Nothing phone 3 Teardown ..... Revealing the truht....

JerryRigEverthing

Nothing is back again with a smartphone design that got dropped on its head.... But is that a bad thing?  Personally I'm glad that Nothing is doing something different on their new Nothing Phone 3.   The only way to know for sure if the Nothing Phone 3 is worth buying is with a JerryRigEverything Nothing Phone 3 Durability Test, and a Nothing Phone 3 Teardown. Lets get started.

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00:00Some might say it's ugly, but might I remind you that Picasso did a lot of paintings which

00:05look very much like this phone, and they sell for millions of dollars. It also looks like the

00:11original model was dropped a few times on its head during the design process, and nothing decided to

00:16ship it anyway. To each their own, but personally I'm a fan. Life is short and there's no reason to

00:21be normal. Inside the box there is an extremely interesting new card from the European Union

00:27that tells us how energy efficient the phone is. Nothing got an A rating for efficiency,

00:32with additional info on how long the battery lasts and how repairable and durable the smartphone is.

00:38Apparently this Nothing Phone 3 got a C on repairability. Personally, I like this label.

00:43It's like adding nutrition facts to food packages. It's good for consumers to know what their phone

00:48scores compared to others. Or maybe this is just the EU trying to put me out of business.

00:54The trippiest new addition to this Nothing Phone 3 is the Glyph Matrix in the upper right corner.

00:59I won't dive into too much detail, but it can tell time, display battery levels, and play little

01:04games with you like rock, paper, scissors. We'll see how it all works from the inside if the Nothing

01:093 snaps in half. One thing the EU testing card mentioned is that this Nothing 3 scratches at a

01:14level 5 on most scale of hardness, which is interesting since as we know, and as we've seen on

01:20every screen that isn't plastic or sapphire, tempered glass nearly always scratches at a level 6 with

01:26deeper grooves at a level 7. This Nothing Phone 3 is using Gorilla Glass 7i and very clearly scratches

01:33right where it's supposed to. So I imagine that the EU listing a level 5 on its scorecard as it was the

01:39last level that remained damage free and did not receive scratches. In which case it would still be a

01:45very true statement. The sides of the Nothing 3 are made with anodized aluminum. There is a polished

01:52metal AI button that I'll never press, along with an aluminum power button which does not come out of

01:57its slot. There are quite a few plastic antenna lines though, and hopefully those don't come back to

02:02haunt us. The top of the Phone 3 has three holes for the upper stereo loudspeaker, and a small noise

02:08cancelling microphone hole built into the antenna line. The left side of the phone has two individual

02:12volume buttons, and two more antenna lines surrounded by, you guessed it, more aluminum. The bottom of

02:19the Nothing 3 has a metal SIM card tray and a USB-C 2.0 port which is wildly out of date for a flagship.

02:26When you have the same specs as an iPhone, you know you're at least 3 years behind. Most real

02:31flagship androids are using USB 3.2 which transfers data 20 times faster than 2.0. The dual SIM card tray

02:39does have a rubber ring around the edge to help with the IP68 water resistance. And the back panel

02:44is made with real glass and appears to be transparent, showing off a stylized version of an artist's

02:50interpretation of what's inside of a smartphone. The upper, off, center, and out of place camera lens

02:55is a 3x 50 megapixel periscope telephoto, protected with a glass lens. Not directly below that first lens,

03:02we have the 50 megapixel main camera, and directly to the right of that we have the 50 megapixel ultra

03:08wide, also protected with glass. But not directly above that camera, we have the circular glyph matrix,

03:14which is under the glass panel and does not protrude up with the 3 main camera rings. The 3 main camera

03:20rings stick up just about as far as any mainstream camera bumps, so calling this panel flat would indeed

03:26be incorrect. If you really want a completely flat back panel, you should check out Red Magic. I do like

03:32the red recording light, it's almost old school enough to match Picasso's vibe. Luckily for nothing

03:37though, the rear camera lenses do appear to be permanently attached to the rear glass. There's

03:41no gap and they do not come off like we saw on Samsung's recent phone. Flipping our way around to

03:50the screen, we see a 1 billion color 6.6 inch 120Hz OLED, a display that lasts for about 20 seconds under the

03:58heat from my lighter. This nothing 3 also has a touch sampling rate of 1000Hz, which makes it great for

04:04gaming. The only phone with a higher touch sampling rate that I know of is the Red Magic 10 Pro, which

04:10sits at 2500Hz. The burn mark on the OLED is permanent though, so don't try this at home.

04:16With nothing calling this its first true flagship, there is a bit more awkwardness if it were to snap in

04:22half. But surprisingly, even with the extra antenna lines placed throughout the frame, there is no

04:28flex at all. And nothing has achieved iPhone levels of rigidity on the nothing phone 3 while costing

04:35less. The nothing phone 3 definitely survives my durability test. And like 799 bucks is still a hefty

04:43bag of coin. But to be honest, it's not nearly as hefty as monthly smartphone plans themselves have

04:48become. They've sneaked right on up past 100 bucks a month for the average American, and I feel like

04:54more people should be talking about that. Especially because for as little as 5 bucks a month you can

04:59get a phone plan with my channel sponsor Tello and still get to keep your same phone. I'll explain how

05:04it works as I try not to break the glass. With Tello you can keep your same number and usually your same

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05:26want, and there are no long term commitments or contracts, just how we like it. Plus you get free

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05:42not having brick and mortar stores, and only using extremely good looking social media influencers to

05:48bring awareness to their services. I'll leave a link for Tello down in the description. And huge

05:52thanks to Tello for taking on the big boys and having extremely reasonable prices. I'm glad I can help

05:57more people know they can save money. With the back glass off, we realize that indeed the glass is

06:02totally clear, and the Glyph Matrix screen is left behind in the body, along with the physical,

06:07capacitive, conductive metal button that can feel your finger through the glass. The cameras themselves

06:12are all still here doing their own things, and the raised camera bumps are pulled away with the panel.

06:18There are six visible silver T5 screws scattered around the white plastics, with two more hidden

06:23under a flap in the bottom right hand corner. With those gone, we can see a few things. One, it does

06:29look way better naked, and two, the red diode is actually just a normal white diode with a red filter on

06:35top. It's kind of cool. The capacitive Glyph button has a ribbon that runs through the plastics to

06:40contact pads on the bottom, which then sends signal to the charging port board that has gold receiving

06:45pins. Also kind of cool. I should probably turn the phone off at this point. And then we go deeper,

06:50removing seven visible black Phillips head screws. The very last screw is a very tricky little guy

06:56hidden under the flash diffuser, where the Glyph Matrix screen is also plugged in. The Glyph Matrix

07:02screen is coin sized with 489 individual pixels. Curiously, the rear wireless charging pad does

07:08not have its copper coils coiling in symmetrical circles. To make room for that Glyph button, the

07:13circle has a pacman looking mouth cutout, or almost like the bite out of an apple, which makes me think

07:19that next year's iPhone could do the coolest thing. They won't, obviously, but at least now we know

07:24wireless charging pads don't have to be perfect circles to generate an electromagnetic field. It looks

07:29like Nothing's battery can come out easy enough. Thumbs up for that. I'll pop off the two charging

07:34plugs at the top, just like little Legos, and then pull the single plastic strip, releasing the 5,150

07:42milliamp hour battery. Rumor has it that India gets a special version of the Nothing 3 with an even

07:47larger battery inside. So congrats for that. Under the battery we see a rather large copper vapor chamber

07:53that continues upward under the motherboard. At first glance, the lower loudspeaker is kind of small. I'll remove the

07:59three more screws and pull out the charging port board. This guy can charge up at a very impressive

08:0465 watts. It has a red rubber ring for the waterproofing, and nothing says they've tested the durability of

08:10this port to 30,000 insertions. That's like once a day for 82 years, which is longer than the average

08:17human lifespan or the average age of US politicians. You can pick your own analogy since both are similarly

08:23depressing. Speaking of depressing, this loudspeaker has more balls than anyone in Washington.

08:28They should release the Epstein list. Down here at the bottom of the phone we have our square

08:33haptic vibrator, the waterproofing mesh over the loudspeaker opening, and the tiny optical

08:38fingerprint scanning underscreen camera. Moving our way up to the motherboard there is one more

08:42cleverly camouflaged black Phillips head screw in the upper right side. After that though the whole

08:47thing can lift up and out of the frame. The motherboard does indeed have a clean rectangular cutout for

08:52the 50 megapixel telephoto periscope camera. The main 50 megapixel camera does have optical image

08:57stabilization, but the wide angle does not have any OIS, which is normal. The periscope camera does have

09:04internal optical image stabilization, but we'll let it survive this time around. The motherboard has a

09:09squiggle of thermal paste on the back of that Snapdragon 8S Gen 4, and we also get a look at the 50 megapixel

09:15front facing camera. The whole thing of course is able to transfer its processing heat through the

09:20thermal paste to the large vapor chamber, and then both to the frame of the phone and out through

09:25the front of the screen. The upper earpiece doubles as a loudspeaker, which does also indeed have balls

09:30of its own, and now we cross all of our fingers and hope he's still alive. Fun fact, nothing says they

09:35are using 100% recycled tin, 80% recycled steel, and 100% recycled aluminum in the frame of the phone.

09:43They also used 100% renewable energy during the final assembly process, which is cool of them. I also have

09:49solar panels on my house, so technically this teardown is also done with 100% renewable energy. And look

09:55at that, everything still works. Honestly, I like what nothing is doing, and I think next time they

10:00should put the cameras into the charging port board to really mess with the haters. If you want to save

10:04money on your own smartphone plan, check out Tello in the description. And thanks a ton for watching.

10:10I'll see you around.

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