Overview
- CMF co‑founder Akis Evangelidis said on X Friday that the CMF Phone 3 Pro will not launch in 2026 because current memory costs make a properly priced, meaningful successor unviable.
- Evangelidis framed the decision as protecting CMF’s reputation after the well‑received CMF Phone 2 Pro, saying the team would not ship a downgraded product just to meet an annual cadence.
- Reporting and leaks indicate Nothing may reassign some CMF hardware work into the main Nothing lineup, which could include an upcoming Nothing Phone that uses designs originally meant for CMF.
- Nothing has continued to tease new devices with dot‑matrix Pokemon images and has said several new products and product categories will still arrive this year, though exact details remain unconfirmed.
- Industry sources and Nothing leadership say memory and RAM costs have jumped enough to change component math for phones, raising prices for budget models and forcing makers to delay, rebrand, or cancel launches.