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TL;DR
- Final month Nothing CEO Carl Pei teased what seemed like a $1,000 base worth for the Nothing Cellphone 3.
- A brand new leak now claims pricing will begin at simply $800 within the US.
- We additionally get some information on the Nothing Headphones 1, which may land in late September for $300.
What’s the following huge Android smartphone launch you’re wanting ahead to? Google’s Pixel 10 collection is on our radar this summer time, as are Samsung’s next-gen foldables, however the first headline-grabbing telephone to land would possibly simply be the Nothing Cellphone 3. The corporate’s been teasing a newly glyph-less Cellphone 3 for launch this July, and now a brand new rumor makes an attempt to handle one of many larger questions surrounding the way it would possibly arrive.
Final month introduced us tons of Android information, each from Google I/O and the inaugural Android Present. Nothing CEO Carl Pei contributed a video message to the latter, the place he hinted at what seemed like a giant shake-up to Nothing Cellphone pricing. In keeping with Pei, the Cellphone 3 would promote for £800, or over $1,000. Contemplating that the Cellphone 2 began at simply $600 within the US, this made it really feel like Nothing was going after one other class of telephone customers solely, making a transfer on bigger-name flagships.
That will not be the case ultimately, although. Over on Blue Sky, famous leaker Roland Quandt asserts that the bottom stage Nothing Cellphone 3 will promote for just below $800 within the US. Whereas that also represents a good worth hike, it’s additionally one which’s way more measured than we feared. That type of cash would get you the Cellphone 3 in its 12GB RAM, 256GB storage configuration; for extra like $900, you would improve to 16GB reminiscence and 512GB storage. Contemplating {that a} totally tricked-out Cellphone 2 would go for almost $800, that’s once more a worth enhance that doesn’t really feel significantly egregious.
It’s not simply the Cellphone 3 on our radar, although, and we’ve additionally been anticipating to get our arms on an all-new providing from the corporate, within the type of its first set of cans: a pair of over-ear headphones. We’ve been digging Nothing’s earbud choices for years now, so this pair has quite a bit to dwell as much as. Thus far particulars have been fairly mild, however now Arsène Lupin posts a teaser to X, claiming that Nothing is concentrating on a September 30 launch for these “Headphones 1.” We might get our selection of both black or white colorways, and pricing is tipped to return in just below $300.
That might put the Headphones 1 in a reasonably aggressive worth bracket, the place they’ll be going through off in opposition to some rather more established manufacturers. We will’t wait to listen to how they stack up!
