Nothing leaked about everything about its Nothing Phone 4a before its big reveal on March 5, but the company was almost completely silent about the Pro variant. As it turns out, it’s the most interesting tool in the group.
Like last year’s Nothing Phone 3a and 3a Pro, the 4a and 4a Pro are both mid-rangers in the air, but the Pro isn’t the same phone with less powerful specs. Instead, it has a completely different design and some unique features that are new to the product.
Starting with the Nothing Phone 4a, which we saw (in abundance) at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, it has a 6.78-inch, 120Hz, AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chip, 8/12GB of RAM, and 128/256GB of storage. On the back, there is a triple camera system with a 50-megapixel main camera, a 50-megapixel periscope telephoto camera with 3.5x optical zoom, and an ultrawide camera (for some reason, the company does not provide details about it), combined with a 32-megapixel selfie camera on the front.
Not a very strong pink, but pink: Nothing Phone 4a.
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It has a 5,080mAh battery with 50W charging, and comes in Pink, White, Black, and Blue. On the back, there’s a straightforward Glyph Bar, a Nothing-specific feature that can display incoming calls or text, be a tracking bar like food delivery, or a battery charge indicator.
The Nothing Phone 4a will start at around 350 euros in Europe; will not be available in the US
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The Nothing Phone 4a Pro shares the same battery, memory and storage sizes. But it has a bigger display (6.83 inches), a more advanced chip (Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 4), and a more powerful camera system, with a bigger sensor on the main camera (again, we don’t know the ultrawide specs, but it seems to be the same as the one on the Nothing Phone 4a).
You have to give it Nothing, its phones always look very new.
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The Nothing Phone 4a Pro also has a very different design. Instead of a plastic chassis, it has a metal unibody, which may have allowed Nothing to reduce its thickness to 7.95mm (this makes it the thinnest Nothing phone). It also has a different camera arrangement on the back, and a Glyph Matrix instead of a bar, a circular arrangement of 137 mini-LEDs that is now a small display on the back of the phone. What’s new: We saw it in last year’s flagship, the Nothing Phone 3, but it’s nice to see the company bring it to its mid-range phone.
It’s easy to discount a phone from a list of specs, but what makes both of these phones stand out from the crowd is their slightly bare design. Not only is it different from anything else on the market, but it also changes completely from one Nothing iteration to the next.
The Nothing Phone 4a Pro comes in Pink, Silver, and Black.
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The Nothing Phone 4a Pro will be available in Black, Silver, and Pink.
As for pricing, the Nothing Phone 4a Pro will start at $499, and unlike its sibling, it will actually arrive in the US later in March.
Finally, the company also introduced new over-ear headphones with a fake battery life.
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