
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- vik457
- LfV
- 16 Mar 2025
Darth Caesium, 16 Mar 2025With the Pro's price tag, they could've either us... moreWhy didn't they use that sensor for ultrawide?
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- Anonymous
- Bn5
- 16 Mar 2025
I don't care about cameras much myself, bought th nothing 3a phone and seems good so far. I've only played final fantasy 7 ever crisis on it but it plays well and does everything else a phone does at a good price. Didn't want a Chinese brand phone in the age of CCP and their desire to invade Taiwan (never know if your phone will suddenly get locked out or you lose access to Google services etc. / spying on your data). Nothing gave me a chance to get a cheaper phone than Samsung that works very well for normal use anyway.
- FredrickX
- Rxg
- 16 Mar 2025
Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 is unfortunately, very uncompetitive for mid-range phones.
Sure, a good chip doesn't 100% guarantee a good phone, but a mediocre chip 100% guarantees a mediocre phone.
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- Anonymous
- U@f
- 16 Mar 2025
Anonymous, 16 Mar 2025Actually I don't like when a company CEO acted arrog... moreLooks like you won't like any company in your lifetime.
- justasmile
- uQ5
- 16 Mar 2025
DarlingYext, 16 Mar 2025No thanks, I don't want a phone with plastic frames.What's the difference when most would use a case on anyway
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- Anonymous
- j9J
- 16 Mar 2025
Not a fan of the slow UFS 2.2 storage. Id prefer the OnePlus Nord 4 to be honest.
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- Anonymous
- XVE
- 16 Mar 2025
Actually
I don't like when a company CEO acted arrogant
I prefer when the company of peoduct acted diwn to earth
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- Minu
- IWT
- 16 Mar 2025
Darth Caesium, 16 Mar 2025I mean, on paper both of these devices look great until you... moreAgreed. Instead of using a pedestrian ultrawide, they could've gone for an ultrawide main camera, as seen in Sharp's R8 series. That would've saved some cash for manufacturing, if they can't provide anything sensible.
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- Darth Caesium
- BiP
- 16 Mar 2025
[deleted post]I mean, on paper both of these devices look great until you look at the ultrawide. The 3a Pro should've definitely had an SD 7 Gen 3 and a 50MP ultrawide, but at the same time, a €470 phone with a 3× periscope that uses the LYT-600 for it is a pretty interesting value proposition. Not even Vivo's more expensive €600+ V50 Pro does this, and that phone is already very interesting.
The 3a is very good too. You don't get a telephoto at around this price from anyone else except for Motorola, and their phone is still more expensive.
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- Darth Caesium
- BiP
- 16 Mar 2025
PureOS, 16 Mar 20253a has a chance with 330€ price tag. 3a pro is just to expe... moreWith the Pro's price tag, they could've either used the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 or had a 50MP ultrawide instead of 8MP. Perhaps maybe even SD 7 Gen 3 + 13MP ultrawide using the GalaxyCore GC13A2 sensor?
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- Minu
- IWT
- 16 Mar 2025
Darth Caesium, 16 Mar 2025They're both rather competitive for the price, but the... moreI never expected this brand to go from a marketing-fueled hype machine to a poor value-for-money brand, within the scope of its inception to today. Replacing the distinctive 50MP ultrawide from the first 2 iterations with a pedestrian 8MP ultrawide used in BBK phones is an unforgivable compromise (given that it had been spammed on various Vivo S/Y, IQOO Z series, OnePlus Ace/R series and the Oppo Reno devices in particular).
Also, the HMD Skyline is a better phone overall compared to this, given that it's reduced between 45-60% from it's launch price. This has the same chipset (an iteration newer doesn't mean it's a better purchase for the extra cash), while the HMD has the upper hand for repairability and much better selection of cameras. Looking at the pricing trend of the previous devices, they've overpriced this for no reason imho.
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- Darth Caesium
- BiP
- 16 Mar 2025
vik457, 16 Mar 2025https://en.gcoreinc.com/news/detail-66Saw the exact link when searching up the sensor. It's pretty interesting what GalaxyCore is doing, even if they're relatively small and not widely used outside of in budget and certain mid-range devices.