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subscribe to ShortCircuit","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"so it calls up my bud Carl pay it says hey I need a new phone what do you got for me and he goes nothing get it today we're going to be taking a look at the nothing phone 3A and 3A Pro two more entries in nothing's utterly confusing product lineup these are successors to the 2A but in spite of the pro moniker on the 3A Pro it is is a lesser phone compared to the nothing phone 2 which still hasn't gotten a free replac oh my God look at the size of that camera bump good gravy any who let's take a look at the packaging first we've got a ctoc cable and little cute Sim removal tool so clear and that's it nothing advertises up to 50 W charging on these phones allowing each of them to top up their 5,000 milliamp batteries in less than an hour but you will have to beo charger let's take a look at these devices starting with the similarities on the bottom a USBC Port speaker and SIM tray on uh this side we get a volume rocker on the top side we get a little microphone port for noise cancellation and finally on the right hand side we get the lock button and that's right the AI button but it might not be that stupid the idea here is that it gives you quick access to essential space a Beta app that is included with all 3A and 3A Pro phones that's meant to be kind of a repository for your thoughts uh journal ideas or just reminders things you want to deal with say for example I were to hold it down and say I finally thought of that rhyme for dingle hopper jingle bopper that is going to head into my Essential space which oh I can also access by double clicking a little bit of AI analysis happens in the background and then it creates one of these little cards that tells me what exactly it was that I was thinking in that moment eventually while we're waiting for that oh hey there we go transcription and a little summary of what it was that I did look at that you can play the audio too I finally thought of that rhyme for dingle hopper jingle bopper nice I really like this mouse pad I'll have to figure out where to get it later I could see myself using this if it was more like a photo zap like if I just every time I took a picture I could just yiy Yak at my phone for a second and then it would just store that audio clip with it I could see myself using it for that a lot of the time I'd be more likely to just open up Google Lens or use the Google Assistant like hey I would like to buy this mouse pad useless essential space then why don't we talk specs because the 3A is more of a sequel to the 2A it actually has a less powerful Snapdragon 7 gen 3 processor compared to the nothing phone 2 in practice this resulted in lower performance pretty much across the board but especially in gaming coming in at around half the performance of the already not class leading nothing phone 2 the good news is that outside of gaming things don't look so bad and nothing is committing to six years of security updates on these phones even though they're only providing 3 years of full Android upgrades with that said given the price I don't think that this is entirely unreasonable it's also not unreasonable for me to take a short break and tell you about our sponsor say goodbye to overpriced roaming charges with s eim plans with over 200 destinations where you can get reliable coverage all you have to do is set things up before you head off on your trip and you will be connected on arrival no more dealing with shoddy unsecure airport Wi-Fi and if you encounter any issues their 247 support team is there to help you out plus plus if you end up grabbing a regular nothing phone 3A or a phone that doesn't have eim compatibility s's got your back and will give you a full refund if you purchased accidentally so go to s.com sshort circuit or scan the QR code on screen to download the app and use code ShortCircuit to save 15% on your plan today now let's talk a few more of the specs both of these phones ship with up to 256 gigs of storage and up to 12 gigs of RAM though the regular 3A can be available with 8 gigs of RAM RAM and 128 gigs of storage depending on your region another big difference as I teased before when I showed these camera bumps side by side is that the 3A pro has a 50 megapixel 3x optical zoom optically image stabilized Periscope lens built in they both have the same 50 megap main shooter the same 8 megapix Ultra wide but it's that telephoto that's really the difference oh and also the selfie camera on the regular 3A it's 32 Maps while on the 3A Pro it's 50 megapixels although I have to say I do wonder if that's going to make a significant difference let's take some selfies shall we I love selfies wow those skin tones are very different is how much more yellow I look in that one oh yeah oh yeah bud look at the detail and the eyelashes if you really get in there yep that's more megapixels all right man seriously how does this thing even wirelessly charge with like oh do they not have wireless charging that's a downer yep no coils and there's some more downers they both support Wi-Fi 6 which is okay but not exactly the latest standard and both have support for only ip64 water resistant so they're dust tight but I wouldn't do any more than get an incidental Splash on them certainly do not submerge them okay my classic picture of Bell in the dark that is very similar which makes sense given that they are supposed to be the same camera but if we switch to our telephoto it will all change oof oh dude dude the skin tones um he does not look like that can't confirm that's not what I look like yeah see that's not that yeah that that's the right one this one looks really good though like dude considering that you're sitting in the dark like that's freaking sharp it is possible that part of it is differences in the screen we did notice the tint was a little bit different when we were comparing them in the Labs but we can resolve that by just opening up little YouTube and maybe firing up some HDR footage that's not bad on the 3A okay we're going to give it a sec we'll do crab Rave after but yeah First Impressions not bad here's another difference we noticed while both are supposed to have exactly the same 6.77 in display the 3A Pro consistently was anywhere from 100 to 200 nits brighter in our testing speaking of brightness nothing claims up to 2,000 2,000 right 3,000 nits Peak brightness we were not able to measure anywhere near that in any kind of real world usage either with auto brightness enabled and SDR and HDR nowhere oh right the speakers do you think they'll both be the same I mean the cutout looks the same let's try the pro first Amplified Earp speaker always love to see that get that stereo sound little muddy mids not the most defined bass I've ever heard but certainly acceptable it gets nice and Loud another Amplified Earp speaker this time on the 3A I'd bet money those are the exact same speakers something we wouldn't notice in videos but that feels nice when just using the devices is both of them support variable refresh rate up to 120 HZ on their displays but not all the way down to 1 Herz so you won't get any power savings there but it is worth noting that the power efficiency of these phones and this seems to mostly come down to the new processor is pretty darn good while we didn't reach the claimed what was it like 28 hours of YouTube video playback that nothing said we did get about 19 hours on both of these phones which is a pretty solid showing all right so All That Remains then is to talk about the design it's been a little bit polarizing to say the least but quite frankly if nothing's designs didn't already put you off then I don't really see how this is going to push you over the edge it's got their same glyph interface thing that'll kind of light up when someone calls you actually we should probably play around with that a little bit it's still cool honestly and it comes at a pretty reasonable price especially when you consider you know Apple's charging $600 for the iPhone 16e so the regular 3A is 379 bucks that's the 12 gigs 256 gig version and then the 3A Pro is going to cost you about another $80 for the better camera and better other camera I mean that's about it right it really is a better telephoto camera I'll say that much part of me is tempted right like it's good enough although if the reason that I didn't switch to the s25 was that they ditched the Bluetooth remote capture for the selfie camera then I can't very well justify switching to a phone that also doesn't have that and doesn't have a stylus at all oh there's some other colors to consider before I make a decision whether to switch to this or not so we've got black and blue and gray white and black wow uh oh wait no there we go uh huh so bold even with all the cool colors I'm not sure if I'm ready to commit to switching to this right now now maybe the nothing phone 3 will woo me because their OS actually does seem really clean um really thoughtful just wouldn't mind gorilla glass instead of panda glass you know better processor a little bit more of a semi- flagship experience subscribe to ShortCircuit"}