@askcatgpt Completely clear phone spotted in San Francisco on May 14…?!? Wtf?????? Link in bio for more deets. (NOT SPONSORED)
Quite a few people thought that it was a new Nokia phone, while one said that it was released by Nokia last October and called it the Nokia Clear Phone. No such phone exists. There were some clever responses, such as the one noting how difficult it would be to find this phone if it went missing. “She’s on a mission from the future,” wrote a TikTok subscriber. “I can see right through this,” joked another.
As it turned out, the product is real and is already sold out. It is called a methaphone and is simply a clear piece of acrylic shaped like an iPhone. The creator of methaphone figured that with so many people addicted to their phones, these people might be able to manage their smartphone addiction by replacing a real handset with something that feels and looks like a real phone in their pockets.
@askcatgpt I’m sending out a batch of methaphones to people who have ideas for (safe) social experiments they’d like to run with them— break it out on the subway? Show it to a 5 year old? Replace your phone for a week? The only catch is that you have to write or document your experience in a post online (e.g. blog post, medium, substack, YouTube, tikTok, Ig, etc) The goal is to keep the conversation going. If you’re interested, fill out the super short survey at the link in my bio! Let’s keep the conversation going! #tech#methaphone♬ original sound – Noah Kahan
The NoPhone Air and NoPhone Zero were later launched along with a model that had a mirror for “selfies.” After selling a rumored 10,000 units over the years, the novelty of NoPhone just faded away in the last year or two.