Nothing Phone 3 price rumors step back from the brink

What’s the next big Android smartphone launch you’re looking forward to? Google’s Pixel 10 series is on our radar this summer, as are Samsung’s next-gen foldables, but the first headline-grabbing phone to land might just be the Nothing Phone 3. The company’s been teasing a newly glyph-less Phone 3 for launch this July, and now a new rumor attempts to address one of the bigger questions surrounding how it might arrive.

Last month brought us tons of Android news, both from Google I/O and the inaugural Android Show. Nothing CEO Carl Pei contributed a video message to the latter, where he hinted at what sounded like a big shake-up to Nothing Phone pricing. According to Pei, the Phone 3 would sell for £800, or over $1,000. Considering that the Phone 2 started at just $600 in the US, this made it feel like Nothing was going after another class of phone shoppers entirely, making a move on bigger-name flagships.

That may not be the case in the end, though. Over on Blue Sky, noted leaker Roland Quandt asserts that the base level Nothing Phone 3 will sell for just under $800 in the US. While that still represents a fair price hike, it’s also one that’s far more measured than we feared. That kind of money would get you the Phone 3 in its 12GB RAM, 256GB storage configuration; for more like $900, you could upgrade to 16GB memory and 512GB storage. Considering that a fully tricked-out Phone 2 would go for nearly $800, that’s again a price increase that doesn’t feel particularly egregious.

It’s not just the Phone 3 on our radar, though, and we’ve also been expecting to get our hands on an all-new offering from the company, in the form of its first set of cans: a pair of over-ear headphones. We’ve been digging Nothing’s earbud offerings for years now, so this pair has a lot to live up to. So far details have been pretty light, but now Arsène Lupin posts a teaser to X, claiming that Nothing is targeting a September 30 launch for these “Headphones 1.” We may get our choice of either black or white colorways, and pricing is tipped to come in just under $300.

That would put the Headphones 1 in a pretty competitive price bracket, where they’ll be facing off against some much more established brands. We can’t wait to hear how they stack up!