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TheNothing speech sound 2alaunched before this calendar month to quite positive reviews . If you ’re in the market for a budget Android phone that calculate skilful , performs well , and has a solid camera , it ’s one of the better options available . Now , Nothing is inviting you to help it plan a new interlingual rendition of the phone .
On March 20 , Nothing upload a picture to its YouTube channel announce the company ’s “ Community Edition Project . ” In inadequate , it ’s a raw initiative from Nothing that ’s giving you the opportunity to plan a trade name young adaptation of the Phone 2a .
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What exactly does that mean ? As explained by Nothing CEO Carl Pei , “ Co - creation intend creating something together . And as a product companionship , for the first we ’re bid our community to create a new discrepancy of the Phone 2a together with us . So that includes everything from the design of the product to the packaging to the wallpapers , and also the merchandising campaigns . ”
When Nothing says this is a “ community ” project , it really means it . Anyonecan throw their chapeau in the gang to aid Nothing plan its next translation of the Nothing Phone 2a , and you ’ll have your fortune to do so in just a few short twenty-four hour period .
Submissions for The Community Edition Project will officially open on March 26 . That begins stage one of the project , where you could resign your own ironware design for the next Phone 2a chance variable . The winner of the computer hardware design will “ be given the opportunity to collaborate with our [ Nothing ’s ] London design team to bring their estimate to life . ” Next is the wallpaper pattern stage in May , where you may contrive “ a serial publication of wallpaper to seamlessly integrate with the winning hardware design . ” The winner of the wallpaper degree will have their wallpaper aggregation pre - installed on the Nothing Phone 2a Community Edition .
The packaging innovation form kicks off in June , where community member will have the chance to plan retail publicity for the sound based on the gain conception and wallpapers . Finally , in July , you ’ll be capable to reconcile “ a originative proposal of marriage for the selling of the Phone 2 Community Edition . ”
All of the hardware and computer software specs for the Community Edition will remain precisely as they are on the current Nothing Phone 2a . However , the chance for anyone to put in a new hardware conception for the phone is pretty cool . Nothing shared an lesson of a biotic community - designed Phone 2a var. ( seen above ) , and it look well dissimilar from the current Nothing Phone 2a . It looks like Nothing is willing to go in pretty different design direction for the Community Edition , and that ’s encouraging to see .
If you want to render your own designs for the Phone 2a Community Edition , submissions begin on the Nothing websiteon March 26 .
