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

While it has been a little more than two years since the release of its previous noise-cancelling in-ears, the Nothing 2025 flagship true wireless earbuds, the Nothing Ear (3), have finally arrived in Singapore. We almost thought there was Nothing to see here, until now.

Nothing Ear (3) features

First announced in mid-September 2025, the Nothing Ear (3) returns with upgrades in its acoustics, metallic design, and microphone functionality.

Starting from its charging case, the Nothing Ear (3) packs a new Super Mic tool, designed for users who want enhanced filtering and noise-cutting capabilities to deliver a clear voice message. With the case held towards your mouth and its TALK button held down, it starts up the two microphones to focus on your voice. 

It goes beyond its earbuds’ built-in mics by making the casing ones capable of cutting out interfering, surrounding noise of up to 95dB. On a supported instant messaging app, the TALK button can also act as a trigger for voice messages or voice notes. It also syncs with Essential Space’s voice notes feature, if you happen to have a Nothing Phone.

The three-directional microphones in the earbuds themselves are also paired with a new bone-conducting voice pickup unit (VPU), which converts more of your voice into audio signals by picking up the vibrations coming from your jaw and ear canal. This combo cancels up to 25dB of noise.

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.