HMD would develop a child-friendly (smart) phone with the help of parents

HMD, which previously specialized exclusively in Nokia-branded smartphones and dumb phones, has started a new project.

In the company’s initiative called The Better Phone Project, parents are asked for help in developing a smartphone, the use of which, if possible, dispels all concerns related to the use of smartphones by children.

However, there are plenty of these concerns, which are mostly completely based on real foundations, which the Finnish company tries to support with the results of a survey conducted on a sample of ten thousand people in five countries.

The most serious of all concerns naturally concerns the dangers lurking for children on the Internet, at least 75% of the respondents fear their children the most, while almost half of the respondents think that their child’s personality has been changed by the use of mobile phones. Another interesting fact is that nearly two-thirds of parents blame smartphones for their children’s lack of sleep, and 61 percent of them say that since the child has a phone in his hand, he definitely moves less.

At the same time, it is said that there is an increasing demand for digital detox among generation Z users, so HMD obviously hopes that a quasi-enforced screen or social media ban due to parental control will be an attractive feature of the device developed as part of the project. whatever body they end up taking.

Exactly what kind of device HMD can put in the hands of parents compared to or beyond the solutions offered by the platform owners (or specifically Google) is still not entirely clear (although the Skyline presented last week already showed some of this), moreover, if it were not enough, some parents are not at all aware of what their children are doing with their smartphones and that there are tools that could be used to control their use.