The Only Way to Get a New Nothing Phone 2a
Last year’s Nothing Phone 2 was an overall positive improvement on the Nothing Phone, the company’s first flagship mobile device. The rear LEDs are slightly brighter; The hole punch chamber is located in the center; the display has become a little brighter; and perhaps most importantly, battery life has improved.
And compared to other flagships , the Phone 2 feels like value . The 8GB RAM/128GB storage model starts at $599 (you can even get it with a $50 discount as of this writing). Up the RAM and storage to 12GB and 512GB respectively, and the price tops out at $799, or the price of a base iPhone 15—assuming you pay full price (with those specs, the Nothing Phone 2 will cost you $679 on sale) . Now). Of course, the devices had to make some compromises to achieve this price: the display has a 1080p resolution, which is lower than other phones; The cameras aren’t very impressive (as Marques Brownlee highlights in this YouTube review) , and it’s not as water and dust resistant as other phones in its class .
However, that’s not stopping Nothing from working on a mid-range smartphone to complement the Phone 2. The company plans to call it Nothing Phone 2a, reminiscent of Google’s mid-range Pixel line of devices. To be fair, the company hasn’t explicitly called the Phone 2a a mid-range device, but Nothing’s promotional video implies that the 2a will be cheaper than the Nothing Phone 2 and take advantage of manufacturing efficiencies to save costs. to the end user.
Unfortunately, at the moment nothing more is known about the phone itself. Nothing keeps the 2a stats close to the vest. We only know when the company will launch the device: March 5 during an event that will take place at 6:30 a.m. ET. The company also has a separate event planned during Mobile World Congress later this month. Initial reports suggested that the event would focus on the Nothing Phone 3, but it now seems more likely that they will highlight the Phone 2a.
You won’t be able to just buy the Nothing Phone 2a… yet
We also know that people in the US won’t be able to simply buy the phone like they did Phone 2. Instead, Nothing is making the phone available to developers through the Glyph Developer Kit. The goal is for developers to purchase the Phone 2a through this program to test their apps using the Nothing character system and optimize those apps for the LEDs on the back of the phone.
No further information has been released about the program, so it’s unclear whether you’ll need to be a registered developer to order the Phone 2a, or when (or if) the phone will go on sale directly to consumers. However, as The Verge notes , the first Nothing phone had a similar “Beta Membership” program that charged customers $299 to try out the Phone 1.
Check out Nothing Phone 2:
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Phone 2 (8GB RAM and 128GB storage) : $599 (on sale for $549).
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Phone 2 (12GB and 256GB storage) : $699 (on sale for $599).
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Phone 2 (12GB and 512GB storage) : $799 (on sale for $679).