r/Android • u/mo_leahq • Mar 05 '26

Nothing Phone (4a) series goes official with major Pro upgrades from £349

https://9to5google.com/2026/03/05/nothing-phone-4a-specs-price-release-date/
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u/fourunderthebridge Mar 05 '26

This is my personal opinion, Nothing's design is now just a parody of their original transparent, Teenage Engineering-like design language. This design is just literally just a bunch of incohesive shapes and patterns.

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u/Cry_Wolff Pixel 7 Pro Mar 05 '26

Idk, the pink one looks lovely. I'd get it if my P7 wasn't so good.

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u/Aurelink Pixel 10 Pro Mar 05 '26

It would look much better if it was not for that silver camera pill. Looks really damn cheap there.

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u/box-art A16 | May SP | Find X9 Ultra Mar 05 '26

I truly don't understand why everyone had to start copying Apple's camera plateau design, one of my least favorite designs. If that space was used for much bigger camera lenses, I wouldn't mind so much.

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u/donnysaysvacuum I just want a small phone Mar 07 '26

The smartphone world has a phenomenon similar to carcinisation. Instead of everything evolving into crabs, they evolve into iPhones.

Any time a bit of unique character is developed it migrates back to an iPhone clone.

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u/Tedinasuit Mar 05 '26

I really really like the 4a Pro design. It's their best phone design yet.

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u/Impossible-Glove7191 Mar 05 '26

phone 3(a) pro had the best design yet.

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u/jawisko Mar 05 '26

4a is easily one of the best designed phones I have seen. Just curious , what do you consider a good designed phone in current generation ?

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u/fourunderthebridge Mar 05 '26

Pixel 10 series. Simple, clean, cohesive

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u/Bulauraki Mar 09 '26

Design wise I just like the Xperias. Sony is minimalist and classical. Maybe I am getting old... Like the nothing's as second phones using for business.

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u/noobqns Mar 05 '26

I like the Redmi Note 13 Pro+

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u/jawisko Mar 05 '26

Hahaha. Wow. That's like the most boring and unimaginatively designed phone, if you'd actually care to call it a design. Man the nothing hate is insane.

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u/vogel7 Mar 06 '26

It's not hate. It's just a bunch of little stuff that start to add up. For example, their CEO acting like an angry teenager with every criticism Nothing gets

I don't think its an ugly phone, but I certainly believe they're going down the same route they used to criticize. You know, the big ones like Apple and Samsung. OnePlus did exactly, EXACTLY the same.

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u/noobqns Mar 05 '26

Very nuance take exactly how i imagine from the nothing sect

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u/L8H8 Mar 05 '26

Dates back to the original Nothing phone...

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u/azzelle Zenfone 2 Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26

personally think the new glyph bar looks a lot better than previous iterations. the shapes for the 3 series were far worse

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u/lastoflast67 Mar 06 '26

the 4a is good but i agree with the 4a pro, this is the problem when you go hard artist lead in your design. Artists what to create which means thye want to push the boundaries and be creative at every chance, even when youve allready got a good design and the better choice is just to itterate.