{"id":678456,"date":"2026-07-07T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678456\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:14:07","slug":"nothings-first-b-series-phone-is-also-skipping-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678456\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing\u2019s first B-series phone is also skipping the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Nothing is shaking up the branding of its cheapest phones, following up last year\u2019s Phone 3A Lite with a new Phone 4B. Combining design elements of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/889769\/nothing-phone-4a-pro-design-opaque-transparent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4A and 4A Pro<\/a>, it follows Nothing\u2019s previous cheaper handsets in skipping the US market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The company already uses the \u201cA\u201d branding to market its cheaper tier of products, and the first \u201cB\u201d phone sits another level below that. The 4B seemingly replaces the naming convention used for last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/808908\/nothing-phone-3a-lite-launch-price-availability\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phone 3A Lite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Design-wise, it borrows a little from the two 4A phones, which launched in March this year. The unibody look is similar to the 4A Pro, though now in plastic rather than metal, but it pairs that with a \u201crefined\u201d version of the Glyph Bar notification LEDs seen on the regular 4A. The Phone 4B will be available in white, black, and blue colors, and has an IP64 rating for dust and water protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The specs are typical for a budget phone. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/610969\/auto-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qualcomm\u2019s Snapdragon 6 Gen 4<\/a> powers the phone, paired with 8GB of RAM and 128GB or 256GB of storage. The 6.77-inch display is a 120Hz OLED, but the cameras sound basic: a dual rear camera with a 50-megapixel, OIS main sensor; and an ultrawide with no listed resolution. The battery is more of a highlight, as the 5,200mAh capacity \u2014 6,000mAh in India \u2014 makes it Nothing\u2019s biggest yet. The phone ships with Android 16, and Nothing promises it will get three years of OS updates and six of security patches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">While the Phone 4A Pro is on sale in the US, the 4B follows other cheaper Nothing phones in limiting its launch to the UK, Europe, and India. It will cost \u00a3299 \/ \u20ac329 (around $400) when it launches on July 17th, a \u00a350 \/ \u20ac80 increase on the similarly specced Phone 3A Lite. It\u2019s joined by the launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/961845\/nothing-ear-3a-wireless-earbuds-call-recording-price-availability\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$99 Ear 3A earbuds<\/a>, which by contrast are getting a US release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nothing is shaking up the branding of its cheapest phones, following up last year\u2019s Phone 3A Lite with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[786,2306,50,6994,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-gadgets","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-phones","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}