After months of teasers, HMD finally announced its Barbie-themed flip phone. The device is more or less a gamified Nokia 2660 Flip but also includes a number of software tweaks and a major styling makeover.
As you might expect from a collaboration, pink plays a big part. The phone comes with a pink removable 1,450mAh battery, a pink USB-C cable, a matching cleaning cloth, and a few more accessories. These include two replaceable backs, a beaded phone strap, attachable phone charms, and Barbie stickers.
The HMD Barbie Phone has a 2.8-inch main display and a 1.77-inch cover display. It is powered by a Unisoc T107 chipset with 64MB of RAM and 128MB of storage that is expandable up to 32GB via a microSD card slot. It has a single VGA (0.3MP) camera, Bluetooth 5 connectivity, a headphone jack, and a USB-C port for charging and data transfer.
On the software side of things, most markets will be covered by the S30+ operating system, though the US version will run on KaiOS instead. HMD has extended the personalisation to the phone’s user interface, with custom Barbie icons, wallpapers and ringtones. The Barbie phone will also get a digital wellbeing tip, a Barbie Meditation app and self-care reminders.
The HMD Barbie phone has a price tag of $129/€129/£99 and it’s available for purchase in most countries worldwide starting today, with the US version coming out in October.