Nothing’s new Phone (4a) and (4a) Pro combine iconic design, a bright Glyph interface and Snapdragon performance to redefine the affordable smartphone. In the meantime, the company is preparing the ground for a future listing on the stock exchange.
There is something paradoxical in the name of this company. Nothingthat is, “nothing”. Yet from 2020 to today, the startup founded in London by Carl Peiformer co-founder of OnePlus, has built something concrete, real and increasingly difficult to ignore: a brand with a powerful visual identitya community of passionate fans and, above all, a growth trajectory that few tech companies in the world can boast. At the London launch of the Phone (4a) series, that gamble crystallizes in the clearest possible form.
The new Nothing Phone (4a) and Phone (4a) Pro: design and performance
The new line redefines the mid-range fusing human warmth and high-level engineering. Nothing no longer limits itself to perfecting its hardware, but plays with aesthetics by introducing colored versions which could provide further impetus in an increasingly ruthless market. The Phone (4a) is available in black, white, light blue and pink, with starting prices from 369 euros for the basic version.
Its bigger brother, the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro, further raises the aesthetic figure with a design that does not go unnoticed at allcharacterized by a unibody metal body just 7.95 mm thick and available in black, silver and pink, starting from 499 euros.
The refined look, however, does not steal the show from the performance: the Pro model features the processor Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 and has a 50MP periscope telephoto lens capable of reaching up to a 140x zooma unique achievement for its category. On board both devices we find the new Nothing OS 4.1 interface based on Android 16, perfectly integrated with the famous Glyph light interface, which has been further refined to reduce distractions from the screen.
Headphone (a), audio gone pop
The London stage also saw the debut of Headphone (a)the new addition to the brand’s line of over-ear headphones. Here too, the company pushes hard on a bold aesthetic, proposing a dynamic color palette which includes pink, white, black and the limited version in yellow.
Designed for those who love to combine fashion with high audio resolution, the headphones offer battery life at the top of the category: up to 135 hours of listening time with active noise cancellation turned off, the equivalent of five continuous days. Equipped with 40 mm drivers with titanium coating and Adaptive Active Noise Cancellation system based on artificial intelligence, the Headphone (a) arrive on the market with a rather interesting price of 159 euros.
A startup that became a unicorn
Six years after its founding, Nothing’s trajectory tells a rather rare story in the smartphone industry. The company has in fact managed to carve out a space for yourself in a sector dominated by historic giantstransforming in a very short time into one unicorn startup and attracting a global community of investors and enthusiasts.
At the end of December 2025 the company launched a further round of community funding of around £6 millionwith the declared aim of strengthening growth and preparing for a future arrival on the financial markets. The declared goal is ambitious: be ready for a stock market listing within three years.
If the operation succeeds, it will be confirmation that Carl Pei’s bet – to bring creativity, identity and a pinch of rebellion to a sector that has become too predictable – was not just marketing, but the beginning of a much broader strategy to try to become one of the new protagonists of consumer electronics global.
