Nothing Phone (4b) will expand the range to budget – we’ll need it, the way these price hikes are going
Nothing will unveil the Phone (4b) next month. The first in a new range sitting below the mid-range 'a' series.
Nothing has confirmed it plans to announce the first in its ‘b’ series of phones, with the Nothing Phone (4b) set to debut on July 7.
Nothing has explained, that the ‘b’ will sit below the ‘b’, which sits below the unlettered Nothing Phone flagship models. So, think A = affordable and B = budget, perhaps? If you’re not into the whole brevity thing, here’s co-founder Akis Evendelidis with a lot of words to say ‘we’re making cheap phones now lads’.
Essentially, we’re looking at an entry-level phone here that looks like the 4a and maintains the light-up Glyph bar which has become the manufacturer’s calling card. Nothing is previewing the design in the video below and, as Engadget points out, the Glyph bar – which offers customisable lighting effects to signify different types of alerts – has five bars rather than the seven on the Nothing Phone (4a).
Nothing isn’t revealing anything about the specs yet, but the phone does appear to have made an appearance on the Geekbench benchmarking website. That listing reveals a Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 chip and 8GB of RAM.
The teaser comes just days after Nothing confirmed it would not launch a sequel to its CMF Phone 3 Pro. The company said it was cancelling the planned launch of the CMF Phone 4 Pro due to escalating RAM costs.
The co-founder said: “We were working on a successor but with memory prices where they are right now, we can’t build a phone that feels like a genuine step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF. As a result, we’ve decided not to launch a new CMF phone this year.”
Budget phones for all!
Chris Smith
