Nothing on Phone 3a Pro design: “Some people will hate it”

The Nothing Phone 3a Pro isn't a flagship device, but it'll have more cameras than the Nothing Phone 3a that will release at the same time. The new design video shows off the phone's three rear-facing sensors: a 50MP primary, an 8MP ultrawide, and a 50MP periscope telephoto (focal length unknown). The Nothing Phone 3a Pro has three of those glowing Glyphs on the back, framing the enormous camera module. The phone's PCB also needed some tweaks to make room for the folded periscope assembly, which is much thicker than the other sensors. Nothing explains why the Phone 3a looks like that. In the video, the designers talk about the tight timeline for finalizing industrial design, which was only about three months in the case of the Nothing Phone 3a Pro. They went through numerous design iterations in that time, exploring ways to adorn the camera module with lenses and lights. Some of the prototypes they show actually do a better job of minimizing the camera, but the disk-shape won out bec ... Read full article.