I’ve been using Nothing Phone (3) For approximately two weeks. It is the most expensive nothing in the company’s history, but also the best they have ever made. The English startup claims to be ready to compete with the bestwithout giving up the characteristic that best defines them: design.
After two years betting on the glyph interface at the rear, A LED pattern that was illuminated in a personalized way when receiving notificationsin this third generation he dies with a good end. Matrix Glyph.
What is this. As you can see in the superior image, the Nothing Phone (3) has a small upper screen composed of a total of 489 micro-leds. It is the first important step, the LEDs stop functioning as an indicative pattern and become part of a major whole: a circular mini panel.
Although the new Glyph Matrix is automatically activated (I will now tell you when and how), there is a small button in the rear that allows you to activate it in situations where you do not have to be on.


What is it for. Last year, this interface only served as a notification pattern. Now it also indicates them, but it goes much further.
- Allows you to configure, one by one, the system apps and how they will show notifications
- NOTIFY OF LOST CALLS
- Works as volume indicator
- Indicates the chamber timer back
- It serves as … flashlight
- And it has … games
Nothing mixes in the games section the games with useful functions. This is the list namely.
- Clock
- Bottle game
- Battery percentage
- Chronometer
- Mirror (literally is a mirror of what the main camera sees)
- Solar clock
- Paper and scissors


The white circuit you see on the right side of the phone is the button to activate the interface.
Just press the button that I just talked to you to activate the screen, and it is necessary to leave clusted to start working.
Infigurable at the end. I have not been surprised only the amount of functions that it has as an indicator of useful functions, but the degree of customization that allows. This section opens the door to create rules. Extremely specific rules.
- Imagine what you want notifications of WhatsApp
- WhatsApp notifications of one person (or number)
- Who arrive, just, when that person writes a keyword
The filter that allows is spectacular. We can add personalized icons for each of the apps or contacts and even use a photograph to make it and show it in the screw (I do not recommend it much, the pixels are pixels and it is not distinguished very well).
Why is it important. Nothing’s proposal, beyond curiosity and extravagance, is important.
- Shows that the concept of notifications LED can remain alive, and in a better way than ever
- Integrates a second screen that barely consumes energy
- Open the doors to the developers use the nothing SDK to bring the functions of their apps specifically
At a time when innovating seems almost impossible, Nothing has evolved a system that was simply good, towards a more complex and real utility solution.
Image | Nothing
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