Nothing Phone (2): Everything you need to know

Nothing has finally officially released the Nothing Phone (2). It has a similar look to the distinctive Phone (1) with programmable lights under its transparent rear glass.

The new phone has a larger screen, slightly different colour options, a new glyph light interface, an improved software.

Here’s everything you need to know about the Nothing Phone (2).

When will the Nothing Phone (2) be released?

The Nothing Phone (2) is available to buy now direct from Nothing after its launch on 11 July.

How much will the Nothing Phone (2) cost?

The Nothing Phone (2) comes in three different versions. Here’s the pricing:

• Nothing Phone (2) 8GB RAM 128GB storage: $599/£579/€649
• Nothing Phone (2) 12GB RAM 256GB storage: $699/£629/€699
• Nothing Phone (2) 12GB RAM 512GB storage: $799/£699/€799

What are the specs and features of the Nothing Phone (2)?

Nothing says the Phone (2) has a different design to the Nothing Phone (1). This is technically true, but it also looks incredibly similar.

Design

The back of the Phone (2) – which is available in a white or grey transparent design – has virtually the same ‘glyph’ lights as the Phone (1), but now has more individual sections, including the central light ring now split into six parts.

One of these has 16 different parts so it can be used as a countdown timer and to display other information.

Swedish House Mafia has collaborated with Nothing to provide sounds for a new ringtone composer, and you can set useful things (if you don’t mind putting your phone face down lots) such as keeping a light lit when you get a notification from a certain app or person.

The phone is a little larger than before and has curved glass on the back. There’s different details such as a red accent and some slightly different other sections, but you might be hard pressed to tell this phone apart from its predecessor. Nothing is working on building a brand, so the similarities make sense at this stage, bold as they are.

Display

Bigger and brighter is the name of the game here. Up front is a 6.7in 120Hz OLED screen, which has LTPO tech to allow the rate to pare back to 1Hz to save battery life.

Nothing says the screen can get to 1600 nits of peak brightness and there is a slightly thinner bezel around the outside of the flat panel for maximum display size within the frame.

Specs

Here are the full specs of the Nothing Phone (2):

• Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
• 8/12GB RAM
• 128/256/512GB storage
• 6.7in 120Hz LTPO OLED display
• Rear camera:
  • 50Mp, f/1.8 OIS main camera
  • 50Mp, f/2.2 ultrawide camera
  • 32Mp, f/2.45 selfie camera
• 4700mAh battery
• 45W wired charging
• 15W wireless charging
• 5W reverse wireless charging
• 5G
• Stereo speakers
• Wi-Fi 6
• Bluetooth 5.3
• NFC
• Glyph Interface LED lights
• IP54
• Gorilla Glass
• Android 13 with Nothing OS 2.0
• 159.2 x 75.8 x 8.3mm
• 201g

The big upgrade here is the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. Nothing has opted to go for this instead of the newer 8 Gen 2 presumably to keep the price of the product down, and it’s hardly a downgrade. Performance should be excellent.

The main camera uses the Sony IMX890 chipset but this is actually incredibly similar to the IMX766 from the Phone (1) – the two are virtually identical. Any camera improvements will likely have to come from updated image processing algorithms.

45W charging is nice to have but there’s no charger in the box, and you also get 15W wireless charging and 5W reverse wireless charging.

There’s a tiny bump up to IP54 from the Phone (1)’s IP53, but this still means the Phone (2) is only officially splashproof. You’d want to keep it away from the bath.

Software

Nothing has updated its software to OS 2.0 with the release of the Phone (2), bringing a decent number of new features.

As with many phones, this applies largely to the look and feel of the home screen. You can now customise your app icons with the Nothing icon pack, which skins all apps into a monochrome version. It one-ups the Android 13 app theming, which requires developers to provide an update for it to work.

Nothing has also added some clever widgets such as being able to add a quick setting onto the home screen directly, so now you can have toggles for things like Do Not Disturb, Wi-Fi, and Hotspot next to adds and other widgets.

Other Nothing widgets look attractively minimalist for apps such as Weather and Clock.

Very pleasingly, Nothing is promising three years of software updates to 2026 and four years of security patches delivered every two months to 2027. That’s great to see from such a young company and means the Phone (2) looks like a well-priced investment.