Nothing cancels this year’s CMF phone due to RAM prices

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Nothing’s co-founder says CMF couldn’t build a phone ‘at a price that makes sense.’

by Stevie Bonifield

Jun 19, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.

Nothing’s next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won’t be coming this year:

We were working on a successor but with memory prices where they are right now, we can’t build a phone that feels like a genuine step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF. As a result, we’ve decided not to launch a new CMF phone this year.

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