Living the American Dream! Carl Pei's Nothing Phone 2: Premium flagship coming for Pixel 7's head - PhoneArena

When the Nothing Phone 1 was teased and eventually released in the summer of last year, few were willing to take Carl Pei’s post-OnePlus adventure seriously - including me.

But to the critics’ credit, there were a bunch of good reasons for that…For one, the smartphone market is more saturated than ever, but second, giants like Samsung, Apple, Google and Xiaomi look so comfortable where they are that it’s crazy to think they could be challenged by another, smaller phone-maker, let alone a newcomer.

Although his own reasoning behind that is not to make the Phone 1 seem like a “non-flagship”, I think he’s simply trying to tell us not to expect a direct Galaxy S23 or iPhone 15 competitor, but also to expect something better than the Phone 1.Contrary to the nerds who expect Nothing to make a “true flagship phone” (and trust me, you’ll find plenty of them on Twitter), I happen to think avoiding competition with Apple and Samsung is the best decision Pei could possibly make…Due to a number of political and economic reasons, smartphone sales are seeing one of the biggest declines in history, as people have less money to spend.

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However, by design, premium mid-range phones exist to get users to reconsider their decision of buying a more expensive “true flagship”.

Turns out Apple isn't the only phone-maker that likes to Think Different.Again, the current state of the smartphone market is telling us people have less cash to spare, so cheaper phones should be more apetizing than ever, and here comes Nothing…