{"id":258953,"date":"2026-01-30T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258953\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:24:10","slug":"there-wont-be-a-nothing-phone-4-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258953\/","title":{"rendered":"There won\u2019t be a Nothing Phone 4 this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nothing CEO Carl Pei confirmed the Phone 4 won\u2019t launch in 2026 in a new video on the brand\u2019s YouTube channel. \u201cThere\u2019s no new flagship this year,\u201d Pei said when asked about phone plans for 2026, instead emphasizing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/mobile\/709093\/nothing-phone-3-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year\u2019s Phone 3<\/a> remains the Nothing flagship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWe\u2019re not just going to churn out a new flagship every year for the sake of it, we want every upgrade to feel significant,\u201d Pei said. \u201cJust because the rest of the industry does things a certain way it doesn\u2019t mean we will do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nothing is releasing phones though, with the midrange Phone 4A series on the way. \u201c4A will be a complete evolution over its predecessor across the board, from display, to camera, to overall performance,\u201d Pei said, adding it will be closer to a flagship experience than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/622405\/nothing-phone-3a-pro-essential-space-price-specs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3A series<\/a>. He was light on the details, beyond the promise of premium materials and \u201cbold new experimentation in terms of color.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nothing CEO Carl Pei confirmed the Phone 4 won\u2019t launch in 2026 in a new video on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[356,342,111,43,139,69,2063,370,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-258953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-phones","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258953","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=258953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}