Nothing confirms that his flagship telephone 3 has no flagship chipset – but I don’t think that matters.
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It is official: the Nothing telephone 3 Uses the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei unveiled the spec details in one interview uploaded to the company YouTube channel, confirming that nothing is the “first real flagship” telephone is “36% faster on CPU, 88% stronger on GPU and 60% stronger on the NPU” Nothing telephone 2.
Big numbers! Apart from the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen Gen 1-Uituste Nothing Phone 2 is almost two years old, and nothing is not a real flagship due to nothing, so you would expect the phone 3 to be a serious jump in the performance. The even larger elephant in the room is that there is nothing ‘first true flagship’ Fastest gun in the West. Is this a terrible revelation? I’m not sure.
Look, it’s true that much of the Best Android -Phones Use the latest top-end chipest from Qualcomm, and it is also true not With the help of the Snapdragon 8 -Elite, the Nothing Phone 3 will probably stay behind Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra And OnePlus 13 In benchmarktests and user cases with push-your telephone-to-de-Limits.
If you are someone who likes to maximize every institution Call of Duty: Mobile Or take in long videos 8kThe nothing telephone 3 is not for you. But nothing is not a brand for this kind of powerful users and never.
Carl Pei founded nothing in 2020 with a mission to ‘make Tech cool again’ and that Ethos has been clear in any telephone released to date (we have described the most recent effort of the company, the Nothing phone 3a proAs “the most interesting phone you can buy for less than $ 500 / £ 500 / au $ 850” in our review).
The next challenge of nothing is to create a “cool” phone that is not noticeably slower or bugger than the Best phones On the market. And every device that matches that assignment can, I think, be accurately described as “a real flagship”.
By using the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset, the Nothing Phone 3 will feel like a flagship compared to nothing -telephones of yesteryear, but I am sure it feels like a flagship in relation to the iPhones, Samsung Phones and pixel telephones of the world too.
As I wrote in one Set in the same way Last year: “In my opinion, we have reached a saturation point when it comes to the speed of flagship telephones. Not necessarily general mobile performance, mind, but the way these phones feeling If you wipe through. “
If the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset can provide a smooth experience while scrolling, streaming, vegging, gaming, taking photos or doing one of the other things that you do with their phone in 2025, I think it is a perfectly acceptable chipset choice for a flagship, unmetiged power.
Consider Google’s latest flagship telephone, the Pixel 9 Pro.
According to all accounts, the Tensor G4 chipset is weaker than the competition, but the Pixel 9 Pro is great if the ‘best Android’ option in our list of the Best phones and also scooped our Phone of the Year Award in 2024. Of course, those titles were granted subjectively, but nobody cut a eyelid when Google’s bona fide flagship ships without the latest and best in mobile silicon.
The price argument is a bit more difficult to coordinate. Rumors stated the Nothing the price tag of telephone 3 With around $ 799 / £ 799 / AU $ 1,300, which would in line with the Snapdragon 8 Elite-Uitueste Samsung Galaxy S25.
Of course, nothing upcoming handset cannot compete with the newest basic model from Samsung for RAW Power, but with Carl Pei that “premium materials and software objects”, I am convinced that the phone will fulfill 3 the “True Flagship” promise of the CEO.
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