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Nothing says that the Phone 3 is its “first true flagship phone,” and it has put its money where its mouth is. The phone is getting a full US launch, and at $799, it costs exactly the same as a Pixel 9, Galaxy S25, or iPhone 16.
That makes reviewing the Phone 3 refreshingly simple, because there are only two real questions that matter: is this as good as those three? And will it be as good as what we’re expecting from the new Pixel and iPhone models that are right around the corner?
The answer is going to come down to how much you like its unique look. The bad news for Nothing is that the Phone 3’s design is more divisive than any out there, even among Nothing’s biggest fans.
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No more Glyph lights
The Phone 3 is the first Nothing phone to ditch the Glyph interface, an abstract pattern of LED dots and strips that became Nothing’s design trademark when the Phone 1 launched in 2022. In its place is something smaller and subtler: a circular dot matrix display dubbed the Glyph Matrix.
The Glyph Matrix plays spin the bottle, but don’t you dare call it a gimmick.
Nothing says the Glyph Toy range will expand with new community-developed apps.
Nothing includes some notification icons of its own design, like this one I used for WhatsApp.
The Glyph Matrix can display pictures and icons, so instead of trying to remember which light show you programmed for phone calls from your mom, you can set an emoji to represent her (you could even use a photo, but these are just as illegible as the old lights when rendered on the dot matrix). You can use Nothing’s preselected designs or generate your own from an image, but if you want to use a specific emoji or app icon, then you’ll need to get a hold of the image file yourself to convert it. This all needs to be enabled manually, contact by contact, app by app, so it’s a fair bit of work to set up.
The Glyph Matrix can also do sensible things like display the time or remaining battery, stranger things like run a solar clock or frame a selfie using the rear camera, and downright weird stuff like play rock, paper, scissors or spin the bottle. Practical or not, these are collectively dubbed Glyph Toys, and you can cycle through them using a hidden haptic button on the phone’s rear. You can set the clocks or battery indicator to run perpetually as a form of always-on display, too, which is a boring use case but the best part of it for me.
The end result is a system that’s a little more practical than it used to be — though it doesn’t do a whole lot to dispel accusations that it’s a gimmick — but feels less unique, following in the wake of several years of Asus ROG phones that have similar second screens.
It also leaves the rest of the phone’s rear oddly bare. Lots has been written already about the phone’s asymmetric camera placement, but it’s the barren white space that bothers me more. Nothing’s design language is all about details and doohickeys that draw the eye and hint at the hardware underneath. But here, there’s a cramped cluster of cameras and other details at the phone’s top, and at the bottom there’s a whole lot of, well, nothing. I love the look of the company’s other hardware, but the Phone 3 is its first design dud — too busy at the top and too empty everywhere else.
Nothing OS is great, but gray, which can make it hard to use.
This is a beta “smart” layout of the app drawer, with automated categories.
You can use Essential Space to take screenshots of event invites…
…which are summarized and can be synced with Google Calendar.
Nothing’s distinct design language runs through the software. Nothing OS 3.5, based on Android 15, is minimalist and monochrome, with plenty of customizability — right down to details like the layout of the quick settings menu. The grayscale looks great, though it’s a little unhelpful when you’re trying to find an app icon in a rush, but you can always switch to Android’s standard colorful icons if you prefer. A new AI-powered global search bar helps, too, pulling up apps, contacts, settings, and more.
The other big AI features are found in the returning Essential Space, triggered by a dedicated hardware key to save screenshots and voice notes, which the AI will analyze to give you reminders about events or tasks, with a new option to add events to Google Calendar. It can also summarize audio recordings, though you’re limited to 300 minutes a month, with no option to buy more, and you only get a summary, not a full transcript.
The lower half of the Phone 3 is bare compared to the top.
But there’s more to being a flagship than just looking the part. Nothing angered some fans by boasting about the Phone 3’s “flagship” Snapdragon 8S Gen 4 chipset, which is also found in the $399 Poco F7. And sure, this is a chip for the lower end of the flagship space, less powerful than the Snapdragon 8 Elite you’ll find in the Galaxy S25. But Google’s Pixel line has delivered less pure power ever since the company switched to in-house Tensor chips, and the 8S Gen 4 is competitive with that. It hasn’t lagged or stuttered over my couple weeks with the phone, photo processing is fast enough, and it handles gaming comfortably.
Some specs are strong: 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage are great for the base model, delivering double the space of rivals. The 5,150mAh battery is larger than the alternatives and lasts the day comfortably, while 65W wired charging is the fastest of the lot. The bright 120Hz OLED display doesn’t stand apart from the competition outside of being bigger at 6.67 inches.
Nothing’s earlier cameras were competent, but that doesn’t cut it for a flagship. Nothing upgraded the Phone 3’s hardware with a triple rear camera that uses 50-megapixel sensors across the board — including the selfie camera — outpacing all its rivals on resolution. It says it’s made software tweaks, too, prioritizing richer shadows and natural highlights.
1/19The Phone 3’s main camera produces attractive results in good lighting.
The main camera works well in good light through dusk. Some shots have the flat sheen of excessive HDR effects, removing the contrast and detail, though Nothing’s post-processing is more restrained than some. Results drop off once it gets dark, though, and the camera overexposes highlights and crushes blacks in the process.
The telephoto is the best feature this camera has going for it, partly because the iPhone 16 and Pixel 9 don’t have one. The color tuning differs from the main lens, being flatter and colder, but it takes photos with an attractive, natural bokeh effect, especially in macro mode.
Overall, the cameras lag a little behind the competition, but this telephoto might be a tempting reason to consider it — though with the Pixel 10 rumored to jump to three cameras, that advantage might disappear.
Love it or hate it, no other phone looks like this.
Back to the big question: should you buy this over other flagships? The Phone 3 comes with more storage, a bigger battery, and faster charging. It’s likely to beat the upcoming Pixel and iPhone models on those fronts. But neither the chipset nor the cameras keep up, and there’s a risk that those gaps grow over the next few months.
Still, none of those other flagships look like this. Depending on your taste, that may be a point in their favor. I don’t love the Phone 3’s design. But it’s distinctive, and the Glyph Matrix could be powerful if you take the time to customize it. If that appeals, then the Nothing Phone 3 is a unique flagship. Just make sure you’re happy with putting form over function.
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — The question Scottie Scheffler was asking of himself at the start of the week could very well be posed to those chasing him in the British Open.
Scheffler delivered another example Saturday at Royal Portrush of why he has dominated golf the last three years. He was the only player in the last eight groups not to make a bogey on his way to a 4-under 67 that allowed him to open a four-shot lead as he goes for the third leg of the career Grand Slam.
Scheffler has won the last 10 times he has led after 54 holes. It’s never easy, no matter how he makes it look. But on this gorgeous day he was in full command of his game, and he now is in prime position to get his second major win of the year.
He was helped by a 6-iron to 10 feet for eagle on the par-5 seventh, and saved by three big par saves, two on the back nine, to keep everyone at a distance.
“Talking of execution, he’s probably the best in the business right now,” Rory McIlroy said after a 5-under 66 that brought him to only within six shots of Scheffler.
Scheffler had the golf world buzzing earlier this week when he said celebrations don’t last but a few minutes. He loves the competition. He loves the work. But in terms of fulfillment, he often questions why he wants to win so badly when the thrill of winning is fleeting.
Ahead of him is competition, and still plenty of work.
He was at 14-under 199, four shots ahead of Haotong Li of China, who delivered his own mystery by saying he had no idea how he recovered from the full swing yips a few years ago to be in the final group of a major for the first time.
Another shot back was Matt Fitzpatrick, who was tied with Scheffler through six holes but couldn’t stay with him when the No. 1 player began to pull away. Fitzpatrick missed a pair of short par putts and had to settle for a par 71.
The biggest roars belonged to McIlroy, so much that it felt as though all of Northern Ireland was behind him. He opened with three birdies in four holes. The roar that shook Royal Portrush came on the par-5 12th when McIlroy holed a 55-foot eagle putt that gave him a spark and the gallery hope — even though he still was six behind.
He produced only one more birdie the rest of the way and still faced a big climb.
“I played well enough today to at least feel like I have a chance tomorrow,” McIlroy said. “Yeah, it’s going to be tough to catch him tomorrow if he keeps playing the way he does. But if I can get out tomorrow and get off to a similar start to what I did today, get the crowd going … you never know. But I just need to go out and play another really good round of golf tomorrow and see what happens.”
But this championship is now in the hands of Scheffler, who has been No. 1 in the world longer than anyone since Tiger Woods. And there was nothing Saturday to indicate he was going to make it easy on anyone chasing him.
“I’m just trying to execute, not overthinking things,” Scheffler said. “I feel like I’ve been doing the right thing so far, and I’m looking forward to the challenge of tomorrow.”
After his first three-putt of the tournament — making par after reaching the par-5 second hole in two shots — Scheffler made a 10-foot par putt that was as big as any. In deep trouble behind the 11th green, he hacked out to 10 feet to save par, then saved another par from the deep grass left of the 14th fairway.
Royal Portrush has a nasty par-3 at No. 16 known as “Calamity Corner.” Scheffler made birdie there for the third straight day, this time a 3-iron that settled 15 feet below the cup.
Each shot helped him pull away from the field. Each shot moved him closer to the Claret Jug, to go along with the PGA Championship he won by 5 shots in May and the two Masters green jackets he has won in the last four years.
In fact, if Scheffler maintains his advantage Sunday, he’d join Ben Hogan in 1953 and Woods in 2000 as the only golfers to win multiple majors by four or more strokes in the same year.
“Scottie is … it’s inevitable,” McIlroy said. “Even when he doesn’t have his best stuff, he’s become a complete player.”
This is what McIlroy noticed last year, when Scheffler won nine times around the world. What impressed him was that Scheffler played so many bogey-free rounds.
Scheffler picked a great time for another one.
“I think the card could look stress-free, but I had two really nice par saves on the back nine that were key … two really important putts,” he said. “I think any time you can keep a clean card around a major championship, you’re going to be having a pretty good day.”
Fitzpatrick did his best to keep pace, but he missed a 4-foot par putt on the 13th, got a bad bounce on the 17th that led to another bogey and wound up five shots behind.
“Just didn’t make any putts. I didn’t hit it close enough,” Fitzpatrick said. “Drove it well enough, didn’t hit it close enough. Just made way less putts than Scottie.”
Scheffler will be paired in the last group with Li, who made history in 2020 at the PGA Championship when he held the 36-hole lead, becoming the first player from China to lead in a major. Li didn’t make his first bogey until the 13th hole, and he dropped another shot on the 18th by driving into a pot bunker.
Scottish Open champion Chris Gotterup, in his first appearance in the British Open, had a 68 and joined the group at 8-under 205 that included McIlroy, Harris English (68) and Tyrrell Hatton (68).
This is Scheffler’s largest 54-hole lead in a major — he was up by three shots at the PGA Championship and in the 2022 Masters.
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As someone who’s 5’1” on a good day, dress shopping can feel like a cruel joke. Especially when everything cute pools at my ankles. And look, I love a fashion fix as much as anyone, but dragging dresses to the tailor? Not happening. So I took matters into my own (short) hands and hunted down summer dresses that actually work for petite frames—no hemming required.
I found seven petite-friendly picks that look so good on shorter gals. Think: easy midis, breezy maxis, and lightweight fabrics that won’t swallow you whole. Most are from Amazon (hello, fast shipping), plus one cute Madewell find that deserves a shoutout. Even better? Several are on sale, with prices starting at just $32. Whether you’re 5’1” like me or even shorter, these dresses are proof that being petite doesn’t mean sacrificing fit or style.
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Finn picks up a small, white, teabag-like pouch from a round, brightly coloured tin and places it between his upper lip and gum.
He and his mates use nicotine pouches until they vomit, he tells me.
The strength of the nicotine – at 150mg a pouch – is enough, he says, to “immobilise” them – especially when they use two or three in one go.
“It’s the burn at first,” the 17-year-old explains. “You feel this burning sensation against your gums, and then you get the hit.”
The hit, he says, is far stronger than any cigarette, and often he and his friends will lie down before they put the pouch in place, hidden under their lips.
Finn tells me how easy they are to use; they are so inconspicuous he even uses them at school.
“I’ve sat in class before and had one in my mouth that was so strong I was all over the place,” he says. “I was sweating, salivating and struggling to concentrate.”
In the end, he says, his teacher noticed he looked “bright green” and he made his excuses and bolted out of his maths lesson.
Finn, who only wants us to use his first name, is not boasting. In fact, he says, he regrets ever having started using pouches. He now sees himself as an addict and wants to warn others.
“I just got bored of vaping, and now I’m stuck on these.”
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A growing number of young people are using nicotine pouches – some swapping from vaping or smoking, others trying nicotine for the first time.
Figures seen by BBC News suggest there has been nearly a four-fold rise in use by 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK – from less than than 1% in 2022, to 3.6% in 2024.
The pouches are widely sold online, in supermarkets and in corner shops. Priced at around £5 for a pack of 20, they come in exotic flavours with varying nicotine strengths – from 1.5mg to claims of 150mg for a more “extreme” experience.
Anyone can buy them. There is no minimum age as with cigarettes, vapes and alcohol. Nor is there any restriction on the strength of the nicotine in the pouches.
“I’ve heard of children as young as 11 or 12 nipping to shops and buying them,” warns Kate Pike, Trading Standards’ lead officer for tobacco and vaping.
She says her organisation is receiving an increasing number of reports from parents and teachers that nicotine pouches are being sold to children.
“It is incredibly frustrating that there is nothing we can currently do to prevent them.”
What are nicotine pouches?
Also known as white snus, they contain nicotine extracted from tobacco leaves, sodium carbonate, flavourings, and sweeteners
They often have a high pH value, an effect of the ingredient sodium carbonate, which allows the nicotine inside the pouch to penetrate the soft lining on the gum more quickly and enter the bloodstream, resulting in stronger nicotine kicks
Source: Institute of Odontology, University of Gothenburg
Ms Pike is urging the government to prioritise the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which, if passed, will make it illegal to sell these pouches to under 18s.
“We need to take action against those who either deliberately or uncaringly risk children getting hooked on a highly addictive product,” she says.
Despite containing large amounts of the drug, nicotine pouches do not need to display the warning, “This product contains nicotine which is a highly addictive substance” on their packaging.
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Kent Trading Standards’ ports team seized a vanload of 66,000 tubs of nicotine pouches destined for the UK in February 2025
If the pouches have more than 16.7mg of nicotine, then under general product safety regulation, there should be a skull and cross bones symbol on the packaging and a list of the chemical components written in English.
This regulation, Ms Pike says, is increasingly being flouted, with Trading Standards officers seizing thousands of illegal products across the UK.
The pouches are significantly less harmful than cigarettes, and because chemicals do not enter the lungs, they may carry fewer risks than vapes.
Harry Tattan-Birch, a senior researcher from University College London, says pouches are the “least harmful way” to ingest nicotine.
“If they were used to stop people smoking or vaping, they could have a positive public health effect – but it would only be positive if they were used by those wanting to quit, not those who are trying nicotine for the first time.”
While they may carry fewer health risks than cigarettes and vapes, there are cardiovascular risks for people using pouches with high quantities of nicotine – and there is growing concern over the damage nicotine pouches do to gums.
Finn has been using pouches for more than a year and says he reached a point where his “mouth was shredded to bits” and, on one occasion, he “peeled half [his] gum off”.
Dr Patric Saraby, a Swedish dentist based in Bournemouth, has treated patients who are nicotine pouch users with gum lesions so deep it’s possible to see the root of the tooth.
“The long-term damage of these products is extremely worrying,” he says.
One of his patients, a 23-year-old student, started to develop lesions in his gums while studying for his exams. He was using five pouches a day to help him quit vaping and, he says, to help him focus on his studies.
“It started as a recreational thing, but it quickly took hold,” the student says. “I became worried when a bit of my gum – where I had been placing the pouch – came off.”
He’s now nicotine-free and his gums are starting to heal after quitting vaping and pouches eight months ago.
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White lesions caused by repeated nicotine pouches
Dr Saraby, who has carried out two years of research into nicotine pouches, says there is an increased risk of localised gum disease and localised bone loss.
He is worried that the “tidal wave of nicotine pouch use” that has hit Sweden – the home of the original, tobacco-based snus – will soon hit the UK. There, 25% of 16 to 29-year-olds are users and dentists are seeing increasing numbers of patients with painful inflammation that is taking months, sometimes years, to heal.
A five-year study has just started at the University of Gothenburg into why white snus is leaving such damage compared to the tobacco-based products.
Dr Gita Gale, a specialist in oral medicine who is leading the study, says it’s “alarming” how many people are using this product given how little is known about the long-term consequences of its use.
The government says its “landmark” Tobacco and Vapes bill, which is currently making its way through the House of Lords, will ban the sale of nicotine pouches to under 18s and prevent vapes and nicotine products from being deliberately promoted and advertised to children.
“It will stop the next generation from getting hooked on nicotine and put an end to the cycle of addiction and disadvantage,” a government spokesperson added.
Finn says many of his school friends have moved from vaping to nicotine pouches. He did the same but feels he has had enough, and is trying to cut back.
“All I could think about was how much I needed it – it got too much,” Finn says. “Snus is so much harder to kick than vaping.
“My advice? Don’t bother with any of it in the first place. Nicotine traps you.”
Justin Fulcher, a senior staffer at the Pentagon and advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has left the Defense Department (DOD), an agency spokesperson confirmed to NewsNation.
Fulcher’s departure is the latest shakeup in recent months in the top ranks of the DOD, which saw three top officials ousted in April. Fulcher was elevated to the Pentagon after previously working for the Department of Government Efficiency.
“The Department of Defense is grateful to Justin Fulcher for his work on behalf of President Trump and Secretary Hegseth. We wish him well in his future endeavors,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell told NewsNation.
In a statement released by the DOD, Fulcher said he had completed six months of government work “as planned.”
“None of this could have happened without Secretary Hegseth’s decisive leadership or President Trump’s continued confidence in our team,” he said. “Revitalizing the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military, and reestablishing deterrence are just some of the historic accomplishments I’m proud to have witnessed.”
Fulcher’s desk was recently relocated from outside Hegseth’s office to down the hall, The Washington Post reported Saturday. He told the paper that the move was temporary and due to maintenance work.
Cardone’s latest investment move is a $230 million bid for a Boca Raton apartment complex, part of a bankruptcy auction. That’s pretty standard for him. But this time, he’s folding $100 million worth of bitcoin into the deal, and might even take the whole hybrid venture public.
And he’s already done something like it four times.
In one recent example, Cardone picked up an $88 million property for $72 million, taking advantage of softening prices in a tight credit market. Then, he dropped $15 million worth of bitcoin into the fund alongside the real estate asset. That fund has no debt, which is unusual, and the property generates about $350,000 in monthly cash flow.
Interestingly, Cardone’s not just pocketing that income or selling off apartments to go all-in on crypto, but rather using real estate’s reliable income to acquire bitcoin over time.
In his words, “What if the real estate bought my bitcoin, and then I could actually take the whole thing public?”
That’s the play. Real estate gives him a stable yield. Bitcoin, he believes, offers asymmetric upside. If all goes according to plan, Cardone plans to roll this combination of hard assets and crypto appreciation into a public offering, possibly at the end of this year. Maybe early next. Ring the bell. Turn the hybrid fund into stock. Exit, stage left. And then do it again.
So he’s stacking real estate income into crypto, letting them rise together and eyeing a big public exit at the end.
Depends on who you ask.
Some experts see merit in Cardone’s logic. Ian Kane, founder of Firepan, suggests that long-term bitcoin holders may benefit from converting their gains into an investment that generates passive income. “They get peace of mind,” he said. “Real estate can be a hedge against crypto’s volatility.”
There’s also the option of bitcoin-backed mortgages, which combine the two worlds without selling off either side.
Still, there are caveats. Louis Adler from REAL New York calls Bitcoin a practical mismatch for real estate. “It’s a fundamentally traditional asset class,” he said, “and the volatility of crypto creates too many unknowns.”
That’s fair. Most people aren’t positioned like Cardone, who already has thousands of units and a machine for raising capital. He’s not liquidating his savings to buy condos with a Ledger wallet; he’s compounding income into high-risk assets and blending it with equity plays that already exist. He’s using scale, leverage and a big public profile to build something he can potentially list and sell again later.
So no, this is most certainly not a beginner’s blueprint. However, it is a glimpse of what happens when someone with substantial capital decides to test the boundaries of two asset classes simultaneously.
And if nothing else, it’s a wild ride worth watching.
Nothing says that the Phone 3 is its “first true flagship phone,” and it has put its money where its mouth is. The phone is getting a full US launch, and at $799, it costs exactly the same as a Pixel 9, Galaxy S25, or iPhone 16.
That makes reviewing the Phone 3 refreshingly simple, because there are only two real questions that matter: is this as good as those three? And will it be as good as what we’re expecting from the new Pixel and iPhone models that are right around the corner?
The answer is going to come down to how much you like its unique look. The bad news for Nothing is that the Phone 3’s design is more divisive than any out there, even among Nothing’s biggest fans.
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The Good
Unique design
Big battery and fast charging
Plenty of storage
The Bad
Weak chipset for the price
Flagship rivals have better cameras
No more Glyph lights
The Phone 3 is the first Nothing phone to ditch the Glyph interface, an abstract pattern of LED dots and strips that became Nothing’s design trademark when the Phone 1 launched in 2022. In its place is something smaller and subtler: a circular dot matrix display dubbed the Glyph Matrix.
The Glyph Matrix plays spin the bottle, but don’t you dare call it a gimmick.
Nothing says the Glyph Toy range will expand with new community-developed apps.
Nothing includes some notification icons of its own design, like this one I used for WhatsApp.
The Glyph Matrix can display pictures and icons, so instead of trying to remember which light show you programmed for phone calls from your mom, you can set an emoji to represent her (you could even use a photo, but these are just as illegible as the old lights when rendered on the dot matrix). You can use Nothing’s preselected designs or generate your own from an image, but if you want to use a specific emoji or app icon, then you’ll need to get a hold of the image file yourself to convert it. This all needs to be enabled manually, contact by contact, app by app, so it’s a fair bit of work to set up.
The Glyph Matrix can also do sensible things like display the time or remaining battery, stranger things like run a solar clock or frame a selfie using the rear camera, and downright weird stuff like play rock, paper, scissors or spin the bottle. Practical or not, these are collectively dubbed Glyph Toys, and you can cycle through them using a hidden haptic button on the phone’s rear. You can set the clocks or battery indicator to run perpetually as a form of always-on display, too, which is a boring use case but the best part of it for me.
The end result is a system that’s a little more practical than it used to be — though it doesn’t do a whole lot to dispel accusations that it’s a gimmick — but feels less unique, following in the wake of several years of Asus ROG phones that have similar second screens.
It also leaves the rest of the phone’s rear oddly bare. Lots has been written already about the phone’s asymmetric camera placement, but it’s the barren white space that bothers me more. Nothing’s design language is all about details and doohickeys that draw the eye and hint at the hardware underneath. But here, there’s a cramped cluster of cameras and other details at the phone’s top, and at the bottom there’s a whole lot of, well, nothing. I love the look of the company’s other hardware, but the Phone 3 is its first design dud — too busy at the top and too empty everywhere else.
Nothing OS is great, but gray, which can make it hard to use.
This is a beta “smart” layout of the app drawer, with automated categories.
You can use Essential Space to take screenshots of event invites…
…which are summarized and can be synced with Google Calendar.
Nothing’s distinct design language runs through the software. Nothing OS 3.5, based on Android 15, is minimalist and monochrome, with plenty of customizability — right down to details like the layout of the quick settings menu. The grayscale looks great, though it’s a little unhelpful when you’re trying to find an app icon in a rush, but you can always switch to Android’s standard colorful icons if you prefer. A new AI-powered global search bar helps, too, pulling up apps, contacts, settings, and more.
The other big AI features are found in the returning Essential Space, triggered by a dedicated hardware key to save screenshots and voice notes, which the AI will analyze to give you reminders about events or tasks, with a new option to add events to Google Calendar. It can also summarize audio recordings, though you’re limited to 300 minutes a month, with no option to buy more, and you only get a summary, not a full transcript.
The lower half of the Phone 3 is bare compared to the top.
But there’s more to being a flagship than just looking the part. Nothing angered some fans by boasting about the Phone 3’s “flagship” Snapdragon 8S Gen 4 chipset, which is also found in the $399 Poco F7. And sure, this is a chip for the lower end of the flagship space, less powerful than the Snapdragon 8 Elite you’ll find in the Galaxy S25. But Google’s Pixel line has delivered less pure power ever since the company switched to in-house Tensor chips, and the 8S Gen 4 is competitive with that. It hasn’t lagged or stuttered over my couple weeks with the phone, photo processing is fast enough, and it handles gaming comfortably.
Some specs are strong: 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage are great for the base model, delivering double the space of rivals. The 5,150mAh battery is larger than the alternatives and lasts the day comfortably, while 65W wired charging is the fastest of the lot. The bright 120Hz OLED display doesn’t stand apart from the competition outside of being bigger at 6.67 inches.
Nothing’s earlier cameras were competent, but that doesn’t cut it for a flagship. Nothing upgraded the Phone 3’s hardware with a triple rear camera that uses 50-megapixel sensors across the board — including the selfie camera — outpacing all its rivals on resolution. It says it’s made software tweaks, too, prioritizing richer shadows and natural highlights.
1/19The Phone 3’s main camera produces attractive results in good lighting.
The main camera works well in good light through dusk. Some shots have the flat sheen of excessive HDR effects, removing the contrast and detail, though Nothing’s post-processing is more restrained than some. Results drop off once it gets dark, though, and the camera overexposes highlights and crushes blacks in the process.
The telephoto is the best feature this camera has going for it, partly because the iPhone 16 and Pixel 9 don’t have one. The color tuning differs from the main lens, being flatter and colder, but it takes photos with an attractive, natural bokeh effect, especially in macro mode.
Overall, the cameras lag a little behind the competition, but this telephoto might be a tempting reason to consider it — though with the Pixel 10 rumored to jump to three cameras, that advantage might disappear.
Love it or hate it, no other phone looks like this.
Back to the big question: should you buy this over other flagships? The Phone 3 comes with more storage, a bigger battery, and faster charging. It’s likely to beat the upcoming Pixel and iPhone models on those fronts. But neither the chipset nor the cameras keep up, and there’s a risk that those gaps grow over the next few months.
Still, none of those other flagships look like this. Depending on your taste, that may be a point in their favor. I don’t love the Phone 3’s design. But it’s distinctive, and the Glyph Matrix could be powerful if you take the time to customize it. If that appeals, then the Nothing Phone 3 is a unique flagship. Just make sure you’re happy with putting form over function.
Based in London, Emily Keogh is ESPN’s women’s soccer correspondent, specializing in the WSL and UWCL
BASEL, Switzerland — As Germany‘s goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger dropped to her knees, arms stretched out to welcome the embrace of her 22 teammates and coaching staff, the reality dawned: Germany had done the unthinkable.
In the history of the Women’s Euros, no team has ever come back after being down a player — until now. Germany beat France in the quarterfinals after a seven-round penalty shootout on Saturday, despite being down a player for around two hours of gametime.
Veteran German defender Kathrin Hendrich — a player with over 80 caps and at her fifth major international tournament — was shown a straight red in the 12th minute for the petulant hair-pulling of France’s captain Griedge Mbock Bathy. It was a dreadful lapse in judgement, becoming the quickest red card in Women’s Euros history, too, and it set the Germans up for the biggest fight of their lives.
And fight they did. Germany grappled for 120 minutes, with Berger at the heart of the fight back, making nine saves. One of those was an impeccable diving save to her right, arm stretched behind her to prevent an own goal as Janina Minge‘s clearance almost ended up in her own net. Since 2013, only Netherlands goalkeeper Daphne van Domselaar has had more saves in a Women’s Euros knockout match in 2011.
Germany were not making things easy for themselves. Sjoeke Nüsken had a penalty saved in the 68th minute, and the former champions were struggling in attack with only seven shots, compared to 18 from their opponents.
The majority of referee Tess Olofsson’s calls also went against Germany, with only a few being correct. She called 50 fouls across 120 minutes — but only showed five yellows — making the game too stop and start for either team to really get going.
St Jakob Park had been electric all evening, but the stadium erupted when Germany’s momentum finally gathered in extra time. Despite being faced with a barrage of pacey French attacks, Germany had some of the best opportunities of the evening, and the fans were behind them all the way.
Whistles, shouts and chants flooded the stadium to the point that any French support was being drowned out by echoes of boos and jibes inundating the ground.
Both teams showed impressive travelling support with 34,128 fans in house. They were divided in who they wanted to win, but they were aligned on one thing: the refereeing was inconsistent and shoddy and the vocal supporters made their feelings heard.
Despite this, there was always a glimmer of hope, for Germany against France, with the top European side having a dismal track record in major tournaments.
France have never beaten Germany in a major women’s tournament before, now stretching to 12 losses in 12 games. They did defeat Germany in the Nations League finals, though it was a short-lived victory.
This is the third time France have been eliminated from the Euros in a penalty shootout, too, a thought that likely would have been on their minds as they entered the final stage of the game.
There was a start contrast in the body language between the German and French players as the shootout began. The Germans were confident while the French were nervous, some not looking in the right direction and were visibly shaken as Berger made perfect saves.
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Julien Laurens reacts to France’s penalty shootout defeat to Germany to miss out on a semifinal spot at Euro 2025.
France’s struggles go beyond penalty kicks though. This is the fourth Euros quarterfinal they’ve lost. In nine major tournament quarterfinals, they’ve only surpassed this stage once — during 2022 Euros, when they then lost to Germany in the semifinals.
The French team has, in seven Euros, five World Cups and three Olympics, never made a tournament final. For all of their experience and ability, France have fallen short desperately and unforgivably short in major tournaments. Their form outside of Euros and World Cups poses a stark difference to their lacklustre form when in a competition.
Simply put, it was the quintessential France performance at a major tournament. They had a perfect opportunity served on a platter to take advantage of the eight-time winners with only ten players on the pitch. After facing a red card in the final group stage game to get here, Germany then lost 4-1 to Sweden, proving their weaknesses.
France should have learned from that group stage game, especially, after saving the penalty which would have surely sealed their fate. The opportunity was there to rattle the former champions, but France were unable to take it.
They could not conjure an attack worthy of stealing back a lead. They were consistently profligate, with two goals were disallowed due to offside and only half of their 18 shots were on target. That being said, Germany’s defence was stalwart, organised and they frustrated France, forcing them into poor decision making and applying pressure to make the final touch ineffective.
They will be celebrating long into the night but face a long recovery ahead of them before facing Spain in the semifinal on Wednesday. They will need to figure a plan out quickly, especially as they’ll be without Nusken (yellow car accumulation) and Hendrich (red card) along with Guilia Gwinn’s extended absence (knee injury), as their profligacy in front of goal will not suffice against the World Champions.
France are now back to the drawing board. With their tournament record continuing to get worse, despite significant changes under new manager Laurent Bonadei and a fresh-faced squad, the curse has continued. Perhaps the shock omission of Wendie Renard, Eugénie Le Sommer and Kenza Dali has hurt their campaign more than first realised.
The inquest is unlikely to be pretty, but with a World Cup in two years, France have time to hopefully conjure some answers. Germany, meanwhile, are one step closer to reaching a second-straight Euros final.
