Hands-on: Nothing Ear (3) with upgraded ANC and microphones makes its way to Singapore

Nothing Ear (3) also sees the return of its Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), which is further fine-tuned to pick up on your surroundings every 600ms (0.6 seconds) and check itself for fit-related leakage every 1,875ms (1.875 seconds). The ANC can cut out up to 45dB of environmental noise too, which ensures that the audio quality you hear is minimally polluted by your environment. Nothing calls this instantaneous technology Real-Time Adaptive Nose Cancellation.

The Nothing Ear (3) itself has 12mm drivers, a patterned diaphragm, and a 20% larger radiating area, all of which contribute to boosting its bass frequencies by 4 to 6dB and treble by 4dB. In our demo experience, the earbuds seemed to play well with bass-boosted tracks, and the soundstage felt wide for in-ear buds, even if it lacked some clarity in higher frequencies.

The charging case itself is made from 100% recycled aluminium, integrating nano-injection moulding to fuse its clear plastic viewing window with its unibody case.

These earbuds grant 10 hours of listening without ANC (per Nothing’s claims), with a total of 38 hours if you include the charge found inside the holding case.

Returning is LDAC codec support via Bluetooth 5.4, which lowers end-to-end latency delay to less than 120ms. While Nothing would rather you buy its phones, these Ear (3) buds can still work with Android’s Google Fast pair, Window’s Microsoft Swift pair, and iOS devices. You do, however, get direct access to ChatGPT if you have Nothing OS and Essential Space.

Both buds and case are IP54-rated against water and dust.

Singapore pricing and availability

For a limited time only, the Nothing Ear (3) retails at S$239, which includes a simple free gift (a plastic clear holding pouch).

The official retail price is S$259. You can either buy it from the official Nothing online store or visit its pop-up counter at Bugis Junction (outside of the Levi’s store) to test out the earbuds first.