{"id":104441,"date":"2025-10-29T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/104441\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:17:07","slug":"nothing-phone-3a-lite-strips-the-glyph-lights-down-to-the-bare-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/104441\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Phone 3A Lite strips the Glyph Lights down to the bare minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">After Nothing\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/mobile\/709093\/nothing-phone-3-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flagship Phone 3<\/a> ditched its trademark Glyph Lights in favor of a dot matrix display, the new Phone 3A Lite brings them back \u2014 but only one of them. The affordable phone launches today in the UK and Europe, but won\u2019t get a release in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The 3A Lite features just a single small, round LED in its bottom-right corner, which Nothing says was \u201cinspired by classic notification lights.\u201d It still supports a lot of the same features as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/7\/4\/23783503\/nothing-phone-2-hands-on-mkbhd-glyph-interface\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more complex Glyph Light systems<\/a> though: you can flip the phone face-down to get silent, light-only notifications; set custom light sequences for specific contacts; and use the light as a visual countdown for the camera timer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The rest of the Phone 3A Lite looks like classic Nothing, available in black or white with a semi-transparent rear and a single red accent. The asymmetric camera layout is unlikely to please every detractor of the Phone 3\u2019s controversial design, though to my eyes this looks much better than that phone. I\u2019m just not sure what\u2019s going on with that big section on the back; it looks tantalizingly like it should pop open for easier repairs and battery replacement, but Nothing has confirmed that it\u2019s only intended to look that way \u2014 senior global PR manager Lewis Hopkins told The Verge it\u2019s a \u201csimulated battery design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The 3A Lite is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Pro 5G, together with 8GB of RAM and either 128GB or 256GB of storage, though a microSD card slot supports up to 2TB. The 5,000mAh battery should deliver decent longevity, though the 33W wired charging isn\u2019t especially fast. The 120Hz OLED screen is pretty large at 6.77 inches, and the phone has an IP54 rating too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The 50-megapixel main camera uses a surprisingly large 1\/1.57-inch sensor, with an f\/1.8 aperture, meaning photography might be one of the phone\u2019s strong suits. But only from that camera \u2014 the 8-megapixel ultrawide doesn\u2019t sound all too impressive, and the third rear lens is only a macro. A 16-megapixel selfie camera rounds out the set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Phone 3A Lite is <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fnothing.tech%2Fproducts%2Fphone-3a-lite\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available to buy today<\/a> in the UK and Europe, where it costs \u00a3249 \/ \u20ac249 (around $310) with 128GB of storage, and \u00a3279 \/ \u20ac279 (around $350) to upgrade to 256GB. It runs Nothing OS 3.5, based on last year\u2019s Android 15, and Nothing promises three years of major Android updates and six years of security support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Nothing\u2019s recent flagship Phone 3 ditched its trademark Glyph Lights in favor of a dot matrix display,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[330,85,46,321,43,9015,920,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-104441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phones","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}