{"id":6589,"date":"2025-07-18T22:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6589\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:49:11","slug":"nothing-phone-3-reparability-and-durability-becomes-clear-in-new-teardown-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6589\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Phone (3) reparability and durability becomes clear in new teardown video"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nothing Phone (3)<\/a> has launched with a design that could most charitably be described as deconstructed, particularly around its camera hump and new Glyph Matrix. The famous YouTuber Zach Nelson of the JerryRigEverything<\/a> channel has been a little kinder to it in comparing it to a Picasso painting. <\/p>\n

The Phone (3) has a rear panel littered with detailing apparently inspired by “an artist’s interpretation of what the inside of a smartphone looks like”, which, ironically, makes it a little more difficult to remove<\/a> than that of the average Android handset. <\/p>\n

The Glyph Matrix<\/a> itself is also an entire extra part that might need to be replaced should it break. The good news is that it, unlike the Phone (3)’s cameras, is located under<\/a> the smartphone’s clear glass rear panel and is thus probably more safe from damage <\/p>\n

The “interface” is made of 489 individual LEDs and is controlled by a little capacitive button on the rear panel. As it turns out, Nothing has had to source a wireless charging<\/a> coil that caves in on 1 side in order to accommodate it. <\/p>\n

According to the latest rumors, that kind of component might be seen again soon once the iPhone 17 Pro<\/a> is available to tear down. <\/p>\n

The Phone (3)’s JerryRigEverything appearance may also prove that it has the scratch-, burn- and bend-resistance of the average upper-tier<\/a> Android<\/a> smartphone<\/a>, despite its looks. <\/p>\n

The Essential Key is presented as another novel feature of the Phone (3), even though it is clearly the Nothing<\/a> equivalent of OnePlus’ Plus Key<\/a>. This version of the button is coated in a shiny material which, as Nelson has discovered, is very susceptible to scratches and might degrade in appearance with normal use.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In addition, it seems the Phone (3)<\/a>‘s camera rings are quite raised and could also be damaged should the user do something like take a set of Mohs hardness picks to its 6.67-inch AMOLED display. <\/p>\n

Nothing claims to have used 80% recycled steel, 100% recycled aluminum and 100% renewable energy in the Phone (3)’s manufacture, making it potentially more sustainable at least. <\/p>\n

That might not offset the device’s other, already widely-discussed shortcomings, chief among which are its sub-premium Snapdragon 8s Gen 4<\/a> SoC and relatively small battery (stay tuned for our full review to find out for sure). <\/p>\n

The latter spec (which only gets as good as 5,500mAh in India) might only start to look worse compared to what the rest of 2025 might have in store<\/a> for the smartphone market. <\/p>\n

Then again, the Nothing Phone (3) is now priced at $799<\/a> on Amazon, compared to well over $1,000 for some more ‘normal’ Android<\/a> flagships<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Deirdre<\/a>Deirdre O Donnell<\/a> – Senior Tech Writer – 8530 articles published on Notebookcheck since 2018<\/p>\n

I became a professional writer and editor shortly after graduation. My degrees are in biomedical sciences; however, they led to some experience in the biotech area, which convinced me of its potential to revolutionize our health, environment and lives in general. This developed into an all-consuming interest in more aspects of tech over time: I can never write enough on the latest electronics, gadgets and innovations. My other interests include imaging, astronomy, and streaming all the things. Oh, and coffee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nothing Phone (3) has launched with a design that could most charitably be described as deconstructed, particularly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1121,7322,214,49,48,215,7324,207,190,213,206,7103,7321,7318,7319,7323,216,212,208,209,1574,7320,61,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-6589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-android-15","10":"tag-benchmarks","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-graphics-card","14":"tag-jerryrigeverything","15":"tag-laptop","16":"tag-mobile","17":"tag-netbook","18":"tag-notebook","19":"tag-nothing","20":"tag-nothing-os-3-3","21":"tag-nothing-phone","22":"tag-nothing-phone-3","23":"tag-periscope-zoom","24":"tag-processor","25":"tag-reports","26":"tag-review","27":"tag-reviews","28":"tag-smartphone","29":"tag-snapdragon-8s-gen-4","30":"tag-technology","31":"tag-test","32":"tag-tests"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589","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=6589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}