Hot on the heels of the Barbie phone from last year, HMD is back with more niche phones to call on those whose preferences and needs do not fall from the iphone / ordinary Android binary.
Some companies have swayed at the Mobile World Congress 2025 here in Barcelona without new phones to show – but not in HMD. He brought his game to the mobile show, with a load of fresh products.
HMD, short for human mobile devices, is best known for making Nokia phones. It may not be surprising that the company again publishes an update of the classic phone Nokia – the 3210 – but this time in the colors of Barcelona Football Club.
The company has a continuous partnership with the European football team Elite, announcing its first device on the theme of FC Barcelona last year. This last update of 3210 includes hidden messages from players, personalized wallpapers and classic mobile game snake, this time played on a football field.
The HMD Barça merger, on the other hand, is a smartphone from the collector’s edition engraved with the 11 signatures of club players from the club. HMD also promises Easter eggs that will like fans, and you can even be awakened by the voice of one of your favorite players in the morning.
HMD’s partnership with Barcelona has led to a number of special edition phones.
Not a Barcelona fan? One of the other HMD phones could be better suited for you. Fusion X1 is the company’s first smartphone for adolescents, created at the back of its Better Phones project – an effort to bring families into the process of designing devices.
Fusion X1 allows parents to control children’s phones with a monthly Xplora subscription. This allows parents to control internet navigation and social media, in addition to a “school mode”. The subscription also provides continuous monitoring of the location at 20 -second intervals with safe areas, emergency SOS calls, low battery alerts and remote district access – your adolescent will be delighted.
Fusion X1 is a smartphone, but HMD is best known for making phones. The downloaded telephone market is down, but the company says it has challenged the overall trend, and last year not only acquired a market share, but has experienced two -digit growth. No wonder, then that it is back at the show this year with a handful of phones.
With the HMD 2660 – A classic Flip phone – The company has unveiled two phones for music lovers. The large HMD 150 and 350 sales argument is their retro sensation, combined with prominent speakers, FM radios and a long battery life makes them feel like perfect festival phones. Let’s just hope that no one will use these declarations of declaration to play music on public transport.
