• The Nothing Phone 3a Lite is coming on October 29
• It looks set to be a cheaper version of the Nothing Phone 3a
• This will be the first ‘Lite’ phone Nothing has launched

It seems Nothing isn’t done with its smartphone launches for 2025: the most recent handset we’ve seen from the gadget maker is the Nothing Phone 3 that launched in July, and now the Nothing Phone 3a Lite is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday, October 29.

Nothing announced the launch of the phone on social media, and there’s a brief tease of the rear of the handset. It looks like we’re getting some kind of notification light on the back casing, following in the steps of the glyph lights we’ve seen on previous Nothing phones.

Going off the name, we can expect a more affordable, less powerful version of the Nothing Phone 3a, which launched alongside the Nothing Phone 3a Pro back in March. Both of those phones are powered by the mid-range Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chipset.

This is actually the first time Nothing has introduced a phone with the Lite branding, though of course it’s also responsible for the cheaper CMF-branded handsets – including the CMF Phone 2 Pro that was unveiled in April, yours for $279 / £249 / AU$509 with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.

How ‘Lite’ will it be?

The Nothing Phone 3a Lite actually leaked earlier this month, with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage mentioned – though no processor was specified. That sounds about right for a handset that’s likely to undercut the $379 / £329 / AU$599 starting price of the Nothing Phone 3a.

The Nothing Phone 3a is perhaps the best source of clues for the upcoming Nothing Phone 3a Lite. The existing handset has a triple-lens 50MP+50MP+8MP rear camera, offering 2x optical zoom, with a 32MP selfie camera on the front.

We may see a slightly inferior camera setup on the Nothing Phone 3a Lite, and potentially a screen downgrade too – the Nothing Phone 3a sports a 6.77-inch, 1080 x 2392 pixel AMOLED display with a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz.

All will be revealed in a couple of days, and will take the number of Nothing phones launched this year to four: the full announcement is due at 1pm GMT, which is 6am PT / 9am ET, and midnight on Thursday, October 30 in Australia.

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