Hey Community,
With a new year starting, we wanted to take a few moments and look back on an incredible year with you all. 2025 has been a year filled with amazing product launches, community events, and company milestones. Take a quick stroll down memory lane with us and look back on this past year below.
We began the year with a teaser of something to come… this time represented by Arcanine. Of course we now know this would turn into the Phone (3a) Series product line and release just a short month later.
👥 Just before the Phone (3a) Series release we were proud to host our first ever Women in Design Panel in London. We heard from three incredible talents in the tech and product design space while providing an open space to connect and network in the industries we are so happy to help represent.
The three speakers in this panel were
Rifke Sadleir: Creative Coder & Educator across the arts, fashion, music, and environmental/social justice
Lucy Birley: Lead CMF Designer at Nothing
Astrid Vanhuyse: Industrial designer, co-founder of design studio Akasaki Vanhuyse, winner of Nothing’s Community Edition Project 2024
In March we launched and released the Phone (3a) Series lineup while making some of the content that only Nothing can do. We shared a full teardown of Phone (3a) Pro shortly before opening up entries for our second ever Community designed device, this time with the Phone (3a).
🪛 April saw an exciting announcement of the next generation of CMF devices with the CMF Phone 2 Pro and a full new lineup of CMF Buds to join the CMF family. The CMF Phone 2 Pro shifted the customisability options to the community with the ability to 3D print and craft your own accessories straight onto the device.
🏆 We finished up April with the Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition winning a Gold iF Design award in Berlin. Here’s what the IF Design jury had to say about the project:
“The ‘Nothing design language’ of the first generation of devices from this brand has been taken to the next level with a new model co-created by its community of users (hence the name). This is a bold step that prefigures a likely trend in product design. Just as the internet is now dominated by user-generated content, hardware designers will increasingly look to users for ideas and impulses. The Nothing Phone is ahead of the curve on this trend.”
In the middle of May, the Nothing Community reached a milestone we once only dreamed of: 100,000 members. Today, we’re already closer to 200,000 than we are to 100,000. These milestones mean everything to us. Thank you all for being part of this journey with us.
Shortly after celebrating 100,000 members, we helped them celebrate in our own way. The Community Edition 2025 Winners were announced, this began the process of creating the Phone (3a) Community Edition and all new Dice accessory.
📞 🎧 Over the summer period, early speculation steadily grew into widespread excitement about what was to come. Phone (3) and Headphone (1) were arriving, and soon. Following the teasers, we launched officially in July and saw enthusiastic support from our entire community. Launch moments were held across the globe 🌍 including large events in Sydney 🇦🇺 and of course the main event in London 🇬🇧.
In September we announced Nothing OS 4.0 and an Open Beta for it as well. Not only was Nothing OS 4.0 highly anticipated but it was so highly anticipated that the open post remains as our highest viewed post in this platform’s history. Currently this post stands at over 1 Million views!
🗳️ While the year began winding down we opened applications for someone to succeed @adbo as our next Community Board Observer. Now that elections have come and gone, we have recently welcomed @Louis ☕️ back to the position of Community Board Observer to represent all of you in 2026.
@Selin, @Zac, and @Jasmine_p all came into the Community Team right in time to help celebrate the launch of the largest Community project of the year. The Community Edition launch was amazing and celebrated around the world in both events as well as drops. Incredible work by @EmreKayganaci , @Reveland , @jadzok , @SushrutaSarkar led to this being a beautiful retro tech inspired creation!
Community Investment (3) was live for less than a week and saw 5,000 investors in more than 80 different countries raise over $8 million. This brought the total number of community investors to an impressive 11,000.
📢 With 2025 coming to a close, we want to say thank you. Thank you for the posts, the comments, the feedback, the support, the stories, and of course the collaboration that makes the Nothing Community the best community in the world. Our eyes are steadfast on 2026 with some really cool things planned that we can’t wait to share with you all. Stay tuned for updates, we’ll be in touch soon.
🎉 To help us celebrate, we’re running a Headphone (1) Giveaway! We’ll be selecting five winners from the comments to receive a pair of Headphone (1).
With too many incredible moments in 2025 to list here, what was your favourite moment? Whether it was a product launch, an event, or a fun photography challenge, share it in the comments below. If we missed one, let us know, we’ll be hanging out in the comments!
To enter, answer the following question and like this post:
What was your favourite Nothing moment of 2025?
This giveaway will close in one week, on Monday 19th January at 12pm GMT! T&Cs apply.
