This flashy Android phone made me forget about the flagships – and the price is scary good

For a tech journalist, this is not a bigger fact when you are in a family gathering, place your phone on the dining table, and the gravity of innovation works. When I am examining the latest iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, etc., the curious eyes, familiar questions and anxious hands of small cousins ​​are almost always guaranteed, but recently, this trend is decreasing.

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Even foldable phones have lost some of their appeal with the mainstream eyes, which I accuse them of stagnation, never deny. But the latest device I am testing, Nothing phone 3A ProIt seems that things have been reinforced. Perhaps this is a transparent back design, shining gulf lights, or an absolute island of a camera collision, “I take good pictures.” It seems that everyone has a different answer.

Now after checking the phone 3A Pro for about a month, I get a conversation. But there is definitely one thing: 9 459, you can’t get a more rounded handset more well.

The product of anything has led to industrial design – as far as creativity and detail are concerned – since the company’s start, and the phone 3A Pro is no different. Whether you choose to finish the black color or slightly more interesting brown, the phone makes a transparent backing that shields different patch, data ribbon and components below.

Like the previous phone, there is a gulf interface, a unique assembly of LED lights that blinks to identify the upcoming information, alerts and timers.

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When he launched the phone 1 for the first time about three years ago, he had not made any big deal of his shining back -core design, but since then, the smart interface has taken the backset. It doesn’t matter to me, as it still fulfills the purpose of becoming a display off -status indicator every time.

In fact, the ability to set a permanent bacon for the specific (hopefully) notifications, such as my wife’s text messages, has allowed me to focus more on other tasks. This is the best thing since the original notification on the phone. He misses?

The rest of the design is equivalent to last year’s phone 2A and 2A Plus, especially if you choose similar visible gray finish (see above). However, Holding Both generations have revealed some major hardware shifts: the previous cover is now made of glass instead of plastic, and the big camera collision makes the phone 3A Pro much heavy.

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In the amazing turning point of events, I would argue that the phone 3A Pro is not yet a minimal aergonomic handset of anything, which has a bulge that only increases the distribution of unequal weight of the phone. Whether screaming news on the subway or visiting the streets of New York City with one hand, I often have to walk to get a safe grip on the phone. A clear case, especially one that comes to a camera can cure it more flush.

At the opposite end – and you’ll have to forgive my Jacker for a moment – I like the placement of the button on the phone 3A Pro. The right side of the right and the necessary keys and the volume on the left are located around the middle of the rocker frame, so they always live at a single click, whether you are holding the phone with your left or right hand.

In particular, the new essential key, which acts as AI-Assisted archiver, is treated with vaccine coating rather than fading, so it is easy to detect.

The essential key, which strengthens the essential space of anything, is one of the more practical AI features I have experienced. The button takes a click screenshot, the AI ​​model configure any text or visual information, and you can attach a note or sound recording for future reference. This is very similar to Google’s Pixel screenshots app, but there is nothing in the ability to make a command.

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In Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, I often save the locations of the local restaurant and the meeting locations, “Remind me to come here FILL TIME. “About 30 minutes before the incident happened, I remind the phone with a screenshot. While this feature works according to the intention, it is not perfect.

In an ideal world, the essential space can be compatible with third -party services like Google Calendar or Gmail. Then, I get a reminder even if I didn’t have my own phone.

Regardless of, I do not appreciate anything to keep its AI actions subtle, at least. Instead of pushing the phone 3A Pro as the next best device to help summarize emails and draft text messages, the company is expanding every other aspect of it, including its camera system and performance.

The big camera upgrades, and what the phone separates from the phone 3A, with the 3x optical zoom is the new 50 MP telephoto lens. The addition of a dedicated parasope camera means that you can capture more distant articles without relying on the digital crop. I took several pictures with a new camera roaming the streets of Barcelona. I found the output competitive with my Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and Xiaomi 15 Ultra, the price of both of them three times higher than the price.

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This is only if you are not going to peek, of course,, of course, because the phone 3A pro can grasp the moment in the natural natural color and vice versa level, but it reduces the sophistication and detail. This is especially a matter of low light photography when the dimming of the environment makes it difficult for the camera to re -reproduce the images properly.

Remember that this is a 9459 phone, so I still rank its production in B -tire. The central wide and telephoto lens will offer you better than getting a similar price from a motorbike and Samsung handset.

Regarding daily performance, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 7S General 3 chip, which was paired with 12GB RAM, obtained by most works on 3A Pro on the phone, which includes loading and cock scrolling through social media feeds, responding to emails, responding to films and videos. Except for the occasional turmoil and dropped frames, I never disappointed when using the phone, while browsing text heavy services like Reddit.

This helps that OS has nothing to do with the clean end of the Android spectrum, which has practically no blotchware or excessive features. (You can even choose the stock Android aesthetic instead of the dot matrix of anything, though I would recommend to be more brave when using such a phone.)

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Finally, the phone 3A Pro is both endurance and charging champion, which has a 5,000 mAh battery that is a flagship competitor and the 50W wired charging rate that defeats them. However, you do not get charging brick in the box, and leaving wireless charging will leave consumers to confront the Motoro Moto Styles 5G (2024) and Google Pixel 8A with midfire phones.

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This is to say Nothing phone 3A Pro Its price limit is more than any phone, but from polarizing design to the most unique features, checking many boxes, making it like a flagship phones to force tech fans. During the test, I even considered several iPhone users on the iPhone 3A Pro, whether it was for digital welfare to promote golf lights or fashion user interface.

The phone has a catch with 3A Pro and usually doesn’t have anything: US beta program, a sign -up to bio procedure that is accessible only through the web store of anything. (You can argue that this is a way that the company is reducing costs from its US phone.)

Although buying anything directly does not come with your standard manufacturer’s warranty and a 30 -day return period, afterslas support (read: alternate parts search and connecting various cellular networks) is especially less structured than your normal carrier store. Trade deals are less aggressive, and compared to the traditional installment project, you will buy off -contract and unlock the phone.