Carl Pei-led Nothing, not too long ago unveiled its newest smartphone, the Nothing Cellphone 3. The corporate, which is understood for providing mid-range smartphones, began receiving flak for the cellphone’s pricing and its polarising design. Nonetheless, there appears to be some excellent news coming in for the UK-based smartphone producer. A YouTube content material creator, identified for his teardown movies, has put the Nothing Cellphone 3’s sturdiness to the take a look at whereas performing a teardown, and it appears that evidently the handset has finished fairly properly.
Nothing Cellphone 3 Sturdiness Check
YouTube content material creator, Zack Nelson (@JerryRigEverything), in his latest video carried out a teardown of the Nothing Phone 3. In the course of the teardown, Nelson carried out a number of sturdiness exams on Nothing’s newest providing. The exams included placing a lighter’s flame on the show, bending the cellphone to check its structural integrity, scratching the show, scratching the aluminium body and the glass again with a knife and so forth.
Nothing Cellphone 3 will get Gorilla Glass 7i safety for the show. Whereas the touchscreen began displaying scratch marks at Moh’s hardness scale stage 6, at stage 7, Nelson was capable of put deeper scratches on the show. Because of this the Gorilla Glass 7i would possibly defend the cellphone’s display screen from getting scratched by keys and cash, but it surely may not forestall scratches from knives or metal nails.
Nonetheless, the spotlight of the video was the bend take a look at. Within the video, Nelson utilized stress on the entrance and the again of the cellphone together with his fingers, throughout which the cellphone didn’t visibly flex. He confirmed this saying that “surprisingly, even with the added antenna traces” on the Nothing Cellphone 3’s aluminium body, the cellphone didn’t “bend in any respect”. This means that it’s a properly constructed handset that gives good structural integrity.
In the course of the burn take a look at, the 6.67-inch show of the Nothing Cellphone 3 obtained broken, and it was unable to get well to its authentic state even after cooling off. Total, Nelson mentioned, the cellphone was capable of cross his sturdiness take a look at.
Nothing Cellphone 3 Teardown
After the sturdiness take a look at, Nelson proceeded with the teardown. He took off the again panel of the Nothing Cellphone 3, which revealed that the rear digital camera bumps are built-in into the clear glass. The quilt of the contact capacitive button that’s used for controlling Glyph Matrix can also be a part of the rear glass. Underneath the Gorilla Glass Victus protected-glass, the cellphone has a panel masking the internals of the cellphone. Moreover, the teardown reveals that the crimson recording indicator on the again, is definitely a white LED gentle that’s lined by a red-coloured movie.
Apparently, Nelson’s video reveals that the rear wi-fi charging copper coils on the Nothing Cellphone 3 aren’t coiling round in a symmetrical circle, seemingly making room for Glyph Matrix’s rear contact capacitive button.
To refresh your reminiscence, Nothing Cellphone 3 was launched in India on July 1 with a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset, paired with as much as 16GB RAM. The cellphone sports activities a 6.67-inch AMOLED display screen with 1.5K (1,260 x 2,800 pixels) decision, 460ppi pixel density, HDR10+ help, and 120Hz adaptive refresh fee. For cameras, it will get a triple digital camera setup on the again, with three 50-megapixel shooters. On the entrance, it includes a 50-megapixel selfie digital camera. The Indian variant of the Cellphone 3 packs a 5,500mAh battery with 65W wired quick charging help.