Nothing will launch its first handset, the cellphone (1), this summer time, the corporate confirmed on Wednesday forward of its “The Truth” livestream. In the same old advertising and marketing fashion of its CEO, OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, Nothing shared a handful of particulars concerning the upcoming system whereas promising to disclose extra over the approaching months.

It introduced the cellphone will characteristic a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset and run Nothing OS, a modified model of Android that “captures the best features” of Google’s cell working system whereas distilling it “to just the essentials.” The firm promised Nothing OS would supply a quick and easy expertise, with a consumer interface that options “bespoke” fonts, colours, design components and sounds. Nothing will supply a preview of its software program imaginative and prescient in April via a launcher these with choose Android telephones can have the possibility to obtain.

In brief, it seemingly seems to be like Nothing hopes to proceed the place OnePlus left off earlier than Pei and it . By that time, many longtime OnePlus followers felt the corporate had successfully stopped catering to them with its determination to increase into the funds cellphone market by providing what they noticed as rebranded Oppo gadgets. While most assumed Nothing would finally announce a cellphone given Pei’s historical past, these assumptions grew to become much more actual firstly of March when a got here out that Nothing had proven off a smartphone in personal conferences at Mobile World Congress. Just days later, leaker Evan Blass shared a photograph of 1 such assembly Pei took with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon the place you’ll be able to see Pei holding what seems to be like an unannounced cellphone.