If you want a fun smartphone on a budget, the Nothing Phone (2a) could be a winner. Sitting beneath the Phone (2) in Nothing's roster, it combines a pared-back take on the firm's glyph lighting around the back – introduced on the Nothing Phone (1) – with the dot matrix UI that's been cooking at Nothing HQ over the last couple of years, matched with blippy ring tones aplenty and an iPhone-like silhouette.
The lowest-cost phone from the London-based firm, Nothing has cut back in a few areas beyond the glyph lights with the (2a). It misses out on wireless charging, a glass and metal design, and its camera specs are more modest than those of the Phone (1) and (2). Getting into a few specifics, it packs a Samsung sensor for the main camera, and the ultra-wide camera lens doesn't sport autofocus.
