Nothing is making a glow-in-the-dark phone

Nothing has announced a caller mentation of its Phone 2A Plus featuring a customized glow-in-the-dark plan and packaging created successful portion by immoderate of the company’s “most talented followers.” The Phone 2A Plus Community Edition is the result of a contention held by the company encouraging its assemblage to “build a smartphone of their ain imagination.”

The Phone 2A Plus Community Edition is Nothing’s archetypal “major aviator to co-create hardware,” the institution says, and resulted successful implicit 900 entries from its assemblage customizing everything from its look to however it volition beryllium marketed. The telephone volition beryllium disposable to acquisition starting connected November 12th done Nothing’s website for $399 but is being constricted to conscionable 1,000 units.

The conception for the Phone 2A Plus Community Edition’s updated plan was created by Astrid Vanhuyse and Kenta Akasaki and realized done a collaboration with Nothing’s Adam Bates and Lucy Birley. The phone’s functionality, including 3 airy strips astir its rear cameras, hasn’t changed. But the backmost of the telephone is present tinted with a greenish phosphorescent worldly that volition “emit a brushed glow successful acheronian environments” for hours, Nothing says, requiring conscionable daylight to charge.

The glow-in-the-dark accents are carried guardant to the Phone 2A Plus Community Edition’s new packaging, which was reinterpreted by Ian Henry Simmonds with reflective elements and a macro harvest of the telephone itself.

Inspired by the archetypal phone’s hardware, Andrés Mateos and Nothing’s bundle designers utilized a premix of plan tools and AI to make a caller acceptable of six matching wallpapers called the “Connected Collection” that volition beryllium bundled with the Phone 2A Plus Community Edition. Lastly, Sonya Palma created a caller “Find your light. Capture your light” selling run that volition beryllium utilized to beforehand the Community Edition.

Although this is Nothing’s archetypal effort to enlist its assemblage to assistance plan hardware, the task is reminiscent of a collaboration betwixt CMF (Nothing’s affordability-focused subbrand) and Bambu Lab encouraging CMF Phone 1 users to plan 3D-printed accessories and contraptions that could beryllium added to the backmost of that phone.