After revelations about its transparent design, the Nothing Phone 1 drops its price and release date.
Communication around the Nothing Phone 1 is racing. Unofficial information gives us clues on its release date and price and Carl Pei specifies the appearance of his smartphone. It’s official. the Nothing Phone 1 will be transparent like headphones Nothing Ear 1.
Carl Pei clarifies his intentions on Twitter. The parton of the company wants to break with the monotony of smartphones. The idea for a transparent shell came from a New York subway map that showed the tangle of lines resembling the inside of a smartphone.
Carl Pei and his team started with this idea of transparency. To lighten their task, they focused on one of the 400 elements that make up a smartphone. No need to show everything.
Nothing Phone 1 – A price and a release date
The designated star of this “transparency” operation is the wireless charging coil. Very graphic, it will be visible through the hull. We learn in passing that the smartphone is compatible with wireless charging.
While waiting to discover the smartphone, Carl Pei makes us wait with a board of diagrams. You can discover the various studies that led to this choice. The leader specifies that the wait will be short since the Nothing Phone 1 will be unveiled this summer 2022.
The German site AllRoundPC has a more precise date to give us. The information comes from a European distributor. The Nothing Phone 1 will launch on July 21. Another clarification, the Nothing Phone 1 will not be a high-end device.
Its price would be around 500€ rather than 1000€. Under these conditions, it could be powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 processor.