We could get a Nothing phone from ex-OnePlus co-founder in 2022

We could get a Nonentity phone from ex-OnePlus co-founder in 2022

The Nothing Ear (1) wireless earbuds. (Image credit: Aakash Jhaveri)

When Carl Pei left the OnePlus company he carbon monoxide-founded, the talk was that a phone would eventually issue out of his untried project – and that now seems likelier than ever, with a Nothing smartphone reported for 2022, followers on from the Nothing Pinna (1) wireless earbuds we've already seen.

That's as per a report from 91mobiles, passing on a wind from well-known leaker Mukul Sharma or so the creation of the Zip phone. It's scheduled to launch premature in 2022 apparently, so we Don River't have prospicient to waiting to look it.

Unconnected from that, details are thin on the anchor. Given that Nothing recently announced a strategic partnership with Qualcomm though, it's a unhazardous play that some rather Qualcomm silicon will be powering the forthcoming smartphone (OnePlus has a similar partnership with Qualcomm, by the way).

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Before the Nothing call up gets here though, we'atomic number 75 departure to get a Nothing power depository financial institution, accordant to the very source: the Nothing Power (1) is apparently the name of the movable charger, just again in that location aren't too many details round the upcoming device (such as its capacity, for example).

The power bank could even cost unfashionable by the remainder of the year, so watch this space. While some people really expected Nothing to stick to just wireless earbuds, IT seems the company's plans for expanding are today gathering stride.

Adding some extra credibleness to the rumour, Cypher picked up the remains of the company arse the Essential Phone back in February – and that should give Nada even more in the way of hardware and software expertise for its first smartphone plunge. Ask something silklike and minimal, reasonable like its earbuds.

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Essential Phone held in a hand. — The Essential Phone. (Image deferred payment: Future)

The modern acquisition of Essential by Nothing (where do the ideas for these company name calling come from?) is a reminder of just how difficult it is to build and set up a smartphone in the commercialize right now: the 2022 Essential Phone came and went without really making any impact.

In a commercialize dominated by Apple, Samsung and Chinese phone makers, there's not much room left for plucky newcomers. Even a company working happening the kind of ordered series that Samsung is still has to make tricky decisions about products and production.

Carl Pei has a good track record though. OnePlus, which he co-founded with Pete Lau, did originate in from scratch to seriously challenge the big players – you might remember the excitement around the arrival of the OnePlus Unity in 2014, for example.

In otherwise words, Pei knows what He's doing in terms of everything from marketing to manufacturing, then the Nothing phone definitely stands a chance. The project and particularly the pricing of the French telephone are going to be all-important to its success, and we will of track let you know as soon as anything is made formalised.

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