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Nothing
The $499 phone to beat
iPhone 16 Pro Max
iPhone 16 Pro Max
iPhone 16 Pro Max
A titanium frame with a microblasted finish and Ceramic Shield, now with a bigger 6.9-inch screen achieved mostly by trimming bezels — it's only ~1mm wider than the 15 Pro Max but very large.
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Nothing Phone (4a) Pro
Nothing Phone (4a) Pro
Nothing Phone (4a) Pro
The defining change this generation: a metal unibody that ditches the transparent back for a minimal lower half and a distinctive rectangular camera island, topped by a slimmed-down Glyph Matrix. Reviewers overwhelmingly call it the slimmest, most premium Nothing ever — but the redesign is genuinely polarising, and the IP65 rating is one notch below the flagship norm.
iPhone 16 Pro Max
A 6.9-inch LTPO OLED with 120Hz ProMotion and ~2,000-nit peak — bigger and excellent, though later models pushed brightness much higher.
Nothing Phone (4a) Pro
A 6.83-inch 1.5K AMOLED at 144Hz with 2,160Hz PWM dimming — reviewers agree it's the best screen Nothing has built, with realistic outdoor brightness around 1,600 nits. The headline 5,000-nit peak, though, only materialises with special HDR test files; everyday brightness is far lower.
iPhone 16 Pro Max
The headline strength: a ~4,685mAh battery delivering the best flagship endurance reviewers had measured — undercut by slow charging.
Nothing Phone (4a) Pro
The ~5,080mAh cell reliably gets through a day and endurance improved across all of GSMArena's tests versus the 3a Pro — but it's only an 80mAh bump over last year and looks small next to 6,000–7,000mAh budget rivals. 50W wired charging is the trade-off win; there is no wireless charging at all.