Nothing on Thursday (February 13, 2025) announced that its upcoming smartphone Phone 3a will ship with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. However, the London-based tech startup did not specify the exact name of the processor in the Nothing Phone 3a.

“I’m happy to announce that we are going back to the Qualcomm Snapdragon series with the Phone (3a). Compared to the Phone (2a) Plus it’s going to have 25% faster CPU, and a 72% faster NPU,” said Carl Pei, Nothing’s CEO.

Nothing is expected to launch Phone 3a and Phone 3a Pro on March 4 during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 in Barcelona. The phones will sell on Flipkart in India which the company has already announced.

With the recent unveil of the new Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 platform, it is being speculated that the Phone 3a could use this processor. And, for the Phone 3a Pro, it might use a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor.

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The Nothing Phone 3a is expected to use a 6.2 inch display while the Pro may get a 6.7 inch screen with 120 Hz refresh rate.

Both the phones are likely to use a 5,000 mAh battery with different charging speeds.

Nothing Phone 3a might use dual rear camera headed by a 50 MP shooter and a single selfie lens of 16 MP. Whereas, the Nothing Phone 3a Pro is expected to feature triple rear camera led by a 50 MP along with one telephoto lens and an ultrawide sensor and a single front lens of 32 MP.

Nothing Phone 3a may launch in the mid segment between ₹25k to ₹30k while the Phone 3a Pro is expected to breach the mid-₹30k segment.

Nothing has already announced that the Phone 3a series is being manufactured in Chennai.