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so it calls up my bud Carl pay it says hey I need a new phone what do you got

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for me and he goes

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nothing get it today we're going to be

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taking a look at the nothing phone 3A and 3A Pro two more entries in nothing's

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utterly confusing product lineup these

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are successors to the 2A but in spite of

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the pro moniker on the 3A Pro it is is a

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lesser phone compared to the nothing phone 2 which still hasn't gotten a free

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replac oh my God look at the size of

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that camera bump good gravy any who

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let's take a look at the packaging first we've got a ctoc cable

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and little cute Sim removal tool so

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clear and that's it nothing advertises up to 50 W charging on these phones

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allowing each of them to top up their 5,000 milliamp batteries in less than an

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hour but you will have to beo charger let's take a look at these devices

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starting with the similarities on the bottom a USBC Port speaker and SIM tray

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on uh this side we get a volume rocker on the top side we get a little

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microphone port for noise cancellation and finally on the right hand side we

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get the lock button and that's right the AI button but it might not be that

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stupid the idea here is that it gives you quick access to essential space a

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Beta app that is included with all 3A and 3A Pro phones that's meant to be

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kind of a repository for your thoughts

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uh journal ideas or just reminders

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things you want to deal with say for example I were to hold it down and say I

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finally thought of that rhyme for dingle hopper jingle

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bopper that is going to head into my Essential space which oh I can also

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access by double clicking a little bit of AI analysis

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happens in the background and then it creates one of these little cards that

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tells me what exactly it was that I was thinking in that

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moment eventually while we're waiting for that oh hey there we

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go transcription and a little summary of

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what it was that I did look at that you can play the audio too I finally thought

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of that rhyme for dingle hopper jingle bopper nice I really like this mouse pad

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I'll have to figure out where to get it later I could see myself using this if

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it was more like a photo zap like if I just every time I took a picture I could

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just yiy Yak at my phone for a second and then it would just store that audio

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clip with it I could see myself using it for that a lot of the time I'd be more

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likely to just open up Google Lens or use the Google Assistant like hey I

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would like to buy this mouse

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pad useless essential space then why

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don't we talk specs because the 3A is more of a sequel to the 2A it actually

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has a less powerful Snapdragon 7 gen 3

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processor compared to the nothing phone 2 in practice this resulted in lower

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performance pretty much across the board but especially in gaming coming in at

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around half the performance of the already not class leading nothing phone

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2 the good news is that outside of gaming things don't look so bad and

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nothing is committing to six years of security updates on these phones even

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though they're only providing 3 years of full Android upgrades with that said

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given the price I don't think that this is entirely unreasonable it's also not

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today now let's talk a few more of the specs both of these phones ship with up

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to 256 gigs of storage and up to 12 gigs

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of RAM though the regular 3A can be

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available with 8 gigs of RAM RAM and 128 gigs of storage depending on your region

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another big difference as I teased before when I showed these camera bumps

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side by side is that the 3A pro has a 50

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megapixel 3x optical zoom optically image stabilized Periscope lens built in

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they both have the same 50 megap main shooter the same 8 megapix Ultra wide

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but it's that telephoto that's really the difference oh and also the selfie

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camera on the regular 3A it's 32 Maps

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while on the 3A Pro it's 50 megapixels although I have to say I do wonder if

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that's going to make a significant difference let's take some selfies shall

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we I love selfies wow those skin tones are very

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different is how much more yellow I look in that one oh yeah oh yeah

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bud look at the detail and the eyelashes

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if you really get in there yep that's more megapixels all

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right man seriously how does this thing even wirelessly charge with like oh do

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they not have wireless charging that's a downer yep no coils and there's some

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more downers they both support Wi-Fi 6 which is okay but not exactly the latest

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standard and both have support for only

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ip64 water resistant so they're dust tight but I wouldn't do any more than

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get an incidental Splash on them certainly do not submerge them okay my

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classic picture of Bell in the dark that is very similar which makes sense given

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that they are supposed to be the same camera but if we switch to our

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telephoto it will all change

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oof oh dude dude the skin

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tones um he does not look like that can't

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confirm that's not what I look like yeah see that's not that yeah that that's the

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right one this one looks really good though like dude considering that you're

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sitting in the dark like that's freaking sharp it is possible that part of it is

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differences in the screen we did notice the tint was a little bit different when

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we were comparing them in the Labs but we can resolve that by just opening up

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little YouTube and maybe firing up some HDR footage that's not bad on the 3A

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okay we're going to give it a sec we'll do crab Rave after but yeah First

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Impressions not bad here's another difference we noticed while both are

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supposed to have exactly the same 6.77 in display the 3A Pro consistently was

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anywhere from 100 to 200 nits brighter in our testing speaking of brightness

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nothing claims up to 2,000 2,000 right

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3,000 nits Peak brightness we were not able to measure anywhere near that in

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any kind of real world usage either with auto brightness enabled and SDR and

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HDR nowhere oh right the speakers do you

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think they'll both be the same I mean the cutout looks the same let's try the

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pro first

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Amplified Earp speaker always love to see that get that stereo

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sound little muddy mids not the most defined bass I've ever heard but

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certainly acceptable it gets nice and Loud another Amplified Earp speaker this

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time on the 3A I'd bet money those are the exact

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same speakers something we wouldn't notice in videos but that feels nice

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when just using the devices is both of them support variable refresh rate up to

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120 HZ on their displays but not all the

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way down to 1 Herz so you won't get any power savings there but it is worth

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noting that the power efficiency of these phones and this seems to mostly

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come down to the new processor is pretty darn good while we didn't reach the

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claimed what was it like 28 hours of YouTube video playback that nothing said

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we did get about 19 hours on both of these phones which is a pretty solid

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showing all right so All That Remains then is to talk about the design it's

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been a little bit polarizing to say the least but quite frankly if nothing's

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designs didn't already put you off then I don't really see how this is going to

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push you over the edge it's got their same glyph interface thing that'll kind

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of light up when someone calls you actually we should probably play around with that a little

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bit it's still cool honestly and it comes at a pretty reasonable price

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especially when you consider you know Apple's charging $600 for the iPhone 16e

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so the regular 3A is 379 bucks that's

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the 12 gigs 256 gig version and then the 3A Pro is going to cost you about

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another $80 for the better camera and better other

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camera I mean that's about it right it

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really is a better telephoto camera I'll say that much part of me is tempted

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right like it's good enough although if the reason that I didn't switch to the

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s25 was that they ditched the Bluetooth

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remote capture for the selfie camera then I can't very well justify switching

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to a phone that also doesn't have that and doesn't have a stylus at all oh

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there's some other colors to consider before I make a decision whether to switch to this or not so we've got black

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and blue and gray white and black wow uh

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oh wait no there we go uh

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huh so bold even with all the cool colors I'm

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not sure if I'm ready to commit to switching to this right now now maybe the nothing phone 3 will woo me because

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their OS actually does seem really clean

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um really thoughtful just wouldn't mind gorilla

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glass instead of panda glass you know better

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processor a little bit more of a semi- flagship

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