Phone launch season is entering full swing as the mercury rises this summer, with Samsung set to unveil its latest folding phones at an Unpacked event in New York next week. If you really can’t wait that long, one of Android’s newest players will beat Samsung to the punch tomorrow when it is due to launch a highly anticipated new flagship phone.

As teased widely on social media, UK tech firm Nothing will launch the Nothing Phone 3 tomorrow, July 1, at 6pm UK time.

This Android phone is the long-awaited follow-up to the Nothing Phone 2, which was released back in 2023. Since then, Nothing has put out the Phone 2a, 2a Plus, 3a and 3 Pro, before finally getting around to the Phone 3.

Nothing’s phones are known for their bold designs, with all models sporting transparent rear glass or plastic, showing programmable “Glyph” lights and some of the phones’ interiors. But the company is suggesting on its social feeds that the Phone 3 will be different, announcing “We killed the Glyph Interface” in a post on X last month.

Instead, the phone appears to have a new rear display Nothing is calling the “Glyph Matrix”.

Nothing has also posted several close-up details of the Phone 3 without revealing the whole design.

It has also been confirmed the phone will run the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset – not the high-end Snapdragon 8 Elite found on flagship phones from Samsung, OnePlus and Honor.

This could be one of the ways Nothing is keeping the price of Phone 3 lower than its competitors. We won’t know the price of the new phone until the launch event tomorrow, though.

Nothing has promised its fans the Phone 3 will be its “first true flagship smartphone”, with CEO and founder Carl Pei confirming in a video it will cost “somewhere around £800”. The Samsung Galaxy S25 retails for £799.

Some vocal online commenters are questioning if the Nothing Phone 3 can call itself “flagship” without the 8 Elite chipset, but it’s not always about the specs.

I reviewed the £329 Phone 3a and found it punched far above its price point, so it’s very possible the Phone 3 will look, feel and perform like phones from other Android brands that are technically better on paper.

Nothing has also confirmed on X that the Phone 3 will have a 50MP periscope zoom lens, similar to that found on the Phone 3a Pro released earlier this year.

The event is also set to see the apparent launch of Nothing’s first over-ear headphones. The company has released several (excellent) earbuds already, but tomorrow will see its first foray into over-ears, if the hints online are to be believed.

Express.co.uk will have all the confirmed details of the Nothing launch when it happens tomorrow.