The Barbie Cellphone is right here, and it’s very pink, cute, and collectible. Teased by system maker HMD (which stands for Human Made Gadgets today) throughout Cell World Congress 2024, it’s based mostly on a traditional Nokia flip telephone.
It’s packed filled with Barbie-ness, from the Barbie filters within the digital camera app to a missed name from Ken showing on the display screen if you begin the telephone up. Should you’re a Barbie maniac, you’re going to need this telephone.
It is available in a brilliant presentation pack designed like a jewellery field, full with a lift-out tray for storing the enjoyable little extras included with the telephone. You get a cute lanyard with charms like sun shades and a curler boot to connect, Barbie-themed stickers, stick-on crystals for the specifically designed replaceable rear panels, and an additional battery, too. Naturally, the battery pack is pink, identical to the included USB-C cable.
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The flip telephone itself can also be pink, however the entrance panel and display screen double as a mirror, prepared to make sure you look your greatest when utilizing the Barbie filters included within the software program. Whenever you energy up the telephone, you’re greeted by a “Hello Barbie” when it begins up, and a menu system utterly personalized to match the colour scheme (pink, in different phrases), together with customized icons plus a particular Malibu model of the traditional Snake recreation.
HMD guarantees loads of Easter eggs all through the software program, so it’s price exploring. For instance, typing in #227243# on the keypad will make one thing magical occur.
As regards to the software program, within the U.Ok. and Europe, the Barbie telephone makes use of HMD’s S30+ software program, identical to the reissued Nokia 3210, however within the U.S., it would have Kai OS put in. This has to do with region-specific necessities, and whereas it does imply extra apps might be out there, the telephone does miss out on the particular Barbie Easter eggs discovered on the S30+ variations. On the {hardware} aspect, the telephone has a 2.8-inch major display screen and a 1.77-inch outer display screen, Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a VGA digital camera, 4G connectivity, and an FM radio.
HMD says the Barbie Cellphone is “heavy on the nostalgia,” and it additionally reminds us that the function telephone is a part of its efforts to encourage us to make use of smartphones much less. I’m undecided anybody will actually wish to use the Barbie Cellphone this fashion, however there’s little question it’s a enjoyable collectible telephone for followers.
Out there from August 28 within the U.Ok. and Europe for 99 British kilos, it would even be launched within the U.S. round October for $129.
