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Digital Camera World
Gareth Bevan

Nothing Phone (3) review: flagship phone, but not flagship cameras

Nothing Phone (3) held in a hand.

In a sea of samey devices, how can you turn two sheets of glass and some cameras into a unique but still cool-looking phone? This is a question that Nothing has continuously strived to answer with its design-focused devices offering a refreshing alternative to the bevy of options sporting similarly sized screens, processing power, and promises of top-spec imaging.

The Nothing Phone (3) continues this design-led approach, but this time, it’s shedding the budget flagship-alternative approach, with Nothing officially declaring the Phone (3) the brand's first bona fide flagship device. Although ‘flagship’ is somewhat of a vague term. The Phone (3) isn’t intended to compete with the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, iPhone 16 Pro, or Pixel 9 Pro XL – rather, the more vanilla version of those flagships, i.e., the regular Samsung Galaxy S25, iPhone 16, or Pixel 9.

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