Nothing just lately launched the Cellphone (3a) and Cellphone (3a) Professional, and now the previous has been subjected to a teardown on video, which you’ll see embedded beneath to your viewing pleasure.
The Nothing Cellphone (3a), like different Nothing telephones, has a faux clear look that is made doable by a particular layer below the glass again. The Glyph LED lights are a part of the higher cowl for the motherboard.
The primary board has the cameras, of which the primary one has OIS. There are rubber gaskets across the connectors on the primary board, to stop water or moisture from getting into. The sub-board has the identical gasket surrounding the USB port. For warmth dissipation there’s thermal paste and a copper vapor chamber (which is considerably greater than that of the Nothing Cellphone (2a) from final 12 months).
The battery has two pull tabs which you have to handle in a particular order (fortunately they’re labeled 1 and a pair of). If you have to exchange the display, you undergo the again, and also you get entry to the display cable as soon as you have eliminated the battery.
In the long run the Nothing Cellphone (3a) will get a 4.5 out of 10 repairability rating, the place 10 can be most repairable and 1 can be least repairable. The gadget scores probably the most within the battery substitute class, 1.5 out of two doable factors, and least within the design (group and size of time for repairs) and display substitute classes, in each receiving solely 0.5 factors out of two. Splitting the distinction are the components availability and miscellaneous components substitute classes, through which the handset will get 1 level every out of two.
If you wish to be taught extra in regards to the Nothing Cellphone (3a), be sure you do not miss our hands-on overview.
