Nothing has dropped a software program replace for the Nothing Telephone (3a) and Nothing Telephone (3a) Professional mid-range smartphones, and it provides the Important Key the flexibility it at all times appeared to have been constructed for… form of.
Within the Nothing Group weblog publish that accompanies the rollout of Nothing OS 3.1, the corporate boasts that “The large information is that Important Key now works inside the Nothing Digicam app”.
So, is that this the replace that turns the Important Key into the digicam shutter we erroneously assumed it to be forward of launch? Not fairly, nevertheless it’s a begin. Allow us to clarify.
Luke Baker
What Nothing OS 3.1 does for the Digicam app
Nothing OS 3.1 doesn’t a lot flip the Important Key right into a digicam shutter button because it does prolong the prevailing Important Area characteristic into the Digicam app.
You’re nonetheless tapping the Important Key to seize what’s on display screen, and holding the button to connect an accompanying voice word. That info continues to be being despatched to the AI-enabled ‘Important Area’ app.
It’s simply that this operate now works inside the dwell Digicam app, capturing no matter’s presently framed inside the viewfinder. This in itself is a robust growth of the Important Area idea, exposing actual world content material alongside all the net content material that it beforehand catalogued.
And, sure, it does technically can help you use the handy Important Key button to take photos, even when it’s nonetheless effectively wanting the complete iPhone 16 Digicam Management remedy.
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What else does Nothing OS 3.1 add?
Other than these helpful new Digicam app Important Key capabilities, Nothing OS 3.1 provides some welcome tweaks and fixes.
The digicam app has been improved, making the zoom operation extra intuitive, correcting selfies, bettering white stability on indoors scenes, and clearing up backlit portraits.
For the Nothing Telephone (3a) Professional particularly, Nothing has improved focus accuracy at 2x.
Once I used the Nothing Telephone (3a) Professional, I discovered the digicam app to be considerably sluggish. Fortunately, Nothing seems to have addressed that with “Quicker general digicam efficiency and responsiveness”. I’ve solely spent a few minutes with the replace, nevertheless it definitely appears to be a smoother digicam expertise at first look.
Away from the digicam, Nothing has optimised Important Area, improved the AOD animations, and carried out the final bug fixing go you’d count on of any firmware replace.
Nothing OS 3.1 is out there to obtain for the Nothing Telephone (3a) and (3a) Professional proper now.