- Nothing releases its newest 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 hues, the vibrant tech party has continued thanks to the Nothing Phone (4a) and Phone (4a) Pro, which have just been unveiled alongside the affordable Nothing Headphone (a). Well, sort-of revealed, as the brand teased them for ages beforehand.
These two new shoo-ins for our best Android phone list bring upgrades from the Nothing Phone (3a) Pro and kin, and stand in for a Phone (4) which the company isn’t planning on releasing this year. They use new materials to be hardier, have updated software, and redesign the brand’s colorful light-up Glyph Bar with a new recording light. You can read our full thoughts in our Nothing Phone (4a) review.
The standard model has a new periscope zoom camera reaching 3.5x, more than the 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 blinding 4,500 nit maximum.
Other highlights are the newer Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chipset running the device, a larger 5,080mAh battery, and a wider array of recycled materials used in building 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 bigger at 6.78 inches diagonally.
To me, though, the best part of the phone is how it looks…
A colorful phone, but maybe hard to buy
I briefly got to see the Nothing Phone (4a) prior to 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 offence, 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 await our full testing 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-looking devices with some see-through elements.
What really caught my eye was the two colorful models, as a light blue and a pink device are also coming along. These look a lot more fun than your basic smartphone, and at MWC, it was clear that they were the versions everyone couldn’t take their eyes off.
Unfortunately, not everyone can buy 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 begins at $499 / £499 (about AU$900), with prices rising for extra storage and RAM.
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