- Nothing just revealed its biggest Phone (4b) teaser yet
- It’s a lower-end alternative to the Nothing Phone (4a), which makes us wonder if it was originally planned to be a CMF model.
- It will be announced on July 7.
Something strange is happening at Nothing: just a few days ago the company announced that there would be no new CMF phones this year, but now it’s back with a preview of the first in a new line of phones, called the Nothing Phone (4b). And there are reasons to think that this is the CMF Phone 3 Pro in all but name.
The main teaser for the Nothing Phone (4b) comes from Nothing’s official X account and includes sketches of several possible designs, so it doesn’t really reveal much. But it also says we’ll learn more on July 7 at 11am BST, which is 3am PT / 6am ET / 8pm AEST.
However, we already know a little more, as Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis has said. explained in X that “Series B builds on Series A’s success by expanding into a new segment, while maintaining a clear product hierarchy.”
More tellingly, they added that “the A Series remains our most premium line beneath our flagship products, which do not carry a letter designation.” That’s a roundabout way of saying that the Nothing Phone (4b) will be lower-end than the Nothing Phone (4a), and you know what else would have been lower-end? The CMF Phone 3 Pro canceled.
Telephone (4b). I kept drawing the Telephone series (4a) and accidentally made a new telephone. July 7, 11:00 BST. pic.twitter.com/kQjb76174hJune 23, 2026
A CMF phone at a higher price?
So why would Nothing repackage the CMF Phone 3 Pro as the Phone (4b)? Well, Nothing has said that we won’t see any new CMF phones this year thanks to the current RAM crisis, which has meant that “we can’t build a phone that feels like a real step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF.”
What they could do, however, is sell that phone at a price that makes sense for the more premium Nothing brand. In other words, there’s a chance this could be the CMF Phone 3 Pro, just at a higher price than Nothing could get away with using the CMF brand.
Of course, that’s just speculation. It’s entirely possible that along with the budget CMF Phone 3 Pro, Nothing was also working on the budget Phone (4a), and simply mocked the latter within days of canceling the former. But the timing seems strange.
We’ll probably never know for sure whether this was originally designed as a CMF model or not, but we should at least learn more about the specs, features, and perhaps price of this phone very soon.
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