Regardless of having launched 4 smartphones in 2025 to this point, Nothing is rumoured to be weighing up the launch of an all new Lite handset.
Tipster Yogesh Brar has taken to X to say that Nothing is trying so as to add a ‘Lite’ or ’T’ cellphone to its roster.
In accordance with Brar, it might appear that Nothing is dissatisfied with the reception of its “Professional fashions”. We’re a little bit confused by this, as the one ‘Professional’ cellphone in Nothing’s vary is the Nothing Cellphone (3a) Professional, which is a mid-ranger that isn’t really all that Professional, in conventional phrases.
Moreover which, there’s already a Nothing Cellphone (3a) that undercuts the Nothing Cellphone (3a) Professional, to not point out the CMF Cellphone 2 Professional.
Nothing Cellphone (3) Lite?
We’d recommend that the tipster is as an alternative saying that the Nothing Cellphone (3) – arguably the model’s first true flagship cellphone – isn’t performing in addition to it might like.
Taken in that mild, a potential Nothing Cellphone (3) Lite or Nothing Cellphone (3T) would characterize a extra inexpensive almost-flagship. In that sense it might be extra in line with the Nothing Cellphone (2) which arrived in 2023 at a beginning value of £579.
That cellphone gave us a mix of flagship and mid-range specs, and in the end felt like a really succesful mid-range cellphone. Maybe Nothing is seeking to recapture that portion of the market.
Mattias Inghe
Nothing might be at a crossroads
The unique put up is frustratingly mild on specifics, so we are able to solely speculate at this level.
All we are able to say for now’s that the Nothing Cellphone (3) is “probably the most thrilling flagship cellphone in years”, although it falls wanting the equally priced Google Pixel 9 and the Samsung Galaxy S25 whenever you get right down to sensible issues.
You might argue that an Extremely mannequin is as fascinating as a Lite one, however we’ll see how issues play out over the following 12 months or so.