Update 30-06-2025 4:50pm ET:Pocket-lint reached out to Nothing and received word from the company that the Phone (2a) Community Edition will not be sold in the U.S. or Canada. Availability details are availablehere. The story has been updated to reflect this information.
Have you ever been in the dark and couldn’t find your phone? Or perhaps just want yourphoneto glow at night? If that sounds like you, this new phone fromNothingmight interest you.
Nothing has announced a new version of itsPhone 2a Plusfeaturing a unique glow-in-the-dark design and packaging created in collaboration with members of the company’s community. The phone is fittingly called the Phone 2a Plus Community Edition.
“From hardware to wallpapers, packaging to marketing, this smartphone has been entirely shaped by the imagination of Nothing’s community,” Nothing said in a press release.
The glow-in-the-dark phone will be available on Nothing’s website starting November 12th. The phone will not be available in the U.S. or Canada. The phone costs £499 (about $520). It’s limited to just 1,000 units, so it could go fast. you’re able to pre-register your interest on Nothing’s sitehere.
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Nothing is back at it again.
The phone’s creation process was done in four stages
Aside from glowing in the dark, the coolest thing about this phone is, without a doubt, how the community helped shape it. Starting with the hardware design, Nothing’s Design Director Adam Bates and CMF Designer Lucy Birley collaborated withAstrid Vanhuyse and Kenta Akasakito help create and bring their glow-in-the-dark phone concept to life. They accomplished this by using a green-tinted phosphorescent material. “This feature is purely analogue, requiring no power source, and can last for hours before gradually fading until it recharges by daylight,” Nothing said in a press release.
For the wallpapers on the phone, Nothing collaborated withAndrés Mateoswho used a mix of AI tools and digital design to help create the “Connected Collection” of wallpapers. The collection features six wallpapers in total.
The last two stages were the box and the marketing campaign. Nothing collaborated withIan Henry Simmonds, who reinterpreted Nothing’s packaging design with his “Less is More” concept." You can see the box in the image above, and it’s pretty cool. Finally, Nothing collaborated withSonya Palma, who created a new “Find your light. Capture your light” marketing campaign for the phone featuring afilmand digital assets to support the launch of the Phone 2A Plus Community Edition.
I think the collaboration Nothing has done here to create this new version of the Phone 2a Plus is really cool, and I can’t wait to see it in action. A glow-in-the-dark phone just makes sense.
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