Nothing has begun teasing an upcoming smartphone that could be called the “Nothing Phone 4b.” A new video posted on the company’s India account on X ends with a prominently highlighted 4b pencil and a sketch showing a familiar transparent back and an apparent
Nothing’s next phone didn’t arrive with a spec sheet or a countdown timer. It arrived as a sketch—and a single, stubborn detail that refuses to be anything but a clue.
The company’s India account posted a short teaser on X showing an outlined smartphone. The clip doesn’t offer much shape or hardware to grab onto at first glance. Then. near the end. the teaser pivots to what looks like the biggest hint yet: a set of sketching pencils with the 4b pencil clearly highlighted.
The teaser’s framing seems designed to make the connection hard to miss. The title reads “(b)usted,” and the phone in the sketch carries several Nothing design signatures, including a transparent rear panel with exposed internal detailing. The drawing also appears to show a single rear camera.
Put together, the signs point to a brand-new device called the Nothing Phone 4b. If that’s right, it would add a new rung to Nothing’s lineup—potentially a budget or lower mid-range option sitting alongside the existing Nothing Phone 4a and Nothing Phone 4a Pro lines.
The bigger story sits in what Nothing has said about where it wants to land the pricing. Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis has argued that launching a CMF Phone 2 Pro today with its current specifications would push its price to around Rs. 30,000–35,000 (roughly $317–$370). He described that as being far above the segment the CMF brand targets.
Nothing, though, insists that new smartphones are still on the way. The company has already started teasing two upcoming products under Pokémon-inspired codenames: “Jumpluff” and “Blastoise.” At the same time. leaker Yogesh Brar claimed that existing CMF phone projects had been shifted to the main Nothing brand.
If that claim holds up, this newly teased device could be one of those former CMF projects—repackaged as a Nothing Phone. A lower-cost Nothing Phone 4b would fit the logic of replacing something that may have originally been planned to launch under the CMF banner.
For now, Nothing isn’t confirming anything. But the teaser is hard to ignore: the “4b” pencil. the “(b)usted” title. and a sketch that looks engineered to signal budget-friendly design cues. The picture forming around a Nothing Phone 4b may still be incomplete—but the intention behind the clues feels unusually clear.
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