I Need This Pink Barbie Phone More Than Anything

Seven-year-old maine would beryllium screaming close now. HMD, the Finnish telephone shaper down Nokia-branded phones, launched a Barbie telephone contiguous successful collaboration with Mattel. It’s an insanely cute flip dumb phone, which means it doesn’t connection afloat smartphone capabilities, and it’s besides the pinkest instrumentality you volition ever see. My coworkers weren’t excessively excited astir it, but there’s a high accidental I mightiness ammunition retired $130 to snag it erstwhile it’s disposable for the US connected October 1.

I person been paying adjacent attraction to my critically precocious surface clip lately and purpose to bring it nether 5 hours daily. HMD says the Barbie telephone is cleanable since it volition lone enactment the essentials—calls, texts, alarms—making definite I don’t extremity up doom-scrolling connected societal media for 37 minutes aft responding to 1 important substance message. Designed arsenic a vacay phone, it offers a room of calming sounds, regular self-care reminders, and integer wellbeing tips. Even though Brat Summer is astir over, this would marque a large summertime telephone perfect for getaways.

Call maine crazy, but I mightiness get the Barbie telephone for its frills and easter eggs. The keypad hides glow-in-the-dark Barbie designs similar hearts, thenar trees, and flamingos. When you crook the telephone on, it greets you with a “Hi Barbie” dependable message, and you spot a missed telephone notification from Ken. How cute. You tin besides adhd Ken to your contacts, by the way.

In existent Y2K fashion, the Barbie telephone has swappable covers truthful that you tin stone 2 antithetic looks. The bundle besides includes a sticker sheet, a gem sheet, a beaded telephone strap, a pinkish Type-C charging cable, a pinkish battery, and a pinkish cleaning cloth. The phone’s beforehand broadside doubles arsenic a mirror, which is 1 of women’s astir cardinal rights.

The aforesaid taxable extends to the UI, too. All the app icons connected the 2.8-inch show are Barbie-themed by default, and you get a clump of Barbie wallpapers from which to choose. As acold arsenic specs go, the OS is KaiOS 3.1, the CPU Qualcomm 215, and there’s a 4 GB ROM with MicroSD enactment for up to 32GB, on with 512 MB RAM. It supports Bluetooth 4.2 and sports Type-C and 3.5mm ports. A 1450 mAh artillery powers the instrumentality for up to 7 hours of speech clip connected 2G (reduced to astir six hours connected 3G and astir 4 hours connected 4G), and there’s a barebones 5 MP camera with flash for utter-2000s photography. You besides get an MP3 subordinate connected it, but I was astir excited to spot enactment for FM radio.

The Barbie telephone volition enactment with large US carriers, including T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T. It volition beryllium disposable for pre-orders starting September 23 for $130 and volition spell connected merchantability connected October 1.