Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition: Nothing’s new smartphone glows in the dark 46 comments
Image: Nothing
Nothing has announced the launch of its first co-creation smartphone. The Nothing Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition was developed in collaboration with community members and is limited to 1,000 pieces. The special feature: it glows in the dark.
The smartphone as an international community project
The community was invited to participate in the design, from the case and background images to the packaging and marketing campaign. In six months, 900 applications from 47 countries were received. The result is a special edition of the Phone (2a) Plus, which will be available for purchase on Nothing.tech from November 12, very limited to just 1,000 copies. If you want to try your luck, you need to register as soon as possible.
The technical basis of the Nothing Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition remains the Nothing Phone (2a) Plus with MediaTek Dimensity 7350, 6.70 inch AMOLED display, 12 GB RAM and 256 GB flash memory – this has had no influence taken.
Nothing Phone (2a) Plus software:
(when released) Android 14.0 display: 6.70 inches, 1084 × 2412
395 dpi, 120 Hz
AMOLED, HDR, Gorilla Glass 5 Operation: Touch, fingerprint sensor, face scanner, status LED SoC: MediaTek Dimensity 7350
2 × Cortex-A715, 3.00 GHz
6 × Cortex-A510, 2.00 GHz
4nm, 64-bit GPU: Mali-G610 MC4
RAM 1300 MHz: 12,288 MB
LPDDR5 Memory: 256GB 1. Camera: 50.0MP, 2160p
LED, f/1.88, AF, OIS 2. Camera: 50.0 MP, f/2.20 3. Camera: No 4. Camera: No 5. Camera: No 1. Front camera: 50.0 MP, 2160p
Display flash, f/2.20 2. Front camera: No GSM: GPRS + EDGE UMTS: HSPA+
↓42.2 ↑5.76 Mbit/s LTE: Advanced Pro 5G: NSA/SA WLAN: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax
Wi-Fi Direct Bluetooth: 5.3 Location: A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS Other standards: USB-C 2.0, NFC SIM card: Nano-SIM, Dual-SIM Battery: 5,000 mAh, 50.0 W
fixed Dimensions (W×H×D): 76.3 × 161.7 × 8.55 mm Protection class: IP54 Weight: 190 g Price: €429
After the submission period closed and a community vote, the best designs were selected by an internal team, giving the four winners Astrid Vanhuyse & Kenta Akasaki, Andrés Mateos, Ian Henry Simmonds and Sonya Palma the opportunity to work closely with the Nothing team in London. work together to further refine their concepts.
Glow-in-the-dark back and LEDs
The Community Edition design is the most striking, as the smartphone has a glow-in-the-dark back. The back of the Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition is tinted with a phosphorescent material that gives off a soft green glow after exposure to sunlight in dark environments. It does not require any electricity and its operation depends entirely on how long the smartphone has been in the sun. For this, Astrid Vanhuyse and Kenta Akasaki worked with Nothing design director Adam Bates and CMF designer Lucy Birley. In addition, it has three LED light strips around the cameras.
The packaging has also been redesigned and includes reflective elements and a macro cutout of the phone. Designer Ian Henry Simmonds was responsible for the implementation and brought the glow-in-the-dark design to the packaging.
Exclusive digital content
In addition to hardware, the Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition offers exclusive digital content. Andrés Mateos and software designers at Nothing also used AI to create six wallpapers offered as a “Connected Collection” exclusively on the Community Edition.
Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition (Image: Nothing) Image 1 of 8
Availability and price
As mentioned, the Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition will be available in a limited quantity of 1,000 units worldwide and will be sold on November 12 via Nothing’s website. The smartphone has a storage capacity of 12 + 256 GB and will be priced at 449 euros.
Themes: Android Nothing Smartphones Quelle: Nothing
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