Back in March, Nothing announced its latest Community Edition project, this time for the Nothing Phone (3a). And today the phone has become official.
Nothing Phone (3a)
Only 1,000 units will ever be made, and if you want one you will have to register from now until December 11. Then there will be “a limited sales window” on December 12 on Nothing’s website.
Nothing received over 700 submissions from members of its community for this one, all with different elements of design, software, accessories, and “visual storytelling”. The winners were Emre Kayganacl for hardware design, Ambrogio Tacconi and Louis Aymond for accessories, Jad Zock for the lock screen clock and wallpaper design, and Sushruta Sarkar for the marketing campaign.
They worked side by side with Nothing’s design, software, marketing, and creative teams in London over the past few months making their vision a reality.
The hardware design is inspired by the aesthetics of the late 90s and early 2000s. The accessory is a box of dice featuring numbers rendered in Nothing’s Ndot 55 font. There’s a custom clock face with a design that “reduces visual clutter and guides the eye intuitively to the key components”, Nothing says. There’s also an exclusive wallpaper designed as “a visual bridge between the rear color and texture to the front interface”.
The specs are identical to the normal Nothing Phone (3a). So you get a 6.77-inch AMOLED screen with 120Hz refresh rate, 2,160Hz PWM dimming, and 3,000-nit peak brightness, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 SoC, a triple rear camera system (50MP main with OIS, 50MP telephoto with 2x optical zoom, 8MP ultrawide), a 32MP selfie snapper, and a 5,000 mAh battery with support for 50W wired charging. The Community Edition comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. It’s priced at £379 / €379 / ₹28,999 / ¥59,800.
