Nothing has added a lower tier to its phone lineup with the Phone 4B, a budget handset that again leaves US buyers on the wrong side of the launch map. The Verge reports that the phone will be sold in the UK, Europe and India, following the pattern of Nothing’s other cheaper models.
The move also changes Nothing’s naming scheme. The company has used “A” for its less expensive phones, including the Phone 4A and Phone 4A Pro. The new “B” label sits below that range, according to The Verge, and appears to take over the slot occupied last year by the Phone 3A Lite.
That branding shuffle is doing some work. The Phone 4A Pro is available in the US, but the 4B is not joining it there. For American buyers who wanted a lower-cost Nothing phone without importing one, the answer is still no.
Plastic body, familiar Nothing lighting
The Phone 4B borrows from both of Nothing’s 4A phones. Its single-piece body resembles the Phone 4A Pro’s design, though Nothing has switched the material to plastic rather than metal. The phone also uses a revised version of the Glyph Bar notification LEDs from the standard Phone 4A.
Nothing will offer the handset in white, black and blue. It carries an IP64 rating, which means it has dust protection and resistance to water splashes, rather than the kind of stronger water protection found on pricier phones. That is a sensible budget-phone tradeoff, provided buyers read the rating instead of treating “IP” as a magic waterproofing spell.
Budget specs with a large battery
Inside, Nothing is using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 processor. The phone comes with 8GB of RAM and either 128GB or 256GB of storage, according to The Verge.
The display is a 6.77-inch OLED panel with a 120Hz refresh rate. That puts one of the more visible quality-of-life specs, smoother scrolling and animation, in a cheaper device. The camera setup is more restrained: the rear system has two cameras, led by a 50-megapixel main sensor with optical image stabilization. Nothing has not listed a resolution for the ultrawide camera in the details reported by The Verge.
The battery is the clearest hardware pitch. The Phone 4B has a 5,200mAh cell in most markets, while the India version gets 6,000mAh. The Verge reports that makes it the largest battery Nothing has put in a phone so far.
The handset ships with Android 16. Nothing says it will provide three years of operating system updates and six years of security patches. That is the kind of promise that matters more after the launch photos stop circulating, because cheap phones often get abandoned early. As ever, the useful test is whether Nothing delivers those updates on time, not whether the policy looks tidy on a spec sheet.
This story draws on original reporting from The Verge.
