We already suspected that might be the case, however now it’s official – the Nothing cellphone (1) is not going to be out there within the US. No North American provider was on the supported record that we noticed yesterday when 100 restricted version models have been put up for public sale. Here’s what the corporate needed to say:
“Whereas we’d like to convey cellphone (1) to your entire group around the globe, we’re specializing in dwelling markets, together with the UK and Europe, the place now we have robust partnerships with main native carriers. It takes loads to launch a smartphone as , from guaranteeing the handset is supported by the nation’s mobile applied sciences to provider partnerships and native regulation, and as we’re nonetheless a younger model we should be strategic about it,” mentioned Nothing in an announcement to PCMag.
Verizon doesn’t enable telephones on its community that aren’t on its whitelist. Equally, AT&T allows VoLTE just for choose telephones. And that’s successfully a ban, since with out VoLTE your cellphone might want to drop right down to 3G to make a name and AT&T shut down its 3G community this February. T-Cell is extra open, however it doesn’t use the the entire identical bands as European carriers, so protection shall be spotty.
Nothing does have plans to launch a smartphone within the US sooner or later, however it might want to get at the very least one main provider on board first. Founder Carl Pei has performed it earlier than, the OnePlus 6 was the first from his former firm to promote within the US and Canada with help for a number of carriers (however not all).
PS. Though some models are being auctioned off proper now, the Nothing cellphone (1) launch is about for July 12.
