Nothing confirms Phone 3 processor, launch set for July 1 in India and globally
As we head to the Nothing Phone 3 launch on July 1, details of the device have started trickling in. Today, Nothing is revealing that the Phone 3 will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset. Now, this news will come as a surprise to some. This is because among the people who track such stuff there was an impression that the Nothing Phone 3 would be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, largely because in its next phone Nothing is promising to go all-in as far as the flagship hardware is concerned. Well, as far as the chipset is concerned, Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 it is for the Nothing Phone 3. advertisementSo, what does it bring, this chipset? Here's a quick look at what you can expect from the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 inside the Phone 3: you have an 8-core CPU with one Cortex-X4 core clocked at 3.2GHz, three Cortex-A720 cores at 3GHz, two Cortex-A720 cores at 2.8GHz, and two Cortex-A720 cores at 2GHz. In other words, it has all big cores and so, one can expect better multi-core performance over last year's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, though it remains to be seen by how much. While it is possible that a Snapdragon 8 Elite or even last year's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 could have a more befitting chipset for a phone that Nothing is hoping to pitch as truly top-end flagship devices, we will have to see as a package what the device offers. It is expected that the Nothing Phone 3 would compete with the likes of the Galaxy S25, OnePlus 13 and the iPhone 16. On that note, its chipset may come across as one tier below the top chipsets. advertisement
Having said that, it is possible Nothing is taking an approach similar to Google Pixel 9 series phones. They are also flagship and top-tier phones despite their chipset being based on slightly older Samsung Exynos tech. However, despite their chipset, the Pixel 9 phones offer the kind of experience that makes them true Android flagships. Compared to that, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 will surely have much more oomph. Just like the previous Nothing phones, this time around too, we expect the Nothing Phone 3 to come with its signature industrial design with transparent back, or at least a patterned and chiselled back. One big change that is expected in terms of design is that the signature Glyph Lights are no longer going to be there. Instead of that, we are expecting the Nothing Phone 3 to carry either dot matrix display on the back or use some other innovative method to provide functionality that the Glyph lights do in the current Nothing phones. The Nothing Phone 3, as noted earlier, is going to launch on July 1 in London. At the same event, Nothing is also hoping to launch its first over-the-ears Headphones 1, which is expected to compete with the likes of Sony and Bose. The possible price of the Nothing 3 is difficult to guess at the moment, but given its chipset and the way Nothing has so far talked about it — 'true flagship' as they say — it is safe to assume that it could be priced somewhere between Rs 50,000 to Rs 60,000.
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