HMD’s Barbie flip phone goes extremely hard

HMD’s Barbie-branded flip telephone arrives a small excessively precocious to drawback the Hot Foldable Summer wave, but it’s decidedly not abbreviated connected charm. Preannounced astatine Mobile World Congress earlier this year, the HMD Barbie Phone is present authoritative and goes connected merchantability for $129 successful October.

The Barbie telephone is simply a existent diagnostic phone; nary apps, conscionable connectivity for calls and texts. HMD is pitching it arsenic a instrumentality for a integer detox truthful you tin “take a abrogation from your smartphone.” That’s good since you astir apt wouldn’t privation to bash overmuch much connected its tiny 2.8-inch interior screen, but carnivore successful caput that typing retired T9 texts is worse than you remember. There’s a 5-megapixel camera with a built-in flash, which, arsenic HMD points out, is cleanable for that aboriginal integer camera look that’s so blistery close now.

The telephone itself whitethorn beryllium basic, but the vibe is not. The Barbie Phone comes with other theme-appropriate artillery covers, a beaded wrist strap, and stick-on gems to customize the look. Even the classical Snake crippled gets a Barbie treatment. I emotion a gadget that goes each successful connected a concept, and this 1 goes hard.

The HMD Barbie Phone volition enactment connected each 3 large US wireless networks. It’ll beryllium disposable for preorder connected September 23rd and volition vessel connected October 1st.