Whatever you say, but the company definitely has bold and recognizable designs. The new (4A) series comes with the latest evolutions of those designs and shakes up the (3A) series formula.
Nothing Phone (4A) and Nothing Phone (4A) Pro
Last year’s (3A) and (3A) Pro were largely differentiated by their cameras. The new Pro model still offers a better camera than its vanilla sibling, but only just – instead, it now also stands out with a larger display, faster chipset, better build and the same glyph matrix as the phone’s (3) flagships.
Nothing Phone (4A) Pro Drops the plastic frame of the (3A) and brings in a metal unibody design. It’s also thinner at 7.95mm (down from 8.4mm), but weighs the same (despite using metal instead of plastic). The phone is rated IP65 – nothing could meet the requirements of IP67, so it claims the phone can survive submersion up to 25cm for 20 minutes (instead of the usual 100cm for 30 minutes).
Nothing Phone (4A) Pro
The Pro is powered by the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4. Compared to the 7S Gen 3 chip used in both the (3A) and (3A) Pro, it promises a 27% increase in CPU performance, a 30% increase in graphics, and a 65% jump in AI performance.
The phone doesn’t have fast LPDDR5X RAM, 8 or 12GB, and, as promised, UFS 3.1 storage in 128GB or 256GB capacity. Compared to the previous model’s UFS 2.2, the new storage has up to 147% faster read speeds. For sustained performance, Nothing placed a 5,300 mm² vapor chamber on top of the chipset.
As we mentioned above, the Pro has a new display – a 6.83″ 144Hz OLED panel. Its brightness is 5,000 nits, modulated with 2,160Hz high-frequency PWM dimming. The display’s resolution is 1,260 x 2,800px (up from 1080p+ resolution) and it’s protected by Gorilla Glass 7i.
The Nothing Phone (4a) Pro has a 6.83” 144Hz OLED display
The camera system features a 50MP Sony Lytia 700c sensor (same size as last year, 1/1.56″) combined with an f/1.88 lens with OIS. The main camera can record 4K 30fps Ultra Can be increased up to 7x with in-sensor zoom.
Nothing Phone (4a) Pro has a 50+50+8MP camera
The ultra-wide camera doesn’t get any love – it’s the same 120° 8MP unit with a Sony IMX355 sensor as last year. The front camera is worse than before – it now has a 32MP 1/3.42” sensor, which is down from the (3a) Pro’s 50MP 1/2.76” sensor.
Nothing Phone (4A) It has a similar set of cameras – a 50MP main with an f/1.88 OIS lens with one notable difference being that it uses a 1/1.57″ Samsung GN9 sensor instead of the Sony sensor. The 3.5x 50MP periscope, 8MP ultra-wide and 32MP selfie camera use the same hardware as the Pro. Last year, the (3a) was beefed up with a smaller tele lens (2x vs 3x on the Pro). And a lower resolution selfie module (32MP vs 50MP). It’s just the main camera that’s different this year, it can only do Ultra XDR at 1080p 30fps, it can record 4K 30fps video but without the extra XDR colors.
The Nothing Phone (4A) has almost the same camera setup as the (4A) Pro
The vanilla model almost completely misses out on the chipset upgrade – the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 is technically a newer generation than the previous model’s 7s Gen 3, but it only promises a 7% increase in CPU and GPU performance and 10% better efficiency. A promise is a promise, so the vanilla phone still gets the UFS 3.1 upgrade (256GB). However, it uses slower LPDDR4X RAM (8/12GB) and does not have a vapor chamber.
While the (4a) uses a different display than the Pro, it’s a definite upgrade over last year’s display – the 6.78″ OLED panel now has a 1,224 x 2,720px resolution (up from 1,080 x 2,392px) and can reach 4,500 nits of brightness (up from 3,000 nits). It’s protected by the same Gorilla Glass 7i as the Pro. (Double the scratch resistance of last year’s Panda Glass) and has a refresh rate of 120Hz.
Nothing Phone (4A)
The vanilla (4a) boasts a lower IP64 rating (versus IP65 on the Pro), but it still has the odd 25cm submersion rating for a 20-minute submersion rating. More importantly, it misses out on the upgrade to metal and has an 8.55mm thick plastic body.
The Nothing Phone (4A) and (4A) Pro both have 5,080mAh batteries – which is the smallest upgrade over the 5,000mAh batteries of their predecessors. The units for India are an exception to this as they will have a capacity of 5,400mAh.
Either way, the phones only support 50W wired-charging as before. There is no claim that the battery will retain at least 90% of its original capacity after 1,200 charge cycles (which is better than the typical 80% claim from other manufacturers).
We should talk about the back. (4A) The Pro has a Glyph Matrix – a circular dot matrix display with 137 LEDs. That’s significantly less than the 489 LEDs of the phone’s (3) Glyph Matrix, but in some ways it’s more practical – the circle is 57% larger and the LEDs are twice as bright, reaching 3,000 nits. This can make a very good torch.
Glyph bar of (4A) and glyph matrix of (4A) Pro
Vanilla (4a) has a glyph bar. Instead of the free-form arrangement of previous models, the LEDs are now lined up with 6 segments at a time with a red recording LED below them. There are a total of 63 LEDs and they can achieve up to 3,500 nits of brightness, which is 40% brighter than the (3A) Glyph interface.
Both phones come with Nothing OS 4.1 (based on Android 16). There is no promise of 3 OS updates and 6 years of security patches. This is the same support window as the (3a) model.
Nothing Phone (4A) in black, white, blue and pink
Pre-orders for the Nothing Phone (4A) begin today, March 5, and the open sale begins March 13 (Friday next week). The Nothing Phone (4A) Pro will arrive later – pre-orders begin on the 13th and sales begin on the 27th. You can find the phone on none.tech and choose a partner.
Nothing Phone (4A) Pro in black, silver and pink
Prices for both phones are below – and yes, these are US prices for the Pro models. This makes it the first phone A-series model to be available in the US. However, the vanilla model will not be available.
| Europe | UK | India | We | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nothing Phone (4A) | ||||
| 8/128GB | €350 | £350 | ₹32,000 | – |
| 8/256GB | €390 | – | ₹35,000 | – |
| 12/256GB | €430 | £400 | ₹38,000 | – |
| Nothing Phone (4A) Pro | ||||
| 8/128GB | €480 | £500 | ₹40,000 | $500 |
| 8/256GB | – | – | ₹43,000 | – |
| 12/256GB | €550 | £550 | ₹46,000 | $600 |