Introducing Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition

Natalie ✨

It’s finally here. And yes. It really glows in the dark. 🧪

Back in March, we announced that we would be inviting our community to redesign Phone (2a). What we didn’t tell you was that the final designs would actually be adapted for Phone (2a) Plus.

Months and months of work behind the scenes has lead to our first co-created product. And we’re proud to be sharing it with you today, alongside the five community members who made it happen, in our latest Community Update! Read on for details on how to buy one.

Here is the final work by our winners.

Stage 1: Hardware Design by @Astrid and @Kenta

Stage 2: Wallpaper Design by @Andres_123

Stage 3: Packaging Design by @Ian_H_Simmonds

Stage 4: Marketing Campaign by @Palmix Art 🇮🇹

As of today (30th October 2024) you can register your interest for a chance to purchase Community Edition. If you’d like to get your hands on one of the 1000 units available worldwide, read on carefully for detailed instructions and sale dates based on your region.

Europe / Japan - An invitation link is required to purchase Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition on nothing.tech. You can r egister your interest here - purchase links will be sent via email from November 12th. All community members who participated in The Community Edition Project will be part of the first wave of people to receive an invitation link; we will send an invitation link to the email address that you used for your submission. Note that, in Japan, Community Edition will be modelled on Phone (2a).

Middle East - You can register your interest via Instagram @nothingarabia (registration link in bio). After registering, and based on your position in the list, one of our retail partners in the region will get in touch with you with instructions on how to place your order. We will process registrations on a first come first serve basis, so the earlier you register, the higher the chances to be in our first wave of invites. Shipments will start on November 12th.

India - Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition will be sold via Flipkart. You can now register your interest here. On November 12th, we will share a Flipkart link to a first group of community members, prioritising those who have participated in the Community Edition Project. The earlier you register, the higher the chances to be in our first wave of invites.

South East Asia - Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition will be available through selected partners in each of our operating countries on November 16th. There will be only 25 devices sold per country on a first-come, first-served basis. Please refer to the complete list below:

Malaysia - Crossover
Singapore - Limited Edt
Thailand - Carnival
Philippines - Nothing’s Official Store on Shopee (Stay tuned for release date)

US / Canada / Mexico - Community Edition is not available through the US Beta programme

Taiwan / Korea - Community Edition is not available

Price and Specs

EU/UK: Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition (12GB+256GB) - £399/€429/€449

India: Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition (12GB+256GB) - ₹ 29,999

Japan: Phone (2a) Community Edition (12GB+256GB) - ¥55,800 (including tax)
(in Japan, Community Edition is based on Phone (2a), maintaining FeliCa support)

Drops & Events

🇬🇧 Nothing Store Soho, London - 16 November 2024
There will be 50 devices available on a first come first served basis. 1 device per customer. An invitation code is not required to purchase at this drop.

🇮🇳 India, Delhi - 23 November 2024 [Stay tuned for the exact location]
There will be 50 devices available on a first come first served basis. The specific location will be shared soon. 1 device per customer. An invitation code is not required to purchase at this drop.

🇩🇪 Sveta Art Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany - 2 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
A community event to celebrate the launch of the Community Edition, featuring a guest who will share behind-the-scenes insights about the Community and surprise giveaways. Devices will not be sold at this event.

🇨🇭 Fame Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland - 9 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30
A community event to celebrate the launch of the Community Edition, featuring a guest who will share behind-the-scenes insights about the Community and surprise giveaways. Devices will not be sold at this event.

We might be adding more locations along the way, so stay tuned!

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A huge thank you to everyone who got involved with the Community Edition Project this year. Whether you participated by submitting a concept for any of the stages, or voted for another community member’s design, this project would not have been possible without all of you!

Shout out to all of our stage winners, and the Nothing staff they worked with to make their concepts into a reality.

Let us know in the comments what you think of the final product, and if you have an ideas on what we should create next with our community… ⬇️

tanxtr3m3

Natalie ✨
wait wait so
im confused but
are there only 1000 units available and after that its gone forever so ya just gotta be lucky or sum?
will it release to the common public with idk more than 1k units at some point?

Ealesy101

Natalie ✨ All community members who participated in The Community Edition Project will be part of the first wave of people to receive an invitation link

This is a lovely touch!

Very excited to see this model in person and for the wider tech Community to celebrate these achievements. Bravo to all of the participants of the Community Edition, bravo to the winners. But, most importantly, bravo to the Nothing Team. A very brave and very bold project to attempt, let alone achieve and produce something SO special and unique.

Who is gonna try and grab one? 👀🔥

RohitPakalapati

Natalie ✨ Best community update yet—huge thanks to the team! The Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition is here, limited to 1,000 units. Shoutout to @Rahul and @RapidZapper for the snake widget, can’t wait to use it! #NothingCommunity

freshj1ve

Natalie ✨

Congrats to the community and the Nothing team for creating something truely unique & desirable.

But riddle me this.. if it’s a “community edition” then it shouldn’t be limited just 1000 units, kind of defeats it’s “community-ness” does it not? 🤔

Also, I don’t see Australia on the list of countries (I’m sure there’s other countries that are not listed as well).. does that means it’s not avaiable? Edit: Sorry, just read that “We might be adding more locations along the way, so stay tuned!”

drewlipps

Congrats to all who contributed to this community project! Pretty cool to see this all come together. Though it’s not cool that this project excluded the US beta program… 🫤

drewlipps

tanxtr3m3 correct it’s a limited launch with exclusive 1000 units. Similar to how Nothing launched phone 1 initially. Only 1000 units and that’s it.

Natalie ✨

tanxtr3m3 just 1000 units 🙂

DAVINDERPATHANIA

tanxtr3m3 you are correct. Kindly increase your production size 1000 pc are very less . Especially for India

tanxtr3m3

drewlipps rrahh i dont think i’ll get one then i should just order the ordinary 2aplus instead
no glowy back for me 😔

drewlipps

Ealesy101 if only I could 🫠 crazy it’s not available for US BETA or in larger quantities given it was community focused, yet eliminates parts of the community lol

Excited to see those that can get one unbox and share their thoughts.

LuisManuelUrbinaAmador

Natalie ✨

Ealesy101 Congratulations on the creation of this phone, it’s what we need, something original, unique and special, it’s a shame they will only sell 1,000 units of it because I saw it as an option to change from Samsung to Nothing, because the truth is that a normal 2a plus doesn’t catch my attention like this phone.

AlexisGarza

Ealesy101 I definitely will get one if I get the invite link 🙃

Ali Fakhruddin

You know, Nothing Firefly could have been an interesting name for this one. But man it looks beautiful. Hope some units reach to Dubai. We are a few here but dedicated community in this region. Congratulations to the entire team on making the dream come true.

tomkarbowski

Congrats to everyone involved in this process. The final product looks awesome, really want to get my hands on this. Will this ever come to the USA? Really want to get this one.

Ealesy101

drewlipps - probably an issue with US Bands or something? - It does suck that not everyone will be able to enjoy the celebration of the Community.

Let’s hope that this is merely the start of a wonderful tradition of Community engagement and co-creation! 🔥

tanxtr3m3

Natalie ✨ are they gonna send the invite link to exactly 1000 people or everyone and whoever gets it first gets it?

zygerboy

That’s really cool looking phone. Congratulations to the team! Fantastic work!

Also, Thank you for making that Snake Widget! Can’t wait to make the high score 😃

drewlipps

zygerboy excited for snake! Reminds me of the old Nokia days!

drewlipps

Ealesy101 regular 2a plus was available and works great on a few US carriers lol just sucks to see a community project and Nothing just eliminates the US beta community. I understand limiting the production due to costs etc. to 1000 units but that also sucks for a growing community and often just leads to insane resale markets. Hopefully those signing up that do get a chance to get one are passionate community members and not just resellers capitalizing on limited qty releases like this.

I’m certainly excited to see how this community grows long term and as the community grows, I really hope to see Nothing become more inclusive of their community holistically expanding these opportunities to everyone versus a select few of their community members. Just feels like their target markets financially are always their go to and the rest of the community is alienated. Maybe if they said this in the initial community project details it would have been more transparent but dropping this as a limited exclusive and only for select markets, isn’t really a “community” edition…

vovan-v

It’s very impressive design! And congrets to all the people that makes it happen 👏

Sharath_0-8

It came out really better than I expected it to be. Though I loved every design choice of Nothing, I was a little worried how a radium integrated back would work but you guys pulled it off amazingly. With this, my trust in Nothing’s design has increased ten fold. Congratulations team Nothing and the Community edition winners.

But as it’s only 1000 units let’s see if I can get my hands on it or not…

tanxtr3m3

freshj1ve I wholeheartedly agree they need to make more units so everyone can get one
I would’ve bought the 2aplus a month ago if they had told me community edition would be limited to only 1000 units

spencercap

I’m feelin’ lucky 🤞

freshj1ve

tanxtr3m3 not sure if they just want to create more hype or what the deal is. Just dissapointed to see it’s limited to only 1000 units, so that means that fans miss out or even worse people (not fans) buy them to resell for a profit. 😔 It doesn’t feel very “community edition” at all, maybe “limited edition” is better name for it.

tanxtr3m3

drewlipps tbh even if the actual passionate community members get one they’ll still end up reselling it when a collector offers them an absurd amount of money :/