Preorder the new Nothing Phone 3 at Amazon and get double the storage and $100 off

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Amazon Prime Day kicks disconnected adjacent week connected Tuesday, July 8, but 1 of the champion aboriginal mobile offers I've seen is already here. That's close -- you don't request to beryllium a Prime subordinate to snag these savings, and this smartphone is already nether $1,000. 

The caller Nothing Phone 3 conscionable launched (seriously, our adept is inactive successful London post-launch party), and Amazon already has a tempting preorder offer. 

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If you preorder the Nothing Phone 3 connected Amazon, you tin scoop up the 512GB exemplary for $799. That's a $100 discount connected the 16 + 512GB model, and a accidental to swipe up treble the retention for the aforesaid terms arsenic the 12+ 256GB model, which is besides disposable for preorder for $799. You prevention $100, get doubly the storage, and get the caller Nothing Phone 3 erstwhile it ships connected July 15. 

Expert Prakhar Khanna says that Nothing's caller flagship telephone is the brand's astir costly and risky merchandise yet. "At $799, the Nothing Phone 3 no longer undercuts its midrange competitors. Instead, the handset takes connected the likes of the iPhone Pro, Pixel Pro, and Galaxy S phones of the satellite with a striking design, functional AI features, and good bundle tuning," helium says. 

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Khanna got a first-look astatine the caller instrumentality astatine Nothing's motorboat enactment successful London this week, and helium says it's "poised to marque a splash" successful a competitory mobile market. 

The show connected the Nothing Phone 3. 

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At 218 grams, Khanna says the caller Phone 3 isn't the heaviest flagship phone. It features level sides with curved corners and a solid plan that helium says feels ergonomic to hold. It besides supports IP68 particulate and h2o resistance.

The telephone features a 6.67-inch LTPS AMOLED display, which goes from 30Hz to 120Hz alternatively of going each the mode down to 1Hz similar LTPO panels. Khanna says the second is much artillery efficient, but that the Phone 3's 5,150mAh artillery should past a full day. 

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Unlike different flagships, the Nothing Phone 3 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset, which doesn't person the caller Oryon CPU cores. The Nothing flagship features 3 50MP cameras connected the backmost and a 50MP selfie camera connected the front. The Nothing Phone 3 besides supports TrueLens Engine 4, which is said to process photos 125% faster than the erstwhile Phone 2. It besides helps amended HDR performance, real-time country segmentation, little noise, and smoother motion.  

It runs Android 15-based Nothing OS and is promised to get Android 16 aboriginal this year. Khanna says it's besides lodging immoderate useful AI features, similar Essential Space, which holds everything that you grounds with the Essential Key, positive caller features similar Flip to Record, which records and transcribes audio recordings erstwhile you enactment the telephone look down.

Intrigued by Nothing's latest release? Preorder the Nothing Phone 3 for a treble retention upgrade and $100 savings astatine Amazon portion you can. 

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How I rated this deal 

This $100 savings connection translates to 11% savings, which isn't typically a large deal. However, this telephone releases July 15 and is marque caller to the market, truthful it's a first-time discount connected a freshly launched product. Plus, erstwhile you origin successful that the telephone is already nether $1,000 and the larger, 512GB exemplary is selling for $799, it's a beauteous bully bargain. While the 256GB exemplary isn't connected sale, you tin instrumentality vantage of a treble the retention connection by grabbing the 512GB exemplary for the aforesaid $799 price, boosting your retention and fundamentally redeeming you $100. Due to these factors, I've bumped up this first-time connection to a 4/5 Editor's woody rating.