- Nothing has 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 published on July 7
Something strange is going on 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 teaser for the first in a new line of phones, called the Nothing Phone (4b). And there are reasons to believe 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 various possible designs, which doesn’t really give much away. But it also says that we will learn more on July 7 at 11.00am BST, which is 3am PT / 6am ET / 8pm AEST.
However, we already know a little more that Nothing’s co-founder Akis Evangelidis has explained at X that “the B Series builds on the success of the A Series 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 below our flagship products that do not carry a letter designation.” It’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 canceled CMF Phone 3 Pro.
Telephone (4b). Kept sketching the Phone (4a) series and accidentally made a new phone.7. July at 11:00am BST. pic.twitter.com/kQjb76174h23 June 2026
A CMF phone at a higher price?
So why should 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 ongoing RAM crisis, which has meant “we can’t build a phone that feels like a real step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF.”
What they might be able to do, though, is sell that phone at a price that makes sense for the more premium Nothing brand. So in other words, there’s a chance this is the CMF Phone 3 Pro, just at a higher price than nothing could get away with while using CMF branding.
Of course, this is only speculation. It’s entirely possible that along with the budget CMF Phone 3 Pro, nothing also worked on the budget phone (4a) and that it happened to tease the latter a few days after canceling the former. But the timing seems odd.
We’ll probably never know for sure if this was originally designed as a CMF model or not, but we should at least learn more about the specs, features, and perhaps pricing of this phone very soon.
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