- We can expect the Nothing Phone 3 in Q3
- July seems a good bet based on previous launches
- We already have the Phone 3a and Phone 3a Pro
We’ve been waiting a while for the Nothing Phone 3 – you may remember its launch was pushed back last year because Nothing wanted more time to work on its software and AI – but we now know it will definitely be arriving this year.
After opening up an ‘ask me anything’ session on X, Nothing CEO Carl Pei said that the Nothing Phone 3 would be launching in “Q3”, the third quarter of this year. That puts the launch window as July, August, or September.
We didn’t get any more details than that, unfortunately, so it remains to be seen exactly when the next flagship phone from Nothing will make an appearance. The Nothing Phone 2 was launched in July of 2023, which may give us a clue.
Back in November of last year we heard a tip that Nothing would launch three phones by the middle of this year, which means around June and July time – and the Nothing Phone 3a and the Nothing Phone 3a Pro were both unveiled in March 2025.
The story so far
If Nothing had stuck to a regular schedule, we would’ve seen the Nothing Phone 3 in July 2024. However, in June 2024, Pei announced that the handset’s launched would be pushed back to this year, stressing the need to “get the product right”.
Pei went on to say that “integrating hardware and AI in a way that is both useful and brings a smile to people’s faces” was the aim with the next Nothing flagship phone, so we can expect to see a bundle of artificial intelligence features included.
As our Nothing Phone 3a Pro review will tell you, there’s already plenty of AI on board the current Nothing handsets – but these features, including the Essential Space ‘second memory’, could still use some work. Improvements may arrive with the Nothing Phone 3.
From the leaks we’ve come across so far, it sounds as though the Nothing Phone 3 is going to be a significant upgrade on its predecessor, and quite possibly one of the phones of the year. In a few months time, we should know for sure.
