Nothing is launching a new device, the Phone 3a Series, on March 4. That's a year after the London-based company launched the Phone 2a, which is a budget version of the brand's Phone 2 model released in 2023.

Nothing released the Phone (2) and then the Phone (2a), so you might have thought they’d got out of order here, a bit like those street addresses where 17a comes before 17 for no apparent reason. But I think there’s a method here.