othing has teased its second telephone, the follow-up to the Nothing Cellphone (1).
It’s referred to as the — no prizes for guessing this one — Nothing Cellphone (2). Nothing introduced the telephone alongside one phrase, “Premium”, on Twitter.
This means it could price greater than the £399 Nothing Cellphone (1), which mixed strong mid-range options and a pretty value.
Nothing says the telephone is coming in “Summer season 2023”. A follow-up tweet from Nothing CEO Carl Pei suggests the telephone will launch within the US.
Whereas the Nothing Cellphone (1) got here to the UK in July 2022, it didn’t launch within the US till January 2023.
Nothing has relied pretty closely on viral advertising, and this newest launch is accompanied by a sometimes head-scratching tease.
A 3-second video exhibits what we assume to be the again of the telephone, which is residence to a blinking pink LED.
Nothing web site’s sign-up web page for individuals who wish to know extra concerning the Nothing Cellphone (2) affords a wider crop of this view, revealing a slider management. As soon as once more, this have to be a part of the telephone’s again cowl.
Nothing Cellphone (2) versus Cellphone (1)
The Nothing Cellphone (1)
/ NothingAt this level, we will solely guess what the brand new telephone’s options are, however such posts are much like these used to generate hype for the Nothing Cellphone (1) and its partly clear, LED-laden rear.
The Nothing Cellphone (2)’s pink LED could also be a notification indicator and, extrapolating past what we see right here, might even be a multi-colour LED that may use totally different shades to indicate various kinds of notification.
The telephone’s rear slider is similar to that seen in OnePlus telephones, the place it’s used to modify between regular and silent/don’t disturb modes. As ever, Nothing’s advertising fashion invitations hypothesis.
Nothing is a relative of OnePlus. Its CEO, Carl Pei, was a OnePlus co-founder, and served as its director and the general public face of the corporate till he left in 2020 to kind Nothing.
In December 2022, Nothing introduced it had bought 1,000,000 Cellphone (1) handsets, lower than six months after its launch in July.
