Less than a week after making its restricted premiere at the company’s MWC after party, the much-teased and frequently leaked Nothing Phone (2a) is now formally official. With a starting price of $349, Nothing’s third phone is the first to target the mid-tier/budget market directly.

Preorders are now available, but there’s a big catch in the US. Right now, developers who want to include third-party apps with the glowing “Glyphs” on the back of the phone can only get the phone here.

“The Glyph Developer Kit for Nothing devices is here,” Nothing writes of the program. “Your opportunity to build your own integration with the Glyph Interface. You can start developing it and register for an API key starting March 5, 2024.”

However, the device will be accessible in India and the United Kingdom via more conventional channels. It costs £319 in the home market of the London-based company for the 8GB/128GB variant and £319 for the 12GB/256GB model. Those versions cost ₹23,999 and ₹27,099 in India, respectively. Cheap phones have a lot of competition in the world’s largest smartphone market. For ₹25,999, there will only be one launch market where a third configuration—12GB/256GB—will be available.

Instead of using the Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs seen in the more expensive variants, the phone uses a modified MediaTek Dimensity 7200 Pro processor. Says Nothing

By working together, Nothing and MediaTek have been able to lower the power consumption of some components by up to 10% and offer optimizations like Smart Clean (+200% UFS read/write speed over prolonged usage) and Adaptive NTFS (+100% file transfer rates with Windows computers).

Naturally, the performance will be less than that of the flagship Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 in the Nothing Phone (2) (but in some scenarios, you might observe an increase in speed from the Phone (1)). The 50-megapixel dual rear-facing cameras of the (2) are retained in the (2a), although they are moved to the center-back. The rear of the phone bears similarities to its predecessors, including the recognizable translucent design and the three light-up Glyphs (which are now only visible on the top).

The battery is bigger at 5,000 mAh than the ones in the Phone (1) (4,500 mAh) and Phone (2) (4,700 mAh). The 6.7-inch screen and 120Hz refresh rate of the more expensive phone are retained in the (2a).

Overall, considering its price range, it appears to be a good phone. However, considering how many flagships have price tags that exceed $1,000, the $639 Nothing Phone (2) is unquestionably in the middle of the pack.