A spokesperson said Nothing has no plans to lower the price of the Phone 3, saying the startup\u2019s margins are key to continued investment. Most of the cost complaints are coming from users in India, the spokesperson added, which \u201cisn\u2019t the core focus market\u201d for the Phone 3, according to the company. \u201cWe\u2019ve designed our product portfolio with different price points to serve different regions, and we have other offerings in the range that are more India-focused,\u201d the representative said.<\/p>\n
Like other phone makers, Nothing is layering in more artificial intelligence-powered software features. The Phone 3 includes Google\u2019s Gemini assistant, which can quickly be accessed from a search bar in the app drawer. There\u2019s also a dedicated AI hardware button that triggers what the company calls the Essential Space. Pressing this key takes a screenshot, and you can write down a short note or record a voice memo that gets attached to it. Holding the button starts a voice memo recording, and then Nothing uses AI to summarize what\u2019s captured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nothing isn\u2019t pushing AI to an overbearing degree. But the flipside is that there isn\u2019t anything special or unique about the company\u2019s own AI feature set \u2014 little that would lure users away from Gemini, Anthropic\u2019s Claude chatbot\u00a0or other options. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to lead with gimmicks and set super high expectations \u2014\u00a0tell a big story and then under-deliver on the product,\u201d Pei said.<\/p>\n
That encapsulates the Phone 3 as a whole. It\u2019s a fine Android phone, and one whose design stands out from the crowd.\u00a0But flagship phones need to be great on all fronts. The Phone 3 is good enough at most things, but lacks a special trick that might set it\u00a0apart from better-known smartphone competitors. The Glyph Matrix, at least in its current form, isn\u2019t that.<\/p>\n
At its current price, the\u00a0handset is too expensive for what it offers. The hardware specifications\u00a0aren\u2019t on the level of Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S25. The camera can\u2019t keep up with Google\u2019s Pixel 9. And for however boring\u00a0an iPhone might seem to the Nothing faithful, it\u2019s still a more cohesive, better overall package.<\/p>\n
It would\u00a0be easier to make a case for the Phone 3 if it were\u00a0$500 or $600. Distinctive looks and a gimmicky\u00a0second screen don\u2019t warrant this much of a premium, but for the right price, the device might resonate with consumers tired of the same smartphone look and feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson said Nothing has no plans to lower the price of the Phone 3, saying the startup\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,4427,4429,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-34381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-nothing-phone","tag-smartphone","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}