Nothing’s Phone 2A Plus is a little shinier, a little faster, and a little bit more expensive

A small much than 4 months aft the Phone 2A’s debut, Nothing is already introducing a follow-up with the Phone 2A Plus, which has a fistful of show improvements and a much premium look portion maintaining a sub-$400 terms tag.

Plus is often utilized successful smartphone naming to delineate a larger exemplary with a bigger screen, but that’s not the lawsuit here. The Phone 2A Plus has the aforesaid 6.7-inch OLED surface up beforehand to spell with the aforesaid flashing Glyph Interface successful the back, the aforesaid 5,000mAh battery, and NFC, conscionable similar the 2A.

The biggest upgrade for the Phone 2A Plus is simply a caller MediaTek Dimensity 7350 Pro 5G processor, presently exclusive to Nothing, which the institution claims is astir 10 percent faster than the processor utilized successful the Phone 2A and has a GPU that’s 30 percent faster.

With the archetypal 2A, Nothing demonstrated that a fund telephone doesn’t person to skimp connected design, and the Plus adds 2 caller metallic colorways: an updated achromatic decorativeness and a caller grey enactment that simulates the look of unfinished machined metal.

Even with those show and benignant upgrades, the fund telephone volition merchantability for £399 successful the UK and $399 successful the US, with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. That’s £50 / $50 much than the 12GB mentation of the Phone 2A, and the institution volition proceed to merchantability some models.

There are different improvements, too. The Phone 2A Plus’ front-facing camera got a bump successful solution from 32 megapixels to 50 megapixels, and Nothing says an improved representation algorithm helps heighten facial features similar eyes and facial hair. Finally, max wired charging accrued from 45W connected the 2A to 50W connected the 2A Plus, but there’s inactive nary wireless charging.

The Nothing Phone 2A Plus volition beryllium disposable archetypal astatine the company’s Soho store successful London starting astatine 11AM BST connected August 3rd. Availability successful the US volition commencement connected August 7th astatine 9AM ET, but lone done Nothing’s US beta program and, similar the Phone 2A, with constricted enactment for US networks.