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In abstract:
- Tech Advisor studies that Nothing has launched the Telephone (4b) at £299/€329, that includes a Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 processor, 8GB RAM, and the biggest battery in Nothing’s lineup at 5200mAh.
- The system contains Nothing’s signature Glyph Interface with 45 mini-LEDs throughout 4 zones, a 6.77-inch Tremendous AMOLED show with 120Hz refresh charge, and IP64 mud/splash resistance.
- This budget-friendly smartphone seems positioned as a non secular successor to the CMF Telephone 2 Professional, providing three years of OS updates and launching July seventeenth.
After a number of teasers, Nothing has lastly introduced its brand-new, reasonably priced cellphone for 2026: the Nothing Telephone (4b).
The London-based model made headlines in current weeks with the information that there’d be no successor to the wonderful CMF Telephone 2 Professional this 12 months. Regardless of launching effectively over a 12 months in the past, it’s nonetheless sitting fairly on the prime of our greatest finances telephones information.
Nonetheless, Nothing isn’t ignoring the finances cellphone sector altogether, and the brand new Telephone (4b) is far more in line with what we’ve seen from the corporate beforehand.
Nothing Telephone (4b) design
The cellphone’s design attracts from its barely costlier sibling within the Nothing Telephone (4a), with refined semi-transparent prospers on its digicam module and the simplified Glyph system.
The form of that digicam module and the unibody body, in the meantime, reminds us of the Nothing Telephone (4a) Professional – albeit the latter is plastic quite than steel.
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It’s rated to IP64 for mud and water resistance, that means it’s totally dust-proof however can solely stand up to splashes of water. The color choices are fairly normal, although the blue different to black and white fashions appears significantly interesting.
It’s a surprisingly hefty cellphone, given its plastic construct, with dimensions of 164.4 x 78.2 x 8.6mm and a weight of 210g.
Nothing has included its Important Key from the costlier fashions, offering a shortcut to the Important Area, Important Search, Important Voice, Important Apps and Playground instruments.
Nothing Telephone (4b) Glyph Interface and show
Nothing’s Glyph Interface right here incorporates 45 mini-LEDs (down from 63 within the 4a) unfold throughout 4 individually addressable zones (down from six).
They will present notifications, charging progress, recording indicators, and personalised alerts at a brightness of as much as 3,500 nits. It’s a lot much less in your face than the Glyph Matrix display screen on the (4a) Professional, which many individuals will respect.
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Round entrance there’s a 6.77-inch Tremendous AMOLED show with a 2344 x 1080 (FHD+) decision and a 120Hz refresh charge.
It’ll hit 1200 nits of brightness in direct daylight and 600 nits with auto brightness switched off, with a peak brightness of 2000 nits in restricted HDR eventualities (HDR10+ is supported).
That is flanked, in panorama orientation not less than, by twin stereo audio system.
Nothing Telephone (4b) efficiency, battery and digicam
As tipped forward of launch, the Nothing Telephone (4b) runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 processor – a lower-mid-range but pretty fashionable 4nm chip – along with 8GB of RAM and a meaty 4,400mm² vapour chamber. It comes with 128GB of storage as normal.
The Nothing Telephone (4b)’s 5200mAh battery is the biggest we’ve seen in a Nothing cellphone thus far. It’s quite dwarfed by the Indian mannequin, nonetheless, which stretches to 6000mAh.
There’s wired charging help as much as a modest 33W.
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There’s a 1/2.76” 50Mp important digicam with OIS on the again, accompanied by a 1/4″ 8Mp ultra-wide. Round entrance there’s a 16Mp selfie cam.
The corporate’s lean, artfully minimalist Nothing OS 4.1 UI (primarily based on Android 16) ships as normal. Software program help is quite modest at three years of main OS variations and 6 years of safety updates, although that is on the cheaper finish of the dimensions.
Speaking of which, the Nothing Telephone (4b)’s sole mannequin prices £299 / €329. This makes it considerably (about 37%) costlier than the £219 CMF Telephone 2 Professional, whereas undercutting the £329 Samsung Galaxy A27. Given the present financial local weather and international RAM scarcity, we in all probability shouldn’t be stunned.
The Telephone (4b) will initially be out there completely from Nothing’s bodily retailer in London on 11 July, earlier than transport on 17 July. You’ll be able to pre-order one from the Nothing web site now, although it’s not going to be out there within the US.