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Nothing Unexciting About These Mid-Range Phones!
The Nothing Phone (3a) and (3a) Pro are here — and I’ve been playing with them!
Nothing has launched two new mid-range smartphones. They’re called the Nothing Phone 3a and the Nothing Phone 3a Pro, and they are super interesting.
Because of course they are. This is Nothing — they do interesting stuff with tech, which, if you’re a tech reviewer, is good news, because things have got rather dull and impossible to cover with any form of enthusiasm thanks to the onslaught of AI over the last couple of years.
This doesn’t mean that Nothing has ignored AI. On the contrary, they’ve done something — you guessed it — interesting with artificial intelligence which, while far from perfect, demonstrates a user-first approach to something that has become ubiquitous-yet-largely-useless.
Strip that back, though, and these are two mid-range phones which demand attention and which definitely require some explanation in terms of the differences between each device.
