What you want to know
- Nothing Cellphone 3 will apparently not include the corporate’s signature Glyph lights.
- The corporate took to X to substantiate that it has “killed the Glyph Interface,” sharing a video of the Cellphone 1’s tail lamps type of fading away, within the X publish.
- Hypothesis factors to a brand new interactive dot-matrix show on the rear, hinted at by earlier Cellphone 3 teasers.
Nothing has been dropping several hints on X about its upcoming flagship Nothing Cellphone 3. In its most up-to-date publish, it recommended that its subsequent flagship won’t have the signature Glyph Gentle interface, or extra generally often known as the rear panel lights.
In an nearly easy publish, the corporate introduced the tip of the Glyph Interface in an X video, captioned “we killed the Glyph Interface,” the place the Phone 1‘s lights dramatically blink out to black.
This might doubtlessly imply that its subsequent flagship machine, Nothing Cellphone 3 might not present up with these rear mild, a function that drew a number of folks to purchase the Nothing telephones within the first place. The lights gave Nothing telephones a extra interactive aspect, which different main flagships did not have.
We killed the Glyph Interface. pic.twitter.com/wlLHNzzc72May 29, 2025
Whereas being aesthetically pleasing, these lights had their very own set of performance as nicely. The most well-liked ones are its use with notifications — customers might assign customized Glyph patterns and sounds to totally different contacts or app notifications when the telephone is in “Flip to Glyph” (face-down) mode. These lights can even function a timer, charging indicator, and backfill lights whereas capturing photographs or movies.
That mentioned, if the corporate takes away the one factor that units it aside, what would its rear panel really appear to be? Some speculate that the telephone might include a “dot-matrix show” on the again. The teasers of Cellphone 3 had movies that includes the identical dot-matrix sample, displaying a pixelated “3” or Pac-Man-style animations with dots, majorly hinting at a change in visible design.
Nonetheless, these are nonetheless speculations, and it stays unclear what Nothing plans on changing the Glyph lights interface with. Nonetheless, we’re hoping it is going to be one thing rather more interactive, providing extra utility than simply plain mild strips. The wait to see what’s coming will not be lengthy, although, because the Nothing Cellphone 3 is about to launch in July.
Cellphone (3). It is a magic quantity. Coming July 2025. pic.twitter.com/WEQ7Vcf72HMay 20, 2025
