What you must know
- Nothing’s co-founder, Akis Evangelidis, states the Telephone 3 will obtain 5 years of Android OS upgrades and 7 years of safety patches.
- This a serious shift from the Telephone 2’s three-year Android OS promise and 4 years of safety updates.
- Not too long ago, Nothing’s CEO Carl Pei confirmed the Telephone 3 will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 for a “snappier” and “balanced” expertise for customers.
- The Telephone 3 is ready to debut on July 1.
A leak may’ve given us an thought in regards to the software program longevity of Nothing’s upcoming flagship cellphone.
Amidst the current Nothing chip teaser for the Telephone 3, the corporate’s co-founder revealed the software program replace outlook for the system (by way of 9to5Google). In keeping with Akis Evangelidis, the Nothing Telephone 3 will allegedly present customers with 5 years of Android OS updates and 7 years of safety updates.
What’s unclear early on is how typically these safety updates will arrive for customers. Nothing’s Telephone 2 skilled bi-monthly updates, and it appears it is doing the identical for the most recent 3a sequence. Contemplating Nothing’s actually pushing the “flagship” standing of the Telephone 3, it might be good to see safety updates each month, however we’ll should see what occurs.
Furthermore, the prolonged length of main Android OS upgrades, which ought to take customers into 2030 earlier than that is executed with. It is a main shift from the Telephone 2’s three-year Android OS promise (with 4 years of safety updates). This is not fairly seven years like Samsung, but it surely’s higher than earlier than.
The Nothing Flagship
8 Gen 3 has a weaker GPU, NPU, connectivity and ISP – and default software program help is 4 & 4. Telephone (3) could have 5 & 7.June 17, 2025
Evangelidis additionally highlighted some key particulars about Nothing’s thought to make use of the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 SoC within the Telephone 3. The chip is alleged to carry an 88% enhance in GPU, a 33% enhance in CPU energy, and a 125% increase in its NPU.
Simply yesterday (June 17), Nothing confirmed that the Telephone 3 will rock Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 SoC. The corporate’s CEO, Carl Pei, adopted this up in a YouTube video, stating the Telephone 3 will primarily blow its predecessor, the Telephone 2, out of the water. Not solely are the cellphone’s cameras mentioned to see a wild increase, however its efficiency ought to step it up significantly, as properly.
In apply, Pei mentioned the Telephone 3 ought to really feel loads “snappier” when in use. Some customers might marvel why Nothing is choosing the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 as an alternative of one thing else. Pei states he needed to provide customers a “balanced expertise” with a chip that would deal with the whole lot had “gotten higher” contained in the Telephone 3.
The Nothing Telephone 3 (and the Headphone 1) are set to debut on July 1 in London. The smartphone is poised some a big design change, that being the removing of its Glyph lighting system in favor of a dot-matrix.
