One thing appears odd about Nothing’s new 3.5mm earbuds

Abstract

Nothing introduced the ‘Ear (3.5 mm),’ a set of wired earbuds with a 50-meter cable and three.5mm jack.
Following earlier years’ joke bulletins like Nothing Beer (5.1%) and the Nothing Telephone 2a Micro, the Ear (3.5mm) is unlikely to be something greater than an April Fools’ Day joke.
None of Nothing’s smartphones, together with the CMF Telephone 1, characteristic a 3.5mm headphone jack.

April 1st within the tech world is akin to the plot of the Purge motion pictures, albeit with out the violence. For at some point, firms get to do and say the craziest stuff on-line, with all the overall guidelines surrounding product bulletins happening the drain.

Following final 12 months’s Nothing Telephone 2a Micro ‘announcement,’ which got here after 2023’s Nothing Beer (5.1%), the London-based cellphone maker is now teasing yet one more fantastical addition to its April 1 lineup.

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After teasing a picture of a 3.5mm audio jack on X (Twitter) simply yesterday, alongside the textual content “get able to tangle,” Nothing right now introduced the Ear (3.5mm). Yep, 3.5mm wired earbuds.

There is no approach we’re believing this to be something aside from an April Fools’ Day prank, contemplating none of Nothing’s units — not even the CMF Telephone 1 — have a 3.5mm headphone jack. Oh, and get a load of this: the Ear (3.5 mm) has a 50-meter cable. That is the dimensions of a typical Olympic-sized swimming pool.

Think about the Nothing Ear Open, then connect a backyard hose-sized wire to it

An image of Nothing's 50 meter long 3.5mm wired Nothing Ear (3.5mm).

Supply: Nothing

The opportunity of Nothing really promoting that is slim, however by no means zero. The Ear (3.5 mm) could possibly be a really limited-edition accent that Nothing intends to promote as a joke.

Should you give the picture above a superb look, the earbuds are primarily the Nothing Ear Open, albeit with a (very lengthy) wire hooked up. Alternatively, the entire marketing campaign might simply be a nod to the great ol’ wired earbud period and a playful April Fools’ joke — a really well-produced joke with high-quality imagery and movies to be particular.