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1 NOTHING PHONE (3) From £799, nothing.tech

So here it is - Nothing's first flagship phone. Pro-grade camera package, snappy processor, big battery, crispy screen, all the geometric design you can shake a stick at; it's got the lot, as you'd expect. And we can't help but be slightly wowed. It's distinctly Nothing, as you'd hope, but somehow much more.

Everything important seems more or less up to speed; the triple camera rear package gets optical zoom and stabilisation, with a large enough main sensor for solid low-light performance and the ability to shoot 4K 60fps video from whichever lens takes your fancy. Powering the cameras is a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset, and you can view your shots through the Phone (3)'s huge 6.67-inch 1.5K 120Hz AMOLED display, surrounded by sub-2mm bezels and hitting a peak brightness of 4,500 nits in HDR.

Premium materials also set this apart. The frame is aluminium. The rear is glass. The giant 5,150mAh battery is an innovative silicon-carbon mix, enough for a full day's charge and capable of being juiced up at 15W wirelessly or 65W at the wall. All of this in a package that's designed to impress, and absolutely does.

Whether or not this is the handset which catapults Nothing into the upper echelons, it's a shot fired against the flagship makers of the world: the appetite for something special is there, and we might just be nearing the end of the boring rectangle era of smartphones. Wouldn't that be refreshing?

POWER... DOWN?

A flagship this may be, but a power user phone it is not. The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset is a big step up from the Phone (2) in CPU, GPU and NPU terms, but a step down from the Snapdragon 8 Elite found in phones like the Galaxy S25 Ultra and OnePlus 13. Will it matter? As long as it's snappy, probably not.