Nothing Phone 3a - Amazing Gaming Performance (Tips + Tricks)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So I'm

going to do some gaming testing on the

Nothing Phone 3a, and I've got Call of

Duty Mobile on the phone at

the moment. Let's see how the game plays

and see if it's any good. So I'm going to

go custom loadout number 1. Oh God, it's

doing that— I thought it was doing that

thing where I move the screen. Move the

whole phone and it aims, which is rubbish.

So yeah, it seems, um,

not great.

Oh my God, where's the shoot button? I

can't— where's the shoot button? I can't

even see where the shoot button is. The

hell? Zoom in a bit.

Okay, so where's the,

um, okay, so where's the shoot button?

First of all, that's the aim button.

There's no shoot button. What?

All I can do is aim.

Auto fire disabled.

Maybe I pressed the screen. Oh my God, I

can't even shoot because there's no shoot

button. Let me try and figure this out.

Uh, okay, somehow it had auto fire enabled

but it wasn't even firing. So now I've got

shoot— shoot button is back,

but why have I only got a pistol and a

knife? Where's the reload button? Okay,

okay, this is some serious gaming. Oh my

God, I mean, the performance doesn't seem

too bad because you've got this gaming

mode thing here. It says game mode, so

you've got performance mode. I can't even

move. And it's not terrible because

I did some performance tests with this

phone and yeah, I got one shot

at least. I did some performance tests and

the benchmark results weren't great for

this game. I mean, for this phone. So I

was thinking maybe gaming is not— I can't—

every time I press the fucking shoot

button, it just keeps aiming.

Look. Oh, I got a headshot.

Oh, I guess you hold it down. I want a

gun, not a pistol.

So it looks like— oh, there is a

shoot button on this side.

I don't know if I can say this is better

performance than the iPhone 12 Mini.

It's not, it's not terrible, I guess.

I mean, it's playable.

So I've got an Xbox controller. I want to

see if it works. Um, so the controller's

connected and it works because I'm moving

the icons with my control pad, but when I

go into the game It

doesn't seem to do anything.

I don't understand. It's got like that

control pad icon,

but I can't actually move.

I don't understand why. Maybe you've got

to start a new game or something. Oh no,

it's working. No, the controller.

Hold on, I got a controller. Oh wow,

oh wow, it's actually really good.

Oh my God, I'm still getting killed

though. Look, I got the controller now.

Um. Yeah, it plays just

like a console game now.

I missed every shot. I wonder if

you can play with keyboard and mouse.

It's still a bit laggy though, the frame

rate. The frame rate is not great.

This phone is definitely not, not the high

end. Look at the lag.

Yeah, if you want to game, I would not

recommend this phone. Maybe just simple

games, because I mean, this is pretty good

with the controller. It feels good and

everything, but the phone is lagging. Now

I can feel definitely you feeling the

frame drops here.

I'm out of bullets. Oh my God,

I still got a kill. God, it's lagging

so much.

Maybe I can put the graphics down more.

Yeah, I might be able to put the— where is

it? Graphics.

Oh God, why does it exit the menu when you

Settings, graphics,

visual quality. What? I can't—

it seems like I can't change the graphics

whilst I'm in the game.

The graphics are on high.

Let me exit the game, put the graphics

down.

Yeah, so why temperature

and battery, smoother gameplay, higher

graphic details? I put it on smoother

gameplay and

then what? Or custom, very low, low, low,

low, low FPS target, high. Yeah, so

everything's on low now.

See if it's any better.

Play. Yeah, it was quite good actually

with the controller. The controller really

does its job. Okay, so it's on low

graphics now. See if it's any better.

It feels a bit better.

Yeah, she feels a lot better now,

a lot smoother. Oh, come on. I'm trying

to get a better viewpoint. Like that,

maybe that's better. Okay,

yeah, actually it feels pretty

good to play,

very smooth, definitely playable.

Yeah, this is not bad actually. I think

you definitely could sink a couple of

hours into this if you have nothing else

Oh, ran out of bullets.

I still don't see the point of this

though. Like, if you want to do some

gaming, just Play on your

computer. It is impressive though how

far mobile gaming has come.

This is like PlayStation 2 quality.

I just killed 2 of them.

Yeah, this is definitely way better now.

Oh,

I just heard

a shizer. Oh, I got him!

Oh, I got him too!

This is actually kind of crazy. I'm

playing this on a phone that's only £300,

and it's not like an iPhone 16

or anything.

Yeah, this is pretty good. I mean, really

complain. I'm actually enjoying

this and I'm not just ending it now I have

enough footage.

Oh, I got him with the pistol!

This is actually pretty fun. This is

actually fun.

I got an Xbox controller. Look at my Xbox

controller destroying these noobs.

Some German guy in the voice chat.

But anyway, I'm gonna play this other

game, Diablo Immortal. Okay, so we've got

Diablo or Diablo Immortal loaded up on the

mobile. And I've got my Xbox controller,

so see if this is any good. It should be

way less intensive. How do you do— oh, B

to attack. Yeah, it feels

pretty good actually.

You definitely want to get one of those

brace things that hold the phone, or maybe

get like a, like a phone gamepad like the

Backbone. Sorry, Backbone. And then this

could be a pretty good gaming device.

This is pretty fun actually. It feels very

smooth. It's actually, um, quite

impressive considering that this GPU is

compared to my— according to my benchmark

comparisons, this GPU

kind of sucks, but this is handling the

game pretty well. You could definitely

play games like this, no problems,

very smooth.

So yeah, just because it's a budget phone,

mid-range specs, that gets outperformed by

phones, flagship phones that are 5 years

old, um, don't think that you can't game

on it. Definitely gameable.

I just don't think I would use it for

gaming because I've got a gaming laptop.

If I just wanted to game, I'll just use my

gaming laptop, I guess. But maybe if

you're on the bus or you're in an airport—

I just, I don't know, when I'm traveling

in an airport and I've got to catch a

plane, I'm just too stressed and tired to

want to game. When you're stressed and

tired, I don't want to game. I just want

to shut my eyes. I just want to shut

my eyes and black out and then wake up

when everything is over. Really not in the

mood for gaming when I'm traveling. Yeah,

this is pretty good. I could definitely

play this. Frame rate seems pretty smooth

as well. Graphics look decent. Yeah, not

bad as a little gaming device. Can't knock