Nothing has recently globally launched the Phone (4a) series and it is set to be available in Malaysia from 1 April 2026. This series redefines the mid-range segment with a premium design, bold colors, flagship-grade cameras featuring an advanced periscope telephoto lens, and powerful Snapdragon performance. Built on Nothing OS, it offers a fast and personalized user experience.
The Phone (4a) Pro combines transparent design with enhanced durability and a wider range of colors, delivering the best camera experience in its class. With Nothing OS 4.1, users benefit from smarter AI tools and deeper personalization, making tasks simpler and more creative. The Phone (4a) series inspires users to capture and connect.
A Standout Design
The Phone (4a) Series builds on Nothing’s unique style by blending a warm feel with advanced engineering.
The Phone (4a) Pro features a sleek metal design that is just 7.95 mm thick, making it the thinnest Nothing phone yet. Its metal finish feels high-quality, helps cool the device thanks to a large cooling system, and offers strong protection against dust and water, allowing it to be submerged in water up to 25 cm for 20 minutes.
The phone’s transparent design includes the camera and the Glyph Matrix, working harmoniously with the metal body to create a smooth look that glimmers in light. Available in silver, black, and a trendy metallic pink, it reflects the brand’s design values.
On the top of the Phone (4a), the transparent area showcases the central camera, a red Recording Light, and the new Glyph Bar, highlighting its features. The lower part shows the inner workings through clear glass. Stronger metal buttons, a reinforced camera area, and a tougher frame make it more durable, with IP64 protection and support for water immersion up to 25 cm for 20 minutes. New color options like transparent blue and soft pink bring warmth and uniqueness without losing elegance.
Masterful Photography
The Phone (4a) Pro takes photography to the next level with a large Sony LYT700c main camera with OIS and a 50MP telephoto periscope lens that can zoom up to 140x, which is the longest zoom available on a Nothing phone. It also includes a flexible Sony ultra-wide lens and a 32MP selfie camera, allowing you to capture everything from stunning landscapes to detailed portraits with amazing clarity. With the TrueLens Engine 4, it supports Ultra XDR photos and 4K video, giving you bright colors and clear details, similar to Dolby Vision.
The Nothing Phone (4a) offers a top-notch camera system, featuring a 50MP periscope lens, a 50MP main sensor, an ultra-wide lens, and a 32MP selfie camera. You can capture details from 0.6x to 70x zoom, perfect for both wide views and close-up portraits. Thanks to the advanced TrueLens Engine 4, it enhances photos with AI technology, including Ultra XDR pictures developed with Google, improving contrast in both still and motion photos for easy sharing on Instagram. The camera experience has been completely redesigned, including expert presets, adjustable settings, an AI Photo Eraser to erase unwanted objects, and seven new Nothing watermarks for creative flair.
The Evolution of the Glyph Interface
The Nothing Glyph Interface is more than just lights; it’s a fun and useful way to communicate that helps you focus and avoids the need to turn your phone over.
The Nothing Phone (4a) features a new Glyph Bar with 63 mini-LEDs arranged in 7 square sections. Each section gives off bright, even light of up to 3500 nits, which is 40% brighter than the Glyph Interface on the Phone (3a). With three special technologies, including lampshades that prevent light from leaking and reduce yellow edges, notifications remain clear even in direct sunlight. The Glyph Bar also works as a soft light for pictures or videos. Notifications become smarter with visual cues for calls, messages, charging, timers, and more. You can set up custom light patterns for different contacts and notifications, paired with Nothing’s unique sounds, making important alerts more lively while minimizing distractions.
The Phone (4a) Pro takes things further with a top-notch Glyph Matrix made of 137 mini-LEDs. It uses fewer lights than before but covers 57% more area and is 100% brighter at around 3000 nits, providing clearer and more detailed notifications. Even without a special Glyph Button, popular Glyph Toys like Battery, Timer, Digital Clock, Solar Path, and Glyph Mirror are still supported and work seamlessly with the Glyph Matrix AOD experience. Customization remains key, allowing users to set their own light patterns for calls, contacts, and notifications. The improved Glyph Matrix reduces distractions from the screen, keeps focus where it needs to be, and transforms notifications into functional or fun light displays, ensuring that nothing important gets overlooked.
Nothing OS
Nothing OS is calm, easy to use, and really helpful. It looks nice without being flashy, works quickly without feeling rushed, and adjusts to your needs without extra effort.
Nothing OS 4.1, based on Android 16, offers a cleaner and simpler interface with new icons, a refreshed lock screen, and a better dark mode. Multitasking is easier with floating apps and adjustable Quick Settings, and widgets are more flexible than ever. The AI Dashboard allows for precise control over AI features, and behind-the-scenes improvements make the system smoother and faster. Camera and gallery apps have also been enhanced. You can now customise by hiding apps and creating lightweight widgets through the Playground, helping you stay productive and creative every day.
NOS 4.1 brings a more vibrant and customisable lock screen, two relaxation-focused widgets, improved Live Notifications across screens, and a Glyph Interface. Smooth animations and quicker app launches make every swipe and interaction simple and intuitive. NOS 4.1 builds on Nothing OS 4.0, providing a smarter, smoother, and more personal experience that keeps you informed, relaxed, and in control.
Nothing will provide 3 years of Android updates and 6 years of security patches for the Phone (4a) series.
Nothing AI makes life simple, organised, and inspired.
Nothing’s Essential AI tools make daily life easier: Essential Search lets you quickly find information from different apps just by using a keyword. Essential Memory tailors results based on what you’ve done and your saved Memories. Plus, the Playground helps you create and share your own no-code Essential Apps on the home screen, using AI to turn your ideas into reality. Nothing AI makes your phone smarter, more personal, and more user-friendly.
For the first time on the (4a) Series, Essential Space allows cloud access, making it easy to use across phones, desktops, laptops, and more.
A Flagship Display
Phone (4a) Pro raises the standard further with a 6.83″ AMOLED display, 1.5K resolution, 450 PPI, and a 144 Hz refresh rate for silky-smooth swipes. Peak brightness reaches 5000 nits (HDR), making it Nothing’s brightest screen yet, perfectly rendering Ultra HDR photos and videos with stunning contrast. Gamers benefit from 2500 Hz touch sampling for instant responsiveness, and 2160 Hz PWM dimming ensures comfortable viewing in low-light conditions. Corning Gorilla Glass 7i protection guarantees durability, combining flagship-level performance with everyday practicality.
The Nothing Phone (4a) features a 6.78″ AMOLED display with 1.5K resolution (1224 × 2720) and 440 PPI, delivering exceptional detail across every inch. With peak brightness of 4500 nits (HDR) and 1600 nits (HMB), content remains clear even under direct sunlight, while Ultra HDR photos and videos shine with brilliant highlights and deep AMOLED blacks. A 120 Hz adaptive refresh rate and 2500 Hz touch sampling ensure smooth interactions and instant responsiveness, while 2160 Hz PWM dimming reduces eye strain. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 7i, twice as scratch-resistant as previous-generation cover glass, and survives a 1-meter drop, letting users place the phone face down without worry and fully enjoy the transparent design and Glyph Bar.
The Latest Snapdragon 7 Series Platform
The Phone (4a) Pro is powered by the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 chip, which makes it 27% faster at processing tasks, 30% better for graphics, and 65% more capable in artificial intelligence. It has top-quality LPDDR5X memory and UFS 3.1 storage, allowing for quick app switching and fast launches, with memory operations up to 100% faster and storage reads 147% faster. The advanced Qualcomm AI Engine provides strong performance for AI tasks, getting close to the performance of Snapdragon 8 series devices. It also supports smooth gaming, running BGMI at 120 Hz and PUBG at 90 Hz, making it highly responsive for all activities.
The Phone (4a) is equipped with the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chip, offering 7% faster processing and graphics, and 10% better energy efficiency compared to the previous model. With LPDDR4x memory and UFS 3.1 storage, it also provides much faster data speeds. Its AI performance is 92.5% faster than the Phone (2a), thanks to the Snapdragon Neural Intellect and the 6th-gen Qualcomm AI Engine. Gamers enjoy smooth experiences, with BGMI at 120 Hz and PUBG at 90 Hz.
Listen, Watch, Create, and Play
The Nothing Phone (4a) Series has a 5080 mAh battery that lasts up to 17 hours for music, video, gaming, and messaging. It features 50W Fast Charging, which recharges the battery to 60% in just 30 minutes, almost 10% quicker than the Phone (2a) Series. Its battery management keeps over 90% capacity after 1,200 charge cycles, which is more than three years of daily use.
Lowest Carbon Footprint Yet
The Phone (4a) Pro features a carbon footprint of 50.5 kg COâ‚‚e, with 46 components made from recycled materials, which is 16.6% of its weight. Its packaging is over 99% plastic-free, and assembly is fully powered by renewable energy.
The Nothing Phone (4a) has a carbon footprint of 51.13 kg COâ‚‚e, the lowest for a Nothing device. It includes 30 components with recycled materials, featuring 30% recycled plastic, and 100% recycled aluminium and tin, alongside 80% recycled steel. Its packaging is also over 99% plastic-free, with final assembly utilizing 100% renewable energy.
Pricing and Availability
Phone (4a) will be available in black, white, blue and pink. Phone (4a) Pro will be available in black, silver and pink. In Malaysia, pricing and availability will be announced on 1st April 2026.