Nothing Phone 3a Lite Strips The Glyph Lights Down To The Bare Minimum

Symmetric camera lovers, look distant now.

After Nothing’s caller flagship Phone 3 ditched its trademark Glyph Lights successful favour of a dot matrix display, nan caller Phone 3A Lite brings them backmost — but only 1 of them. The affordable  telephone launches coming successful nan UK and Europe, but won’t get a merchandise successful nan US.

The 3A Lite features conscionable a azygous small, information LED successful its bottom-right corner, which Nothing says was “inspired by classical notification lights.” It still supports a batch of nan aforesaid features arsenic nan more analyzable Glyph Light systems though: you tin flip nan telephone face-down to get silent, light-only notifications; group civilization ray sequences for circumstantial contacts; and usage nan ray arsenic a ocular countdown for nan camera timer.

The remainder of nan Phone 3A Lite looks for illustration classical Nothing, disposable successful achromatic aliases achromatic pinch a semi-transparent rear and a azygous reddish accent. The asymmetric camera layout is improbable to please each detractor of nan Phone 3’s arguable design, though to my eyes this looks overmuch amended than that phone. I’m conscionable not judge what’s going connected pinch that large conception connected nan back; it looks tantalizingly for illustration it should popular unfastened for easier repairs and artillery replacement, but Nothing has confirmed that it’s only intended to look that measurement — senior world PR head Lewis Hopkins told The Verge it’s a “simulated artillery design.”

The 3A Lite is powered by nan MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro 5G, together pinch 8GB of RAM and either 128GB aliases 256GB of storage, though a microSD paper slot supports up to 2TB. The 5,000mAh artillery should present decent longevity, though nan 33W wired charging isn’t particularly fast. The 120Hz OLED surface is beautiful ample astatine 6.77 inches, and nan telephone has an IP54 standing too. 

The 50-megapixel main camera uses a amazingly ample 1/1.57-inch sensor, pinch an f/1.8 aperture, meaning photography mightiness beryllium 1 of nan phone’s beardown suits. But only from that camera — nan 8-megapixel ultrawide doesn’t sound each excessively impressive, and nan 3rd rear lens is only a macro. A 16-megapixel selfie camera rounds retired nan set.

The Phone 3A Lite is available to bargain today successful nan UK and Europe, wherever it costs £249 / €249 (around $310) pinch 128GB of storage, and £279 / €279 (around $350) to upgrade to 256GB. It runs Nothing OS 3.5, based connected past year’s Android 15, and Nothing promises 3 years of awesome Android updates and six years of information support.