Harlowe’s new Sol 5 Spectra smartphone light will enhance the standard of your images and selfies or aid you set a dramatic temper. It encompasses a related extending and swiveling design as Harlowe’s unique Sol 5 gentle, however as a substitute of simply primary brightness and shade temperature changes, the brand new Spectra provides full-color LEDs so you may choose considered one of 36,000 completely different hues utilizing both a contact panel on the again or a related smartphone app.
The Sol 5 Spectra is launching right now in Asia, Europe, and Australia for $199 — a big step up from the unique’s $79 price ticket. Nonetheless, because of Trump elevating tariffs on Chinese language items as much as 145 p.c, Harlowe is suspending the US launch of the Sol 5 Spectra. “As of right now’s place with tariffs, we’re optimistic that the sunshine will launch within the US this Spring,” Harlowe spokesperson Kiran Karnani advised The Verge. “We’re doing all the things in our energy to not elevate our costs because of the tariffs.”
Like the unique, the Sol 5 Spectra attaches to the again of any smartphones that has a Qi2-compatible magnetic mount, or has been upgraded with the magnetic adhesive rings that Harlowe contains. The corporate compares its dimension to a compact make-up mirror, however at 1.26-inches thick and weighing 154 grams, you’re positively going to note the Spectra hanging off the again of your system.
The sunshine can be utilized whereas folded flat in opposition to the again of your system, offering further illumination when taking pictures together with your telephone’s most important cameras. But it surely additionally swivels and is connected to a brief extending arm so the sunshine will be repositioned to face you, enhancing selfies.
The Spectra’s brightness, hue, and shade temperature (shifting between hotter and cooler tints of white gentle) will be adjusted utilizing a contact panel on the again, nevertheless it’s not a display screen. If you would like to have the ability to dial in settings with extra accuracy, the Spectra makes use of Bluetooth to connect with Harlowe’s cellular app, which offers extra exact changes utilizing shade wheels, sliders, and precise percentages.
Its 1,000mAh battery is nice for as much as 90 minutes of illumination at full brightness, which is 220 lumens of sunshine. There’s additionally a lift mode that briefly doubles the brightness to 440 lumens for 30 seconds, however which can cut back the Spectra’s total battery life.
The Sol 5 Spectra Customary Equipment features a magnetically-attached frosted dome that diffuses and softens gentle whereas additionally utterly eradicating blue gentle, which the corporate says “enhances the standard of sunshine for self-portraits.”
It’s also possible to go for a dearer $339 Sol 5 Spectra Creator Equipment, which incorporates the frosted dome in addition to two interchangeable magnetic Magic Lenses and 5 Magic Plates that create further static lighting results like patterns and textures.