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TL;DR
- Nothing CEO Carl Pei confirmed today that the Nothing Phone 3 won’t land in 2024.
- The company says it is working to “get the product right” in light of the developing AI advancements it will have.
- Pei also gave some hints on what we can expect from Phone 3 and its inevitable focus on AI.
Since Nothing launched the Nothing Phone 1 in 2022 and the Nothing Phone 2 in 2023, it was a bygone conclusion that it would launch a Nothing Phone 3 sometime in 2024. However, Nothing CEO Carl Pei just shot down that expectation, confirming that the Nothing Phone 3 will not land this year at all.
In a video posted to X (formerly Twitter), Pei mostly talks about AI and how he envisions incorporating it into Nothing products. During this chat, he confirmed that he wanted to “get the product right,” which is no doubt the primary reason for the Nothing Phone 3 delay.
Of course, we can’t really call it a “delay” because the company never confirmed that it would actually launch a Phone 3 at all, let alone in 2024. It was just the expectation because that’s how the smartphone industry operates. But with Nothing being a small, young company, it can make bold decisions like this, so it’s cool to see it holding off until it can really nail things down.
There’s been a lot of hype around AI. Some great, some confusing. It’s great to see new companies rethinking the user experience and form factors. However, there is no doubt that smartphones will remain the main consumer AI form factor for the foreseeable future. With over 4… pic.twitter.com/ERJc7xhwBa
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