CMF Phone 2 Pro Successor Cancelled, Co-Founder Explains

Highlights

Akis Evangelidis officially confirms CMF’s plans to scrap CMF Phone 3 Pro’s development, citing raising memory price as the reason.
The co-founder of CMF and Nothing promises CMF’s continuous efforts to bring more products in the coming year, including the start of a new product category.
This announcement comes right when Nothing is preparing to launch its new “B series product lineup” in India.

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CMF Phone 2 Pro Successor Cancelled, Co-Founder Explains

CMF catches attention after announcing its decision not to launch any phone. This announcement also scrapped their plans to launch the next successor of their budget-friendly phone award winner, CMF Phone 2 Pro. Recently, the co-founder of Nothing and CMF, Akis Evangelidis, took on X, explaining why they have decided not to launch more CMF phones, especially the successor to Phone 2 Pro.

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Key Highlights

Nothing and CMF’s co-founder, Akis Evangelidis, reveals the reason behind shelving their plans to launch CMF Phone 2 Pro’s successor.
The co-founder cites “raising memory prices” as the main reason.
The current models launched by CMF will still be selling.

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CMF Co-Founder Reveals Why the CMF Phone 2 Pro Successor Was Cancelled

CMF was launched as a sub-brand of Carl Pei’s Nothing, focusing primarily on the budget-friendly segment but with no compromises on the specification, as well as sticking to Nothing’s design formula. CMF Phone 2 Pro phone was a great hit in Indian markets, especially for its aggressive pricing, keeping it below Rs 25,000.

For this year, many tech fans and followers were excited about the next successor, and that’s when CMF dropped a bombshell.

Many tech enthusiasts started sharing concerns about this announcement, for which Akis Evangelidis, the co-founder of CMF, took over the X, citing “raising memory prices” as the main reason behind shelving the launch of the new successor, possibly the CMF Phone 3 Pro.

Akis strongly emphasised their true vision towards being proud of what they ship to end users, and instead of compromising on the specification, their team decided not to launch a new phone this year. The co-founder did promise that CMF will continue to launch other products as per their decided timeline.

Over and above, he has emphasized a new product category, hinting that CMF might bring a completely fresh new product for 2026.

He ended his statement assuring that the London-based parent company, Nothing, will continue to launch phones in the coming year. This news comes exactly at the time when Nothing started teasing their mysterious new “B series product lineup”.
Also Read: CMF Headphone Pro Launches in India: Price and Specifications

What’s the Reason Behind the Rising Memory Prices?

The recent adoption of AI and the developments behind building data centers to cater to huge user bases resulted in an increase in the pricing of components like RAM, memory storage devices, and much more.

The usage is not only limited to external data centers, but also smartphones with AI capabilities do need a lot of RAM processing, which again contributes to an increase in demand and results in an increase in price.

This increase in pricing has resulted in the budget mobile phone makers being in a bottleneck situation to bring new smartphones.

The phone launches are shelved for this year as per the announcement, so if the memory price goes down by next year, we can expect CMF to announce something new for their fans.

The memory price doesn’t affect the existing lineup, where even now we can still buy the existing CMF Phone 2 Pro via Flipkart. The 8GB + 128GB variant is selling for Rs 18,999, and the 8GB + 256GB variant is selling for Rs 20,999.

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FAQs

WIll CMF launch CMF Phone 3 Pro

As per the latest confirmation by CMF’s co-founder, CMF has completely scrapped its plans to launch CMF 3 Pro this year due to raising memory prices.

What are the latest CMF Phone 3 Pro leaks?

The phone was going through it intialy development phase, and right in the middle of its development, the smartphone maker dropped a bombshell, announcing to scrap the development of CMF Phone 3 Pro, hence the phone is officially cancelled now.

WhatCMF Phone 2 Pro price in India?

Despite the decision to scrap the Phone 3 Pro, CMF still continues to sell their existing Phone 2 Pro in India, starting for just Rs 18,999 for the 8GB + 128GB variant, and the 8GB + 256GB variant is selling for Rs 20,999.

Should I Wait for the CMF Phone 3 Pro or Buy a Phone 2 Pro?

CMF Phone 3 Pro is officially cancelled, citing issues with raising the memory costs impacting the development. However, the current best-selling budget phone, the CMF Phone 2 Pro, is still selling online and is still among the best phones under Rs 25,000.