Sizzling on the heels of final 12 months’s Barbie telephone, HMD is again with extra area of interest telephones to enchantment to these whose preferences and desires fall exterior of the common iPhone/Android flagship binary.
Some corporations rocked up at MWC 2025 in Barcelona this 12 months with no new telephones to indicate off — however not HMD. It introduced its A-game to the cellular present, with a shed-load of recent merchandise.
HMD, brief for Human Cell Gadgets, is greatest identified for making Nokia telephones. Maybe it is no shock then that the corporate is as soon as once more releasing an replace of traditional Nokia telephone — the 3210 — however this time within the colours of Barcelona Soccer Membership.
The corporate has an ongoing partnership with the elite European soccer group, asserting its first FC Barcelona-themed machine final 12 months. This newest replace to the 3210 contains hidden messages from gamers, customized wallpapers and the traditional cellular sport Snake, this time performed on a soccer pitch.
The HMD Barça Fusion in the meantime is a collector’s version smartphone engraved with signatures from 11 of the membership’s star gamers. HMD additionally guarantees Easter Eggs that may enchantment to followers, and you’ll even be woken up by the voice of one among your favorite gamers within the morning.
HMD’s partnership with Barcelona has resulted in a variety of particular version telephones.
Not a Barcelona fan? Certainly one of HMD’s different telephones may be a greater match for you. The Fusion X1 is the corporate’s first smartphone for teenagers, created off the again of its Higher Telephones Venture — an effort to convey households into the method of designing units.
The Fusion X1 permits mother and father management over youngsters’ telephones with a month-to-month Xplora subscription. This enables mother and father to have management over web searching and social media, along with a “Faculty Mode”. The subscription additionally supplies steady location monitoring at 20 second intervals with secure zones, emergency SOS calling, low battery alerts and distant machine entry — your teen can be thrilled.
The Fusion X1 is a smartphone, however HMD is greatest identified for making function telephones. The function telephone market is declining, however the firm says its defied the general, and final 12 months not solely gained market share however noticed double-digit progress. No marvel then that it is again on the present this 12 months with a handful of function telephones.
Together with the HMD 2660 — a traditional flip telephone — the corporate unveiled two telephones for music lovers. The massive promoting level of the HMD 150 and 350 is their retro really feel, mixed with distinguished audio system, FM radios and lengthy battery lives make them really feel like the right competition telephones. Let’s simply hope no-one makes use of these assertion audio system to play music on public transport.