HMD has just confirmed that it’s planning to launch a Barbie flip phone, and a customizable smartphone too. Unfortunately, the details are quite scarce, as neither will launch at MWC 2024. That’s where this info came from, though.
HMD will launch a Barbie flip phone this summer
Do note that this Barbie phone will be a feature phone, not a smartphone. That device is coming later this year, in July, to be more exact. So you can expect a summer launch for this one. We don’t know anything else about it. HMD did release the image below, though.
It’s not exactly difficult to guess that this will be a pink-colored smartphone. That’s also something that the other image HMD shared reveals, as you can see below. Everything is blurred out, but those four devices are likely the products that are coming. Once again, the summer launch is mentioned.
The company will also announce some sort of a customizable device
The other device that the company teased is some sort of a customizable device. That will be a full-fledged Android smartphone, though. It’s referring to this device as the HMD Fusion.
That smartphone will arrive a bit later on, in July 2024. HMD did say that you’ll be able to swap out its shells, and thus change its clothes for various occasions, basically. Android Authority snapped some examples of those shells, you can see them below.
The toolkit for the HMD Fusion has also been released, you can check it out here. It contains design files an software integration information. That’s basically all we know at this point.
I personally am hoping that magnets will be a part of the equation here, but that is still unknown. These will be the very first devices to launch under the HMD brand, instead of the Nokia brand. HMD Global has decided to switch things up, and ditch Nokia.
HMD has just confirmed that it’s planning to launch a Barbie flip phone, and a customizable smartphone too. Unfortunately, the details are quite scarce, as neither will launch at MWC 2024. That’s where this info came from, though.
HMD will launch a Barbie flip phone this summer
Do note that this Barbie phone will be a feature phone, not a smartphone. That device is coming later this year, in July, to be more exact. So you can expect a summer launch for this one. We don’t know anything else about it. HMD did release the image below, though.
It’s not exactly difficult to guess that this will be a pink-colored smartphone. That’s also something that the other image HMD shared reveals, as you can see below. Everything is blurred out, but those four devices are likely the products that are coming. Once again, the summer launch is mentioned.
The company will also announce some sort of a customizable device
The other device that the company teased is some sort of a customizable device. That will be a full-fledged Android smartphone, though. It’s referring to this device as the HMD Fusion.
That smartphone will arrive a bit later on, in July 2024. HMD did say that you’ll be able to swap out its shells, and thus change its clothes for various occasions, basically. Android Authority snapped some examples of those shells, you can see them below.
The toolkit for the HMD Fusion has also been released, you can check it out here. It contains design files an software integration information. That’s basically all we know at this point.
I personally am hoping that magnets will be a part of the equation here, but that is still unknown. These will be the very first devices to launch under the HMD brand, instead of the Nokia brand. HMD Global has decided to switch things up, and ditch Nokia.