- A Nothing boss has announced that there won’t be a new CMF phone this year
- They say the ongoing RAM crisis is to blame
- However, there will be other CMF products and other Nothing phones
The CMF Phone 2 Pro from Nothing combined a distinctive look with a cheap price when it launched last year, but if you’ve been hoping for a CMF Phone 3 Pro this year, you’re out of luck as the company has just confirmed that there will be no new models.
Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis claimed that while the company was previously working on a successor, “with memory prices where they are right now, we can’t build a phone that feels like a real step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF.”
As a result, there won’t be a new CMF phone this year – although he added that other new CMF products are still planned, including “completely new categories”, and also that there will be new phones from Nothing, just without the CMF branding, meaning they’ll presumably be more expensive models.
Many of you have asked when the next CMF phone is coming, and as always, we’d rather be transparent. The 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…19 June 2026
An unsurprising development
This news is not entirely surprising, and indeed it was not long ago that Counterpoint predicted that low-end phones could face a “permanent removal” in some markets.
This is all thanks to rising RAM costs, with AI data centers demanding massive amounts of the stuff, therefore leading to shortages and skyrocketing prices. This, in turn, makes it increasingly difficult for companies to make cheap phones.
So far nothing has announced only that we won’t see a new CMF phone this year, but the company will likely face the same problems next year as well, so don’t be surprised if it’s a long time before we see another CMF handset.
So if you’re hoping to upgrade your phone soon, you might want to be prepared to spend a little more — and look at more premium series like the standard Nothing line.
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