The Glastonbury 2025 app includes this one gamechanging new feature
You're now able to live share your location with your friends, which is a huge improvement. OK, so apps like Apple's FindMy can do that already of course, but speaking from experience this is going to be very useful to be able to do this across friend groups when you split off to see different bands and other acts.
And in particular it's going to be handy to work out where people are within a crowd in a situation where 'we're by the bar at the left of the stage' won't quite cut it.
Another new feature is step count tracking which will be part of the 'My Highlights' post-Festival wrap, so you'll be able to compare to see who covered the most ground around the site. Vodafone is also making donations to its Everyone.Connected campaign depending on how many steps festival goers do.
As before the app includes a customisable festival lineup so you can create your own schedule of acts to see and you'll get reminders before the various sets begin if you add an artist. There's also an interactive map so you can get to all the stages over the vast site that straddles Worthy Farm. This is now fully searchable, so you can find everything from water and the nearest toilets to different types of food on site.
Naturally, you can also search for artists to find out when they're playing as well as browse an A-Z of them, too. And you can toggle between a timeline as well as a list view.
Features including Spotify integration, shareable Line-Ups, and map pinning also return to help you make the most of the festival and find your tent/car. In an update, Shared Line-ups will now automatically update, so your friends will see the latest version.
You can also get directions to Vodafone's Connect and Charge tent so you can keep your device juiced up. Speaking of power, Vodafone also has a plan there, too – you can pay £20 (plus £10 deposit) for a battery pack that you can exchange daily for a new one at three locations – the Connect and Charge tent in the Leftfield market as well as opposite San Remo and in the Worthy View Campsite.
Vodafone says last year's version of the app saw 226,215 total downloads. 88.9% of downloads were from festival-goers attending Worthy Farm, while 11.1% were from people viewing at home. Data consumption at the festival hit over 225 terabytes last year.
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Design & build: the Marmite mobile There's no mistaking Phone 3 for anything but a Nothing creation. The glyph lights might've gone, but the semi-seethrough rear panel remains, in your choice of black or white colours. The lines are more angular and grid-like this time around, except only two of the three rear snappers are aligned to it. The asymmetric telephoto lens feels deliberately provocative, and almost certain to put some potential buyers off. They don't stick out nearly as far as the Nothing Phone 3a Pro's chunky camera island, at least. It's the circular glyph matrix panel that takes pride of place, with white LEDs that flash up app notifications when the phone is placed screen-down. Press the touch-sensitive dot built into the rear casing and it can cycle through countdown timers, remaining battery life and the current time, act as a pixellated selfie camera viewfinder (though there's no way to capture photos in this style), and play a handful of micro-games. That these include spin the bottle should give a clue as to who Nothing is aiming Phone 3 at. A software development kit arrived for community developers when the phone was first unveiled, so I'm betting it won't be too long before there are a bunch of third-party tools and functions to download. The firm also has an update in the works that'll let you assign glyph mirror portraits to your contacts for person-specific call notifications. A long-press will then show the contact name or number. It's a fun addition, and far more functional than the old glyph lights were, but I don't think it has quite the same personality. Asus already puts a similar dot matrix screen on its ROG Phones, so it's not like this is a truly unique feature – however well implemented it might be. The rest of the phone is more in keeping with Nothing's older models, with a flat mid-frame made from recycled aluminium and flat front and rear glass. It's practically the smartphone norm at this point, but that dramatically styled back panel helps the Phone 3 avoid accusations it's merely copying Apple's design beats. The screen bezel is suitably skinny and at 9mm thick there's plenty of purchase at the sides. My biggest issue is the button placement; the left side volume keys are in line with the power and Essential key on the right, so I was constantly taking screenshots by mistake when unlocking the phone. The Essential key doesn't feel different enough from the power button, either, which led to a few accidental activations. Gorilla Glass 7i covers the screen and there's Victus glass around the back, so it should survive small drops and scrapes without any battle scars. IP68 dust and water resistance is also reassuring, if not quite on the level of flagship rivals that have even hardier IP69 ratings. The phone has stayed pristine throughout my week of testing. Screen & sound: clear vision Nothing resisted the urge to go big with with the Phone 3's screen, settling on a relatively palm-friendly 6.67in. Still substantially more than the vanilla Galaxy S25 or Pixel 9, sure, but more compact than the OnePlus 13. It's an AMOLED, of course (because no self-respecting flagship uses LCD these days) and a flexible one at that – necessary to make the outer bezels so slim, not because it curves or folds in any way. The 2800×1260 resolution looks plenty sharp form arms' length, for lots of resolvable detail in images and crisp text. It also won't work the graphics chip quite as hard as some flagship rivals with even more pixels. Colours are rich and vibrant, without straying too far into unnatural territory using the default Alive picture preset. A Standard settings dials things down if you prefer more subdued hues. There's HDR10+ support, so compatible content is able to really ramp up the brightness; Nothing says the Phone 3 can manage a peak 4500 nits. The High Brightness Mode HBM) tops out at a more realistic 1600 nits, which while less than the best smartphones can manage, is still just fine for outdoor visibility. I had no trouble seeing what was onscreen, even on the sunniest of days. Because Nothing has steered clear of expensive LTPO tech, the screen's dynamic refresh rate flits between 30 and 120Hz. Being able to drop to 1Hz for static content like the always-on display mode would've reduced battery drain, but because the glyph matrix encourages you to put the phone screen side down, I've had less reason to use it. The dynamic switching is fast enough to react to swipes and scrolls, so there wasn't much need to force it to 120Hz full-time. The stereo speakers are a fine match to the screen, with more than enough volume on tap from the earpiece tweeter and down-firing main driver. It's treble-heavy, but not so much it gets peaky or shrill when you crank things up. Cameras: a clearer picture If the Phone 3a Pro set Nothing's photography bar earlier in 2025, now the Phone 3's trio of 50MP rear snappers has to raise it. The firm hasn't gone crazy on sensor size, but the hardware compares favourably with Google, Samsung and Apple's similarly-priced alternatives. You get an optically stabilised lead lens with an f/1.68 aperture, paired to an ultrawide with a generous 114-degree field of view. The questionably positioned periscope telephoto also has OIS and is good for 3x optical zoom. Macro focusing lets it get as close as 10cm from your subject for sharp close-up shots, and it promises to deliver 60x super res shots using AI upscaling – though in my experience image quality falls a long way short of rivals here, and isn't that much different from the cheaper 3a Pro. Better to stick to 6x snaps, which are far more competitive. 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Not in good light, no – but Phone 3 still compares favourably to rivals within its price bracket here. Low light is where Nothing's cameras struggle to match the best sub-$1000 phones. Static subjects are absolutely fine, with convincing colours, well-controlled noise and contrast that maintains plenty of shadow detail. As soon as you introduce motion, however, things get blurrier. Crisply capturing the crowd at an evening concert proved a challenge. Google's Night Sight processing keeps its edge here. I'd take more noise if it meant sharper shots – maybe Nothing can tweak things with a software update later down the line. As it stands, this is a perfectly capable high-end cameraphone – just one that doesn't compete for class honors. Software experience: where it all comes together Nothing's monochrome, widget-filled operating system continues to be one of my favourite takes on Android. 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