Parental control depends on a subscription

It is Sunday, February 2, and that means one thing: that the Mobile World Congress begins. The doors have not yet been opened, but the brands have begun to make presentations. One of them is Global HMD. The brand, which until relatively little manufactured nokia mobilesnow signs the smartphones with their own name, HMD, and it has been seen in the city to launch a new batch of products. One of them is a mobile for young people. And yes, it comes tied to a subscription.

HMD Fusion X1. That is the name that HMD has given its new terminal, a device that has been developed in collaboration with Xplora. This brand may be familiar, since it is known for its Smart Watches with GPS for children. The company has not revealed its specifications or mentioned anything about the price, but it has commented that its key point (parental control) depends on a monthly payment.

HMD Fusion X1 | Image: Xplora

Parental control (payment). Leaving aside the technical characteristics, the Quid of this terminal resides in the Xplara subscription, whose price starts from 4.99 euros per month. According to HMD, this subscription “offers parents a total control over the experience of use of the smartphone of their teenage children (…) while offering a device for which young people can be excited.”

What does it include? In HMD’s words, for 4.99 euros a month, parents can customize access to the internet applications. According to the company, this “allows parents to choose to restrict social networks and internet navigation or limit them.” Likewise, continuous monitoring of the location in intervals of 20 seconds with safe areas, emergency calls, low battery alerts and remote access to the device for parents is included.

HMD Fusion X1 | Image: Xplora

A “school mode” has also been added that “guarantees that distractions are reduced to a minimum during school hours blocking specific applications and functions when necessary.” All that, of course, can be controlled remotely from the parents’ phone.

And more security. HMD has also announced a collaboration with Safetoneta system that offers “offers protection on the device based on artificial intelligence, automatically detecting and blocking the harmful content before it reaches the user, without depending on external applications that can be eluded.” This will be released in summer, thus being the first brand to do so.

Images | HMD, Xplora

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