Nothing Phone 3a's Essential Space Reportedly Has a Monthly Processing Limit v5e25 Technology News

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Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 8 April 2025 10:26 IST

Nothing Phone 3a's Essential Space Reportedly Has a Monthly Processing Limit

Essential Space is activated via a dedicated key placed on the Nothing Phone 3a series' right spine 5f575j

Highlights

s discover a monthly processing limit on Phone 3a's Essential Space
The feature is used to quickly store screenshots and other data
A teardown reportedly reveals plans for AI credits and free trials

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Nothing Phone 3a series launched last month and one of its standout features was Essential Space. Activated via the new dedicated Essential Key, it acts as a one-stop solution to gather all sorts of data such as screenshots, photos, and voice notes, and recall them using AI. While this feature was a nifty addition which was appreciated by s, a social media post suggests that some of them are running into monthly processing limits for the feature.

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@AlphaDaemon1999 expressed their frustration over the discovery of the monthly processing limit on a post on Reddit. The post says that the used the feature as intended; to save content ideas, set reminders, and track their daily expenses, before they hit the limit. The emphasised that they read through all of the and conditions but did not find a reference to the maximum processing cap anywhere.

What the heck? It doesn't mention anywhere about a usage limit!
byu/AlphaDaemon1999 inNothingTech

Other s also expressed their disappointment over this development, especially since it is a hardware inclusion and one of the most d features of the Nothing Phone 3a series. One commented, “Never expected this. That's the USP of the product. When they have a cap on the USP, then there's no point in advertising as a unique feature.”

The monthly processing limit on the Essential Space suggests that the company could introduce a paid subscription for offering unlimited usage. However, this is not the first time that this has been hinted towards.

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Following a teardown of the latest version of the Essential Space app, Android Authority discovered multiple strings that referenced "free trial" and "AI credits". The former suggests that s may be able to try out certain Essential Space features before a subscription fee is required, while the latter indicates that they would be able to spend money on credits to access certain AI features.

One of the strings read "start 1 year free trial", which suggests that the British OEM could offer a one year free subscription to the AI space before charging s for it.

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REVIEW
KEY SPECS
NEWS

Design
Display
Software
Performance
Battery Life
Camera
Value for Money

Good
Sharp 120Hz display
Fun and engaging software
Variety of cameras
Good daylight cameras
Good battery life

Bad
Low light video needs work
IP rating could have been better
Does not HDR10+ video streaming

Read detailed Nothing Phone 3a review

Display 6.77-inch

Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3

Front Camera 32-megapixel

Rear Camera 50-megapixel + 50-megapixel + 8-megapixel

RAM 8GB

Storage 128GB, 256GB

Battery Capacity 5000mAh

OS Android 15

Resolution 1080x2392 pixels

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KEY SPECS
NEWS

Display 6.70-inch

Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3

Front Camera 50-megapixel

Rear Camera 50-megapixel + 50-megapixel + 8-megapixel

RAM 8GB, 12GB

Storage 128GB, 256GB

Battery Capacity 5000mAh

OS Android 15

Resolution 1080x2392 pixels

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