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 significant shift from the Telephone 2’s three-year Android OS promise and 4 years of safety updates.
- Lately, Nothing’s CEO Carl Pei confirmed the Telephone 3 will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 for a “snappier” and “balanced” expertise for shoppers.
- The Telephone 3 is about to debut on July 1.
A leak would possibly’ve given us an thought concerning 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 gadget (through 9to5Google). In line with Akis Evangelidis, the Nothing Telephone 3 will allegedly present shoppers 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 will be good to see safety updates each month, however we’ll need to see what occurs.
Furthermore, the prolonged period of main Android OS upgrades, which ought to take shoppers into 2030 earlier than that is accomplished with. This can be 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, nevertheless it’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) can 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 claimed to carry an 88% enhance in GPU, a 33% enhance in CPU energy, and a 125% enhance 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 basically blow its predecessor, the Telephone 2, out of the water. Not solely are the cellphone’s cameras mentioned to see a wild enhance, however its efficiency ought to step it up significantly, as nicely.
In follow, Pei mentioned the Telephone 3 ought to really feel rather a lot “snappier” when in use. Some customers might surprise why Nothing is choosing the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 as an alternative of one thing else. Pei states he needed to offer customers a “balanced expertise” with a chip that might deal with all the things 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 major design change, that being the elimination of its Glyph lighting system in favor of a dot-matrix.
