OnePlus Nord 2 x Pac-Man edition in pictures

(Pocket-lint) - When it archetypal launched the Nord 2 earlier successful the year, OnePlus claimed its telephone offered everything you request successful a phone, without paying apical tier prices. Now, it's backmost with a peculiar edition, and has teamed up with Bandai Namco to motorboat it. 

It's called OnePlus Nord 2 x Pac-Man Edition, and isn't the archetypal clip OnePlus has teamed up with a popular civilization marque to motorboat a peculiar phone. In 2020 it released the Cyberpunk 2077 OnePlus 8T, and earlier that it's launched Star Wars, Marvel phone editions and McLaren F1 models. 

You could accidental that this is thing of a contented for the company, and 1 we anticipation continues, if lone for the novelty of it. 

Unboxing experience

Even the unboxing acquisition with this peculiar variation is antithetic to the modular model. The container is covered successful a Pac-Man themed cardboard sleeve, which - erstwhile opened - reveals a truly colourful ghost-themed interior design. It's fun, and a bully opposition from the subtle achromatic exterior. The telephone container itself features a colourful Pac-Man logo connected the front, and a subtle maze themed signifier each implicit it. See much successful our video below: 

Design 

As you'd expect, the Pac-Man Edition Nord 2 looks and feels a batch similar the archetypal Nord. OnePlus hasn't changed the materials, the signifier oregon the size of the phone. And, looking astatine it from the extracurricular initially, you whitethorn deliberation the plan changes are lone subtle. 

The rear people has a subtle yellowish Pac-Man logo successful the near corner, and if you drawback it successful the close light, you'll besides spot the dots each implicit the backmost that it loves to eat. 

Other subtle changes see the 'OnePlus X Pac-Man' substance printed adjacent the camera module, and the alert slider connected the near borderline has been swapped retired for a vivid bluish one. Just to marque it a spot little plain. 

However, the biggest plan alteration is undoubtedly the 1 you can't spot successful daylight. It's lone if you look truly intimately you mightiness spot a precise subtle maze signifier connected the back. Turn the lights disconnected though, and it becomes clearer.

OnePlus has lone gone and enactment a glow-in-the-dark patten connected the backmost of its peculiar variation phone. One that looks similar a maze, and spells retired the connection 'Nord' successful artifact letters. 

One happening we volition accidental is that the glow-in-the-dark effect isn't each that strong. In bid to get it to amusement clearly, we had to clasp the rear sheet adjacent to our agleam workplace LED lighting for a infinitesimal oregon so, and the brightness fades comparatively quickly. Still, precise cool. 

OnePlus X Pac-Man Software 

Combined with its plan tweaks, OnePlus has besides changed up immoderate of the bundle elements to acceptable successful with the Pac-Man theme, and determination are a fewer things to find successful here. 

When you archetypal powerfulness it up, the telephone volition beryllium acceptable to a Pac-Man theme. That means the fastener surface and location surface wallpaper are Pac-Man inspired, with a chill animated wallpaper acceptable arsenic the default. If you dive into the wallpaper options, determination are a fewer different options to take from arsenic well, but the remainder are each static. 

Then there's the fingerprint unlock animation. The sensor logo is simply a Pac-Man outline successful a ellipse maze, and erstwhile you property it, you'll spot the Pac-Man munching dots and being chased by colourful ghosts.

All the banal pre-installed OnePlus app icons person been themed to look similar pixellated retro games inspired graphics too, and if you driblet down the speedy settings shadiness you'll spot a Pac-Mac silhouette nether the toggles which munches the dot if you swipe betwixt tabs. 

There are a mates of different additions too. Head to the Gallery App, edit a photograph and you'll find Pac-Man stickers successful the stickers sections. What's more, the Pac-Man 256 crippled by the aforesaid developers who made Crossy Road is pre-installed. 

Plug the telephone into its Warp Charger and you'll get an animated Pac-Man graphic connected the screen, and if you usage it agelong enough, you unlock different sticker to usage successful the gallery. 

As you'd expect, determination are besides pre-loaded customized notification and ringing tones, and they're preset arsenic the defaults. So that's kinda fun. For the archetypal fewer times astatine least.  

From a hardware position it's the aforesaid arsenic the modular OnePlus Nord 2. It's 8.2mm thin, and has a 6.43-inch AMOLED show with up to 90Hz refresh rates.

It's powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 1200-AI processor, has 12GB RAM, 256GB retention a 4500mAh artillery implicit with enactment for the ace accelerated Warp Charge 65 flash charging that tin capable the artillery successful a astir 30 minutes. 

The OnePlus Nord 2 x Pac-Man Edition goes connected merchantability from Tuesday, 16 November and volition acceptable you backmost £499 successful the UK. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 15 November 2021.