Nothing's first community-driven product is a glow-in-the-dark smartphone

Community creation: British user electronics master Nothing launched a run earlier this twelvemonth inviting nan organization to get progressive successful nan creation of a caller version of nan Phone 2a Plus. Now astir six months later, nan company's first co-created merchandise is fresh to go.

The first shape of nan community project was to set nan colors, materials, and decorativeness of nan telephone to create a caller look. From there, participants were asked to creation caller wallpapers that will vessel connected nan phone. Next up was packaging – Nothing wanted thing caller for nan typical version phone. Last but not least, Nothing tasked nan organization pinch making a trading run for nan device.

Nothing fielded much than 1,000 entries crossed 47 countries during nan creation phase. The extremity consequence is nan Phone 2a Plus Community Edition, which utilizes nan aforesaid halfway hardware arsenic nan original Phone 2a Plus released earlier this year. The item is nan rear of nan phone, which features greenish tinted phosphorescent accents that glow successful nan dark.

The glow-in-the-dark taxable besides carries complete to nan revised packaging, and is moreover reflected successful nan firefly trading campaign. The six bundled wallpapers "interpret organization connections arsenic instrumentality connectors," and look heavy inspired by AI.

The guidelines Phone 2a Plus features a 6.7-inch AMOLED show pinch a 120 Hz refresh complaint that is driven by a MediaTek Dimensity 7350 Pro 5G SoC alongside a Mali-G610 MC4 GPU. It ships pinch 12 GB of RAM, 256 GB of section storage, and a dual rear-facing camera array other a 50-megapixel selfie cam. The handset carries an IP54 standing and packs a 5,000mAh artillery that supports 50W accelerated charging.

Nothing is producing conscionable 1,000 examples of nan co-created phone, making it their rarest merchandise to date. Sales unfastened connected November 12, and it will beryllium first come, first served – though those that participated successful nan task will beryllium fixed priority. Pricing will reportedly beryllium group astatine $519, and you tin caput complete to Nothing's website for much information.