Nothing Teases US Launch of 'Premium' Phone (2) in 2023 - PCMag

The Nothing Phone (1) yet made its mode to the US precocious arsenic portion of a $299 constricted beta program, but Carl Pei, Nothing CEO and co-founder, confirms successful an interrogation with Inverse(Opens successful a caller window) that the Nothing Phone (2) volition motorboat successful the US aboriginal this year.

"We decided to marque the US our fig 1 precedence successful presumption of markets," Pei said.

As for wherefore it took truthful agelong to deed the US, Pei confirmed that arsenic a young company—its archetypal product, the Ear(1) launched successful July 2021—"our hands were tied gathering the squad arsenic we were gathering the products. Now arsenic we're connected a much coagulated footing, we tin instrumentality a measurement forward."

Pei reiterated that 1 large impediment to launching a telephone successful the US is our carrier-based system. "When you marque a smartphone for the US you request to enactment with the carriers connected certification and adapting immoderate of their features into your OS," helium said. "We didn't person the resources for that earlier and present we do."

It doesn't dependable similar the Phone (2) volition rival Samsung oregon Apple successful presumption of specs, adjacent though the institution considers it a flagship internally. In our review, we recovered the Phone (1) sports a "simple, elegant bundle and a wholly unsocial illuminated back, but it's not a show leader."

Still, Pei insists the Phone (1) is simply a flagship "in presumption of the magnitude of attraction we enactment into the product." The Phone (2) volition beryllium a "premium" handset, "which signifies that it’s a much premium measurement up, but it's inactive a flagship conscionable similar the Phone (1)," helium said.

While that sounds vague, it does connote that the powerfulness level of the Phone (2) volition beryllium successful a akin scope to that of the Phone (1).

While not overmuch other was revealed astir the phone, we tin presume it'll travel the transparent designs of erstwhile Nothing hardware, though we'll person to hold until the institution has much to amusement earlier we tin cognize for sure. At slightest we cognize it's coming successful precocious 2023, truthful we won't person to hold excessively agelong to get our hands connected the instrumentality and spot if it's a worthy rival to the wealthiness of incredible smartphones connected the market.