Nothing’s efforts to launch the next-generation CMF Phone has come to nothing. The company has confirmed it has cancelled the CMF Phone 3 Pro due to escalating RAM costs.
In what could be a sign of things to come, the company says the price of memory is making it much harder for manufacturers to launch phones that feel like a significant improvement on current models. Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis says, as a result, there’ll be no new instalment for the budget line this year.
He says in a post on X: “A lot of you have been asking when the next CMF Phone is coming and as always we’d rather be transparent. CMF Phone 2 Pro was a product we were incredibly proud of. It even won Budget Phone of the Year from MKBHD and the response from all of you made it even more special.
“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.”
It’s a credit to the company that it has gone this route rather than, as Evangelidis puts it, “ship something we’re not proud of.” The company does say there are more smartphones coming soon and is promising more information is coming soon.
“That said, there’s still a lot to look forward to from @cmfbynothing for this year. We have several new products launching as well as some entirely new categories. More on that soon!”
The mid-range Nothing Phone (4a) launched this spring and the company has already ruled out a Nothing Phone 4 Pro handset this year. So it’ll be interesting to see what the company is cooking up.
Could this teaser give us a clue?
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