IT Home Reported on March 3 that Nothing, a consumer technology brand created by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, is planning to launch its first smartphone next month. The company's phone has reportedly been in development for more than a year, and carl Pei is said to have shown its prototype to executives from companies like Qualcomm at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.
▲ Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus
Nothing released its first product last year: a wireless headset called ear 1. The company's new phone will reportedly contain design elements similar to its headphones, such as the use of transparent components, though details about the new machine are limited.
Carl Pei has always been clear that he wants Nothing's products to expand to more categories over time. In an interview with The Verge last January, Carl Pei said it planned to eventually offer an ecosystem of different devices, and the following month, Nothing bought the rights to the Essential brand built by the father of Android, which released an Android smartphone in 2017 and shut down less than three years later. Last November, a company executive in India said Nothing had five new products in development.
IT House understands that Carl Pei seems to have been making some sort of teaser lately. On Feb. 15, he tweeted that he was "back to Android," and both Android and Snapdragon brand accounts posted similar cryptic trailers in response. Even Nothing's official brand account predicts that "March will be fun".