Anyone over a certain age will, at one point or another, have owned a Nokia phone. And if you owned a Nokia phone, you will likely have played Snake on it. After all, there wasn’t much else fun to do on the mobile phones of old. Now, Nothing phone owners can recreate the good ol’ days with a new version of Snake.

Unlike most companies, Nothing enjoys working with its community to bring new ideas to life. Earlier this year, that collaborative approach led to Nothing launching a glow-in-the-dark phone. And now, it has led to the return of one of the most iconic games of the 1990s.

In January, one Nothing Community member posted a selection of concepts for community widgets that could live on the homescreens of Nothing phones. The concepts included an interactive calendar, an FM radio tuner, and a reimagining of the classic Snake game that first appeared on Nokia phones in 1997.

As explained in a post on the Nothing Community, the company was so impressed that it chose to bring one of these concepts to life. And after working with a veteran developer, Snake is the first in what the company hopes will be a set of community widgets.

For the uninitiated among you, Snake is a game that is simple to play but hard to master. In the same way that Tetris is. You play as a snake seeking to grow longer by eating the dots that appear on the screen. The snake is constantly moving, and you have to direct it with screen swipes.

You can play Snake on your Nothing phone by downloading the Nothing Community Widgets app from the Google Play Store. While Snake is the first widget to go live, Nothing hopes to “curate a selection of quality community created widgets and bundle them together into an app”.

While it has already sold millions of phones, Nothing cannot hope to compete directly with the likes of Samsung and Apple. Which is why it needs to differentiate itself from the competition in some way(s). And nostalgia may just be the key to that, alongside working with its community of users.

I’m old enough to have played Snake on a Nokia phone, and I somewhat miss those simpler times before social media and apps for everything turned us all into smartphone zombies. So, if Nothing continues to hit my nostalgic buttons with future widgets, I might be tempted to buy one of its phones.

Anyone over a certain age will, at one point or another, have owned a Nokia phone. And if you owned a Nokia phone, you will likely have played Snake on it. After all, there wasn’t much else fun to do on the mobile phones of old. Now, Nothing phone owners can recreate the good ol’ days with a new version of Snake.

Unlike most companies, Nothing enjoys working with its community to bring new ideas to life. Earlier this year, that collaborative approach led to Nothing launching a glow-in-the-dark phone. And now, it has led to the return of one of the most iconic games of the 1990s.

In January, one Nothing Community member posted a selection of concepts for community widgets that could live on the homescreens of Nothing phones. The concepts included an interactive calendar, an FM radio tuner, and a reimagining of the classic Snake game that first appeared on Nokia phones in 1997.

As explained in a post on the Nothing Community, the company was so impressed that it chose to bring one of these concepts to life. And after working with a veteran developer, Snake is the first in what the company hopes will be a set of community widgets.

For the uninitiated among you, Snake is a game that is simple to play but hard to master. In the same way that Tetris is. You play as a snake seeking to grow longer by eating the dots that appear on the screen. The snake is constantly moving, and you have to direct it with screen swipes.

You can play Snake on your Nothing phone by downloading the Nothing Community Widgets app from the Google Play Store. While Snake is the first widget to go live, Nothing hopes to “curate a selection of quality community created widgets and bundle them together into an app”.

While it has already sold millions of phones, Nothing cannot hope to compete directly with the likes of Samsung and Apple. Which is why it needs to differentiate itself from the competition in some way(s). And nostalgia may just be the key to that, alongside working with its community of users.

I’m old enough to have played Snake on a Nokia phone, and I somewhat miss those simpler times before social media and apps for everything turned us all into smartphone zombies. So, if Nothing continues to hit my nostalgic buttons with future widgets, I might be tempted to buy one of its phones.

Anyone over a certain age will, at one point or another, have owned a Nokia phone. And if you owned a Nokia phone, you will likely have played Snake on it. After all, there wasn’t much else fun to do on the mobile phones of old. Now, Nothing phone owners can recreate the good ol’ days with a new version of Snake.

Unlike most companies, Nothing enjoys working with its community to bring new ideas to life. Earlier this year, that collaborative approach led to Nothing launching a glow-in-the-dark phone. And now, it has led to the return of one of the most iconic games of the 1990s.

In January, one Nothing Community member posted a selection of concepts for community widgets that could live on the homescreens of Nothing phones. The concepts included an interactive calendar, an FM radio tuner, and a reimagining of the classic Snake game that first appeared on Nokia phones in 1997.

As explained in a post on the Nothing Community, the company was so impressed that it chose to bring one of these concepts to life. And after working with a veteran developer, Snake is the first in what the company hopes will be a set of community widgets.

For the uninitiated among you, Snake is a game that is simple to play but hard to master. In the same way that Tetris is. You play as a snake seeking to grow longer by eating the dots that appear on the screen. The snake is constantly moving, and you have to direct it with screen swipes.

You can play Snake on your Nothing phone by downloading the Nothing Community Widgets app from the Google Play Store. While Snake is the first widget to go live, Nothing hopes to “curate a selection of quality community created widgets and bundle them together into an app”.

While it has already sold millions of phones, Nothing cannot hope to compete directly with the likes of Samsung and Apple. Which is why it needs to differentiate itself from the competition in some way(s). And nostalgia may just be the key to that, alongside working with its community of users.

I’m old enough to have played Snake on a Nokia phone, and I somewhat miss those simpler times before social media and apps for everything turned us all into smartphone zombies. So, if Nothing continues to hit my nostalgic buttons with future widgets, I might be tempted to buy one of its phones.