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Nothing Phone (2a) 5G 8GB/128GB $426, 12GB/256GB $496 + Del (C&C/ in-Store) @ JB Hi-Fi

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Nothing Phone (2a) 5G 8GB/128GB $426, 12GB/256GB $496 + Del (C&C/ in-Store) @ JB Hi-Fi
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Clear on 20/11/2024 - 09:22 jbhifi.com.au (2882 clicks)
Last edited 20/11/2024 - 09:28

I was having a bit of a chinwag with Miss JB and here's some good prices on the Nothing Phone from the upcoming Black Friday sale catalogue at an all time low price.

These phones are good value as they offer high performance with an impressive AMOLED display, cameras that hold up well in reviews (for the price), a large battery and the customisable LED lights on the back that Nothing are known for are good for notifications. It makes me miss the colour notification LED found on the Nexus 5 back in the day.

Specifications:

  • Android 14 (guaranteed 3 major Android upgrades)
  • Mediatek Dimensity 7200 Pro CPU
  • 6.7" FHD+ AMOLED Gorilla Glass 5 120Hz 700nits (1300nits peak) Display
  • 8GB or 12GB RAM
  • 128GB or 256GB Storage
  • 50 MP main (OIS) + 50 MP ultrawide + 32 MP selfie
  • 5000mAh battery with 45W wired charging
  • Dual nano SIM
  • NFC
  • IP54 Water Resistance
  • WiFi 6 / Bluetooth 5.2
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Comments

  • morediscount on 20/11/2024 - 09:30

    how is this compared to my S10e .. ?

    • lordezekiel on 20/11/2024 - 09:33
      +57

      This is nothing.

    • Clear on 20/11/2024 - 09:43
      +5

      Definitely an upgrade in performance and updates. You'll lose the microSD slot, less water resistance and no wireless charging.

      • RTX9090Ti on 20/11/2024 - 09:45

        Nothing mentions about eSim?

        • morediscount on 20/11/2024 - 09:47
          +4

          S10e doesnt have eSim anyways

        • spaij on 21/11/2024 - 00:24

          I see nothing mentioned.

    • ozchobie on 20/11/2024 - 11:25

      Love the compactness of the s10e but the battery sucked so bad and probably not getting any updates. This is a great upgrade for sure.

      But if you like to keep your phones for a long time, it's probably just worth it staying with Samsung. The S24 series or even the zflip6 are great choices for good performance, great cameras, display and battery life, compactness, and long term support.

      • sidozziee on 20/11/2024 - 12:25

        I am in same situation. Happy with my S10e. Don't see any need to change phone but battery sucks. Will it help to change battery?

        • ozchobie on 20/11/2024 - 14:07

          Definitelt not worth it at this stage.

      • iunoe on 20/11/2024 - 12:35

        If you're willing to flash LineageOS, the S10e is still supported and currently at Android 14.

    • OzByte on 03/12/2024 - 15:29

      s10e is no longer the sub $300 king for custom roms like LineageOS because Samsung VoLTE code is proprietary and so s10e is useless post 3G shutdown

      RIP custom s10e … hello Moto

  • Ueki23 on 20/11/2024 - 09:35

    How are the battery life on these?

    • at9 on 20/11/2024 - 09:40
      +7

      I have it only charge to 80% but can get 24 hours out of it.

      • TheFIREnanceGuy on 20/11/2024 - 10:35

        That doesnt tell me much. What is your average screen time per day?

        • at9 on 20/11/2024 - 10:50
          +2

          Between 4-5 hours.

    • stephendt on 20/11/2024 - 10:32

      It's pretty good but nothing groundbreaking

      • Ueki23 on 20/11/2024 - 10:35

        Thanks for both yall reply. I'm trying to help a friend find a new phone and he's concerned about battery life and I told him it'll just depend on how he uses the phone

        • Allaa1980 on 20/11/2024 - 11:17
          +1

          My brother has this phone and battery life is very impressive. Overall it's a solid phone except in the camera department which is expected since it's not a flagship phone.

      • YoursTruly on 20/11/2024 - 14:25
        +1

        It's pretty good but nothing groundbreaking

        nothing has been groundbreaking in the phone market as of late…

        …at least - I feel - since Steve Jobs passed away. Hardly any innovations.

    • zombie hunter on 20/11/2024 - 11:06

      Nothing

  • Quarter Pounder on 20/11/2024 - 09:36
    +1

    are these rootable?

  • JumpingUnicorns on 20/11/2024 - 09:44

    Is there somewhere online we can read the catalogue before tomorrow?

  • reader64 on 20/11/2024 - 09:46

    the 499 s22 deal makes more sense for the price

    the camera sensor on these are very janky in low light

  • levinlfre on 20/11/2024 - 09:54
    +1

    This or the Pixel 8a/8… Apart from better camera and longer OS update support, any other areas that Pixel does better?

    • life is suffering on 20/11/2024 - 09:58

      SoC?

    • 16k-zx81 on 20/11/2024 - 13:52
      +4

      Pixel is waterproof
      Has much brighter screen
      Has faster processor
      Has wifi 7
      .
      Nothing has better battery
      2 Sim card slots

    • jaimex2 on 20/11/2024 - 14:39

      Pixel for sure.

  • Mortgagetightass on 20/11/2024 - 10:03
    +19

    I posted this a few months back, still relevant..

    I've had this phone (in white as well) for 2 weeks (5 months now), did that JBHIFI $50 3G phone credit trade in thing, got it for $479…

    Pros
    - Excellent screen (120Hz OLED, 6.7" and 1200+ nits)
    - Haptics and build quality are nice (design subjective)
    - Glyphs on the back actually useful for notifications
    - Battery life is actually insane, overnight I will lose 1% in 9-10 hours, it's a 2-day phone for me with 6-8 hours screen on time
    - Camera is probably iPhone 12 good.. video is great and very stable, night video is impressive too!
    - Software is the best part of this phone for me, already had 3 updates in 2 weeks… my old Xiaomi had 3 updates in 9 months lol
    - Symmetrical bezels
    - 4 years of updates from Google/Nothing
    - Don't be fooled by MediaTek, its not 2019 anymore, this is an incredibly efficient chip with a 750K antutu score.

    CONS
    - Camera is good, but it's not a flagship, it is a $500 phone though
    - Glyphs can feel gimmicky after a while
    - No charger in the box
    - Get a case, this thing is 100% plastic and will scratch
    - It's huge/wide phone, may be uncomfortable to hold for some.

    Just my 2c… 9/10 for me given its price.

    EDIT: Since I posted this comment 4 months ago, the updates are something phenomenal. They listen in the forums and update things people want. 10/10 support.

    • nzcoops on 20/11/2024 - 11:02

      Can you expand on "huge/wide phone"?

      Are you holding it in landscape? Dimensions all seem pretty standard.

    • joomax on 20/11/2024 - 11:14
      +2

      biggest con for me is no eSIM, basically a dealbreaker sadly. keen to get into the nothing ecosystem but they haven't quite hit the right feature set for me yet

      • bert-lifts on 21/11/2024 - 03:15
        +1

        you can get an esim adapter these days, really not a big deal as what it used to be.

    • GTR12 on 20/11/2024 - 11:28

      You mentioned 4 years of updates, does that mean 3 OS upgrades and 4 years of security updates, or is yours a typo and it's 3 OS upgrades like the OP mentioned?

      • Clear on 20/11/2024 - 11:46
        +2

        I double checked. 3 years of Major updates and 4 years of security updates.

        • GTR12 on 20/11/2024 - 11:50
          +1

          Cheers, can you add that to the post?

  • witheredcouch on 20/11/2024 - 10:05
    +5

    Extremely tempting price, but I couldn't buy a phone without E-Sim Support, it makes travel so much easier to the point where it is one of those features that is a dealbreaker.

    • seefu on 20/11/2024 - 10:15
      +16

      I'm using a phone without esim support but got around it with a 5ber esim adapter in the second Sim slot.
      You use the 5ber app to load Sims onto it..

      Works great. About to go overseas again in 2 weeks. Will be using 3 different esims in that time

      • witheredcouch on 20/11/2024 - 10:17
        +2

        I didn't even know that was a thing! Great to know there is an alternative now!

      • supermykal on 20/11/2024 - 19:17

        i went through the trouble of resetting my password to be able to log in just to give this an upvote

      • jc123 on 20/11/2024 - 23:49

        Thanks for the suggestion Didn't realise there was a work-around solution.

        I'm not currently looking to upgrade my phone atm until I need to, as it has dual sim capacity but no e-sim function.
        This will be great with future overseas plans.

  • Esteban5150 on 20/11/2024 - 10:06
    +1

    How will this phone be performance wise against the S21 5G?

    • lilkid28 on 20/11/2024 - 10:17
      -4

      Nothing really..

  • havequick on 20/11/2024 - 10:12
    +3

    I bought one of these earlier this year after washing machining my S22 Ultra and the Nothing definitely felt faster than the S22U. I ended up jumping on a Pixel 9 deal when it released a few months ago out of FOMO on the great deals.

    Both the design of the UI and its fluidity are superior to Google's take on AOSP on the Pixel 9 and the Nothing also has far superior battery life.

    Would buy again in a heartbeat.

    No esim is a bummer though.

    • Mugsy on 20/11/2024 - 10:53

      Yeah, if an esim is a priority, either Moto G85 or Samsung A55 (the latter if you need more years of updates) would be my picks.

    • snirodha on 20/11/2024 - 10:54
      +3

      How is the camera compare to pixel ?

      • havequick on 21/11/2024 - 01:40

        Surprisingly well, I'd say it's about pixel 4/5 level which is actually pretty good. The colour accuracy was shocking at first but for a couple months they were issuing almost weekly updates to the App and OS to improve it because they recognised it was an issue and straight up told the community that they will fix it and after about 2 months of updates they finally did.

        If you're looking at review photos that were done at launch, try going to the Nothing reddit and looking at the photos there being posted now, big difference.

        There's also a really good community, was literally in, a thread with Carl pei directly at one point and some of the initial investors and tech team regarding the chatgpt integration.

        If my pixel broke today I'd probably buy the Nothing phone 2 if I could afford it, just to have the slightly better processor but I have not doubt that the 2a and 2 would perform pretty much the same in day to day tasks, the optimising they've done to the OS is nuts.

    • jc123 on 20/11/2024 - 23:47

      Someone in this thread has mentioned a creative solution to the lack of esim issue with the purchase of an esim adapter (5ber eSIM)

      • havequick on 21/11/2024 - 01:41

        This is a thing that exists?!

        • Mugsy on 21/11/2024 - 06:36

          They've existed for a while now. Another brand to consider to 5ber is esim.me.

          The pro with using an esim adapter is that if you need two physical sim slots (say for your Aussie sim and a local overseas sim if you're traveling), this remains an option. If you have a phone with a built in esim, you can't magically get two physical sim slots.

          The main con is that it's an extra expense and the esim adapters that can store multiple esims aren't cheap… expensive enough that I opted to buy a discounted Moto G54 instead of adding an esim adapter to my old Oppo Reno 2Z.

          I personally prefer to let my Android settings manage my esims rather than rely on a third party app but that's mainly just how I like to organise my esims.

  • Mugsy on 20/11/2024 - 10:20

    Anyone had experience with this in China using a local chinese sim card?

    Parents have a local chinese sim which I'm looking for a dual sim android phone so Dad can use his secondary amaysim service without having to physically swap sims. The 4yrs of updates is also important… we noticed my parents having issues with their phones for roaming when updates on their phones ceased.

    • Mugsy on 20/11/2024 - 11:18

      Decided to try answering my own question…

      On paper at least, it looks like the Nothing Phone 2A supports all the bands used by China Unicom (dad's Chinese sim provider…

      https://www.kimovil.com/en/frequency-checker/CN/nothing-phon…

      Of course, what's on paper is one thing… actual world performance is another matter altogether.

  • timhn on 20/11/2024 - 10:45
    +1

    So, will it work on all 3 Telcos?

  • Naigrabzo on 20/11/2024 - 11:00

    This nothing should count for something.

    • Mugsy on 20/11/2024 - 11:32

      Will require a rebranding to Something Phone then.

      • Naigrabzo on 20/11/2024 - 11:58

        Something Something

        Looks like Uncle roger branding.
        OR an off brand phone from Stephen He

  • Playboi Carti on 20/11/2024 - 11:31
    +1

    I have noting 💔

  • Dienk on 20/11/2024 - 11:49
    +1

    I have this. Amazing phone. Great battery (I charge only 80% per day)

  • ce5himm on 20/11/2024 - 11:52

    How about their os updates plan.

    Edit: saw that in the description

  • ce5himm on 20/11/2024 - 11:58

    Can we try them in store? JB put them demo units on?
    Any sale on nothing 2 not 2a?

    • seefu on 20/11/2024 - 12:27
      +1

      My local JB has both the 2 and 2(a) on demo

      • ce5himm on 20/11/2024 - 13:28

        I better go and check. Thanks

  • dm02 on 20/11/2024 - 12:23

    Where did you get the Black Friday catalogue?

    • Clear on 20/11/2024 - 12:35
      +3

      I asked someone at JB :)

  • mish.kebab on 20/11/2024 - 12:50

    Would this be a decent upgrade from my 4a 5g?

    Feeling like I should just wait for 8a sales, battery is starting to drop in capacity.

    • heef on 21/11/2024 - 02:42
      +1

      Good upgrade with some notable software advantages of you've gotten bored of the pixel experience. But 8a will deliver more lifetime updates (7 yrs vs nothing's 3).

      • mish.kebab on 21/11/2024 - 10:02
        +1

        Ahhh, thanks for letting me know ☺️

        I'll have to have a google of the software changes. Appreciate your time!

  • Iggemo on 20/11/2024 - 13:04

    So are we confident JB stock will work and not be blocked? They are selling Xiaomis also - i might be interested in purchasing one but not if it's soon to be blocked..

    • lightreflections on 20/11/2024 - 16:19

      I bought the Plus and no issues; I'm on Optus

    • ce5himm on 20/11/2024 - 16:23
      +2

      You can always bring it back to JB if that's the case. You can't do the same if you brought overseas or AliExpress etc. I don't think that should worries you.

      • Iggemo on 20/11/2024 - 18:08

        I'm more worried i buy it, it works fine, i get used to it and then a month down the track it gets blocked or something, i realise i can refund but it's more of a hassle. I really wish i got just buy from AliE and get it for half the price tho !

  • hopper on 20/11/2024 - 14:49

    This deal is nothing

  • Emilimu on 20/11/2024 - 19:20
    +1

    This or the Motorola neo for $350?

    • Dxvitt6666 on 20/11/2024 - 19:35
      +1

      My missus has this. I have neo. We are both happy. Sorry I know that probably doesn't help hahaha

    • ce5himm on 20/11/2024 - 20:14

      I personally like this.

    • heef on 21/11/2024 - 02:44

      I'm more interested in Nothing's software personally.

      Moto's new update promise is yet to be proven but that is a big plus if you don't plan on upgrading for 3+ years.

      Might have better luck getting cases for the nothing? The Moto is very new.

  • OzBargainingPower on 21/11/2024 - 08:51

    Such a dumb name

  • Mugsy on 21/11/2024 - 11:42

    Well, I got this Nothing Phone 2a for Dad as his secondary phone (replacing an Oppo A53s). His main phone is a Samsung A55… I think it's funny that his main phone has arguably the most bloated variant of android on it, and his secondary phone has the least bloated variant after Google's Pixel range.

  • iamnotafish on 21/11/2024 - 17:01

    I bought the phone about 2 weeks ago, 12GB RAM variant. Graphics is constantly laggy compared to my "old" Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G, even with game graphics set at lowest quality. It's not even a FPS, so a bit disappointing that it seems to struggle even with casual, low quality graphics games.

    • Iggemo on 21/11/2024 - 21:01

      Is your Redmi working on any networks here or did the scumbags brick it?

      • iamnotafish on 25/11/2024 - 16:46

        Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G bought from AliExpress 2 years ago is still working, but Redmi Note 13 Pro 5g also bought from AliExpress about 2 months ago (different seller than Note 11) is a brick.

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