{"id":19461,"date":"2025-07-16T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/nothing-phone-3-review-a-quirky-slick-android-alternative\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:37:38","slug":"nothing-phone-3-review-a-quirky-slick-android-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/nothing-phone-3-review-a-quirky-slick-android-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Phone 3 review: a quirky, slick Android alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novel design and cool software proves phones can still be fun, but this one struggles to beat flagship rivals<\/p>\n<p>The Phone 3 is London-based Nothing\u2019s latest attempt to get people to ditch Samsung or Apple phones for something a bit different, a little quirky and more fun.<\/p>\n<p>As the firm\u2019s first high-end Android in several years, it has most of what you\u2019d expect a flagship phone to have. But where it tries to set itself apart is with slick, dot-matrix-inspired software and a design on the back that includes a small, unique LED screen.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/16\/nothing-phone-3-review-a-quirky-slick-android-alternative\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/25e2054a66986cf4becb4fdf3e989b9d4fbd2fa5\/1994_1217_3064_2451\/master\/3064.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6bd2b79856cd9ed0bff8eac0012029b8\" title=\"Nothing Phone 3 review: a quirky, slick Android alternative\" \/>Novel design and cool software proves phones can still be fun, but this one struggles to beat flagship rivals<br \/>\nThe Phone 3 is London-based Nothing\u2019s latest attempt to get people to ditch Samsung or Apple phones for something a bit different, a little quirky and more fun.<br \/>\nAs the firm\u2019s first high-end Android in several years, it has most of what you\u2019d expect a flagship phone to have. But where it tries to set itself apart is with slick, dot-matrix-inspired software and a design on the back that includes a small, unique LED screen. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novel design and cool software proves phones can still be fun, but this one struggles to beat flagship rivals The Phone 3 is London-based Nothing\u2019s latest attempt to get people to ditch Samsung or Apple phones for something a bit different, a little quirky and more fun. As the firm\u2019s first high-end Android in several &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/nothing-phone-3-review-a-quirky-slick-android-alternative\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nothing Phone 3 review: a quirky, slick Android alternative<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}