{"id":258360,"date":"2026-01-29T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258360\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:59:08","slug":"nothing-will-not-release-a-new-flagship-phone-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258360\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Will Not Release a New Flagship Phone in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing announced in a video<\/a> Thursday that the company has no plans to release a new flagship phone in 2026 and will keep the $799\u00a0Nothing Phone 3<\/a>\u00a0as the brand’s higher-end option. <\/p>\n

Nothing has done this before — last year’s Nothing Phone 3 was a follow-up to 2023’s Nothing Phone 2<\/a>. And in the announcement, the company quickly clarified that a lower-cost Nothing Phone 4A is in the works, which makes sense as Nothing did release the $349 Nothing Phone 2A<\/a> and $379 3A<\/a> in 2024 and early 2025, respectively. The company also released phones in its CMF line, which has since been spun off into its own company<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the announcement, Nothing CEO Carl Pei said there wasn’t a need to put out a new flagship every year. <\/p>\n

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Watch this: Nothing Phone 3: Still Quirky, But Can It Beat Pixel & iPhone?\n <\/p>\n

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“We’re not just going to churn out a new flagship every year. We want every upgrade to feel significant,” Pei said in the statement. <\/p>\n

In addition to a Nothing Phone 4A, the company also teased plans to release more over-ear headphones following last year’s $299 Nothing Headphone (1)<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nothing’s announcement that it won’t be releasing a flagship phone this year comes in the lead-up to a number of expected phone launches from other companies. Samsung is likely to be announcing a new Galaxy S26 line<\/a> in the coming weeks, and Apple is rumored to be working on a lower-cost iPhone 17E<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET<\/a> as a preferred Google source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nothing announced in a video Thursday that the company has no plans to release a new flagship phone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-258360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}