{"id":36720,"date":"2025-07-31T11:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36720\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:20:12","slug":"nothing-phone-3-android-16-beta-recruitment-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36720\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Phone (3) Android 16 beta recruitment starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/nothing_phone_(3)_5g-13969.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing Phone (3)<\/a>, you know it runs Android 15, even though Google has already released Android 16. Now, the company is looking for volunteers to enroll in a closed beta of Nothing OS 4.0 based on Android 16 for the Phone (3).<\/p>\n<p>Nothing Phone (3) 5G<\/p>\n<p>The initial build will focus on &#8220;delivering Android 16&#8217;s native features as well as implementing a more robust design system which will set the foundation for a more cohesive UI moving forward&#8221;, Nothing says in its announcement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753960812_469_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Nothing Phone (3) Android 16 beta recruitment starts\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Since this is an early beta build, do keep in mind that bugs are inevitable, issues will occur, and things might break. If that&#8217;s not a problem for you, then you can sign up to be part of the closed beta stage <a href=\"https:\/\/nothing-tech.sg.larksuite.com\/share\/base\/form\/shrlgKaR9D6Cuqepd6CzJXDrRlc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">at this link<\/a>. Note that you have to enroll by the end of this week (specifically, 5 PM London time on Sunday). If you are chosen to participate, you&#8217;ll receive detailed instructions via email, which will arrive next week.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing says you should only apply if you use your Phone (3) daily, are willing to give regular feedback to its team, will maintain &#8220;high standards of information security&#8221;, and understand all the risks associated with using beta software.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing plans to release the first public beta of Nothing OS 4.0 based on Android 16 for the Phone (3) in September. If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about the company&#8217;s first flagship smartphone, don&#8217;t miss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/nothing_phone_3-review-2853.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our in-depth written review<\/a>, or take a look at our video review above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nothing.community\/d\/38691-phone-3-android-16-closed-beta\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you have a Nothing Phone (3), you know it runs Android 15, even though Google has already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,48,190,61],"class_list":["post-36720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}