It offers another option from the ‘brick’ type phones many parents have turned to, allowing children to access social media and messaging if their parents agree, but with extra layers of safety inbuilt.
Finnish phone company Human Mobile Devices (HMD), which also makes Nokia handsets, developed the phone in response to widespread concerns from parents about standard smartphones.
Designed especially for children, creators said the Fuse handset, available with Vodafone and backed by the government, is not just a new model of phone but a whole new category.
