Nothing Phone 2a review: I just found my favourite new budget smartphone

A well-specced budget smartphone with a good camera, the Nothing Phone 2a evolves the brand's innovative design in a fun new direction. Hardware is backed by excellent Nothing apps and the latest features of Android 14.of the next generation of product design. This reminds me phone design needn't be boring or safe; there's room for personality in products and Nothing Phone 2a manages to capture that special something to transcend being just another iteration on an idea.

This new phone features the popular MediaTek Dimensity 7200 Pro processor as you'd find in budget phones from Xiaomi and Motorola. This offers a speedy 2.8GHz and eight cores. Nothing has worked with MediaTek to create a customised chip and hardware solution that offers a fast and smooth experience, for example a RAM Booster feature uses your unused memory as virtual RAM to maintain multiple apps and a smooth experience.

Overall Nothing Phone 2a is a step above Nothing Phone 1 and a welcome replacement as overall it out-specs its predecessor. This budget end of the phone market is getting increasingly crowded, with phones like theA54 proving popular.

The combination of the matt finish edge trim and smooth, curved rear ensures the Nothing Phone 2a feels nice to hold - it's also noticeably lighter than previous models. Placing the two cameras centrally at the top of the phone also makes it more stable on a flat surface, and less likely glide off smooth surfaces . Though, realistically, the way Nothing Phone's are designed around the Glyph system, you'll have it face down so this advantage is mute.

Again, there's the choice to replace all the app icons on the phone with Nothing's own simplified two-tone dot matrix designs. The idea is to destress the experience of using a screen, removing the colour and clashing icons with a unified UI. I like it, but I can imagine some finding the colour-limited roster of icons hard to get used to.

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