Barbie’s hot pink flip phone is coming to the real world this summer

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Should you have been questioning when manufacturers will lastly cease attempting to money in on the Barbie craze, the reply is, by some means, not but. HMD (or Human Cell Units), which has been making Nokia telephones for the previous few years, introduced for MWC that it’s partnered with Mattel to launch an official Barbie Flip Cellphone this summer time. It’ll be pink, clearly, with a splash of “sparkle.”

Aesthetically, it sounds so much like the unique scorching pink Motorola Razr of the aughts. However whereas that cellphone finally bought rebooted as a smartphone for the period of recent foldables, the Barbie cellphone is conserving issues fairly primary. It’ll be a characteristic cellphone, not a smartphone, with HMD advertising and marketing it as an adjunct geared towards “model, nostalgia and a much-needed digital detox.” HMD hasn’t revealed a lot else about it but, like pricing or precise photographs, however the firm says it plans to unveil the Barbie Flip Cellphone at MWC, so we’ll probably see extra of it because the week unfolds.

Most individuals is probably not able to ditch their smartphones totally simply but, however in case you’re on the lookout for a burner, that is most likely one of many cutest you possibly can get.