It is official: Nothing 3 phone will use the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset.
Nothing from CEO Carl Pei revealed the detail of specifications in an interview loaded on the company’s YouTube channel, confirming that nothing of “First True Flagship” Telephone will be “36% faster on CPU, 88% stronger in GPU and 60% stronger in the NPU” than the Telephone Nothing 2.
Large numbers! Except that Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 telephone number 1 equipped with almost two years is almost two years old, and by the admission itself, it is not a real flagship, so it would expect the phone 3 to deliver a serious leap into performance. The even bigger elephant in the room is that nothing is the “first true flagship” will not use the elite chipset of Snapdragon 8, which, according to all accounts, is currently the Fastest weapon in the west. Is this a terrible revelation? I’m not so sure.
Look, it is true that many of the best Android phones use the last chipest of high range of Qualcomm, and it is also true that, in No Using the Snapdragon 8 Elite, Nothing 3 phone will probably be delayed behind the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and OnePlus 13 in the reference tests and the cases of use of your phone to the limits.
If you are someone who likes to maximize each scenario in Call of Duty: Mobile Or record long videos in 8K, the Tehón 3 phone will not be for you. But nothing is not, and it will never be, a brand for this type of advanced users.
Carl Pei did not found anything in 2020 with the mission of “making technology great again”, and that ethos has been evident on each phone nothing launched (we describe the most recent effort of the company, the nothón 3a Pro, as “the most interesting phone you can buy for less than $ 500 / £ 500 / au $ 850” in our review).
Nothing is the next challenge is to make a “great” phone that is not remarkably slower or more buggom plus buggom than the best telephone numbers in the market. And I think that any device that suits that they are referred can be described precisely as “a true flagship.”
When using the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset, the Nothón 3 phone will feel like a flagship compared to nothing old phones, but I am 99% sure that it will also feel like an flagship ship in relation to iPhones, Samsung phones and the world’s pixel phones.
As I wrote in a similar mentality piece last year: “In my opinion, we have reached a saturation point when it comes to the speed of flagship phones. Not necessarily the mobile performance in general, the mind, but the way in which these phones feel When you go through them. “
If the Snapdragon 8S Gen 4 chipset can offer an experience without problems while moving, transmits, slides, games, taking photos or doing any of the other things that one does with your phone in 2025, I think it is a perfectly acceptable chipset option for a flagship phone aimed at those who value aesthetics about the raw, nomited power.
Consider Google’s last flagship phone, Pixel 9 Pro.
According to all the accounts, its G4 Tensioner Chips set is weaker than the competition, however, Pixel 9 Pro feels quite a lot like the ‘Best Android’ option on our list of the best phones and also won our telephone award of the year in 2024. Surely those titles were granted subjectively, but no one stir an eyeelid when Google’s Bona Fide Fide Fide Fide Greatest in Silicon.
The price argument is a bit more difficult to reject. The rumors placed the price of Nothing Phone 3 in around $ 799 / £ 799 / AU $ 1,300, which would put the phone in line with the Samsung Galaxy S25 equipped with Snapdragon 8.
Naturally, the next phone that nothing can compete with the latest Samsung base model for raw energy, but with Carl Pei promising “materials and premium software that really level things”, I am sure that phone 3 will deliver the promise of “true badge” of the CEO.
