What do we make of the HMD Barbie Phone? Long promised, this little flip device was finally released to the public at the end of August 2024. This piece of pink tech comes from a company that’s promised to do its utmost to address the issues of smartphone and social media addiction, courtesy of its ongoing Better Phone Project. HMD’s CMO Lars Silberbauer had previously told us that the HMD Barbie Phone would have no social media functionality; in industry parlance, it’s a ‘feature phone’ (you might otherwise know it as a ‘dumb phone’).
