- Nothing releases its latest affordable Android phones
- The phone (4a) and (4a) Pro bring upgrades across the board…
- … and there are some fun colors to see
The day after the colorful MacBook Neo turned heads with some novelty shades, the vibrant tech party continues thanks to the Nothing Phone (4a) and Phone (4a) Pro, which have just been unveiled alongside the affordable Nothing Headphone (a). Well, as revealed when the brand teased them for ages beforehand.
These two new shoo-ins to our best Android phones list bring upgrades from the Nothing Phone (3a) Pro and family, and represent a phone (4) that the company has no plans to release this year. They use new materials to be tougher, have updated software and redesign the brand’s colorful luminous Glyph Bar with a new shooting light. You can read our full thoughts in our Nothing Phone (4a) review.
The standard model has a new periscope zoom camera that reaches 3.5x, more than 2x of the (3a), and more pixels on the screen to bring the resolution to 1.5K. The pixel-per-inch count of 440 is higher than any phone I can think of recently, and the brightness is also up to a dazzling maximum of 4,500 nits.
Other highlights are the newer Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chipset powering the device, a larger 5,080mAh battery and a wider range of recycled materials used to build the phone.
Not everything is an upgrade though, with the same 50W charging, unchanged camera resolutions (50MP on the main and zoom, 8MP on the ultrawide and 32MP on the front), and a screen that’s only 0.01 inches larger at 6.78 inches diagonally.
For me, the best part of the phone though is how it looks…
A colorful phone, but perhaps difficult to buy
I got to see the Nothing Phone (4a) briefly before its release at MWC 2026, and I couldn’t help but feel that the two models shown above were the most eye-catching tech of the week (no offense, Apple, but if you’re going to do color, don’t make it pale and washed out!). I didn’t get to test the devices, so wait for our full test coverage later, but I got to see all four models under glass cases.
The black and white models looked like standard Nothing releases, if the company’s phones can look “standard”: they’re blocky robot-like devices with some transparent elements.
What really caught my eye were the two colorful models, as there will also be a light blue and a pink device. These look a lot more fun than your basic smartphone, and at MWC it was clear that these were the versions that everyone couldn’t take their eyes off of.
Unfortunately, not everyone can purchase these colorful options because the phones have varying availability. Both the Phone (4a) and Pro will go on sale in the UK, but in the US the standard model won’t be on sale, while in Australia there’s no Pro. The Pro has the same white, black and pink, but no blue.
The Nothing Phone (4a) starts at £349 / AU$649 (about $400), while the Phone (4a) Pro starts at $499 / £499 (about AU$900), with prices increasing for extra storage and RAM.
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