Nothing Phone (3)

Can Nothing's first flagship compete in the premier league?

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The Phone (3) is a big play, an attempt by Nothing to take its growing brand from a budget-friendly undercutter to a real contender in the flagship market among the best.

To be clear, it's not competing against the likes of the iPhone 16 Pro or the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Rather, it's aimed at the standard iPhone 16 and Samsung Galaxy S25. Whether it truly competes with those phones toe-to-toe might come down to your attitude and how much you value unique design touches.

That brings us to its pricing, which comes in at £799 for its standard model (with 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM). For those who want more, you can go up to £899 for 512GB of storage and 16GB of RAM.

SPECIFICATIONS

Display 6.67-inch 2800 x 1260 (460 PPI) 4,500-nit 120Hz flexible AMOLED with Corning Gorilla Glass 7i Chipset Snapdragon 8S Gen 4 CPU 8 cores RAM 12GB/16GB Storage 256GB / 512GB Battery 5150mAh Operating system Nothing OS 3.5 powered by Android 15 Camera 50MP wide, 50MP ultrawide, 50MP periscope with 3x zoom rear; 50MP front Weatherproofing IP68 Connectivity USB-C, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0 Dimensions 160.60x75.59x8.99mm Weight 218g

New look

Nothing has made its entire brand out of unique and distinctive design decisions, and there's no doubt that it's continued that strategy with the Phone (3). From the front, this is a fairly typical Android phone, with an all-screen panel and a cutout selfie camera. Turn the phone on its face, though, and its back is a totally different story, full of intricately layered elements of internal parts and visuals. The most eye-catching section falls at the top of the phone, where three camera sensors are arrayed non-symmetrically, along with an LED flash and the all-new Glyph Matrix screen.