{"id":23121,"date":"2026-05-18T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/nothing-phone-4a-pro-review-premium-aluminium-meets-quirky-design\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:37:16","slug":"nothing-phone-4a-pro-review-premium-aluminium-meets-quirky-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/nothing-phone-4a-pro-review-premium-aluminium-meets-quirky-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Phone 4a Pro review: premium aluminium meets quirky design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-range Android stands out with huge screen, slick software and dot-matrix display, but falls just short of greatness<\/p>\n<p>Nothing\u2019s latest quirky smartphone is a huge aluminium Android with three cameras and a big LED matrix screen on the back that challenges the notion mid-range phones can\u2019t be just a bit more fun.<\/p>\n<p>The Phone 4a Pro is a bit of a departure from UK-based Nothing\u2019s previous glass-clad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/14\/nothing-phone-2-review-novel-mobile-is-more-than-just-flashing-lights\">transparent designs<\/a>. It still has a touch of those elements but only in the camera island at the top, with the rest of the body now solid aluminium \u2013 a rare sight in the world of Android phones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/18\/nothing-phone-4a-pro-review-premium-aluminium-quirky-design\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8c699a59359b3d0eec6ac7eb4ac89fca3cd3712e\/1819_873_3371_2697\/master\/3371.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=180da003a96ef1e3e36482270fb40e02\" title=\"Nothing Phone 4a Pro review: premium aluminium meets quirky design\" \/>Mid-range Android stands out with huge screen, slick software and dot-matrix display, but falls just short of greatness<br \/>\nNothing\u2019s latest quirky smartphone is a huge aluminium Android with three cameras and a big LED matrix screen on the back that challenges the notion mid-range phones can\u2019t be just a bit more fun.<br \/>\nThe Phone 4a Pro is a bit of a departure from UK-based Nothing\u2019s previous glass-clad transparent designs. It still has a touch of those elements but only in the camera island at the top, with the rest of the body now solid aluminium \u2013 a rare sight in the world of Android phones. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-range Android stands out with huge screen, slick software and dot-matrix display, but falls just short of greatness Nothing\u2019s latest quirky smartphone is a huge aluminium Android with three cameras and a big LED matrix screen on the back that challenges the notion mid-range phones can\u2019t be just a bit more fun. The Phone 4a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/nothing-phone-4a-pro-review-premium-aluminium-meets-quirky-design\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nothing Phone 4a Pro review: premium aluminium meets quirky design<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23122,"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\/23121"}],"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=23121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}