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HMD wants to tackle a teenage screen time epidemic

Following on from that TikTok below is a full report from Axel Metz on HMD’s aim to help tackle a supposed screen time epidemic, especially among teenagers.

As such, the company revealed the HMD Fusion X1, a phone made in partnership with smartwatch manufacturer Xplora aimed at teenagers, which will enable parents to remotely enable, disable, or limit access to apps of their choosing via an Xplora subscription.

Now I’m not sure many teenagers would welcome relinquishing control of their phone to their parents, but the idea here is to safeguard young people against some of the darker elements of online and always-connected life.

Read Axel’s full report: ‘The smartphone teens want, with the safety parents desire’: HMD’s Fusion X1 is here to save the TikTok generation.

So here’s an odd turn up for the books: actor Drew Barrymore appeared at an HMD showcase to tease Project Wildflower, which is a mission led by the phone-maker to tackle people spending too much time on their smartphones.

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Honor embraces AI hook, line and sinker

So first up we have a report from Phones Editor Axel Metz on how phone-maker Honor has rebranded itself as an “AI device ecosystem company”. That’s a bit odd but there’s apparently three steps the company plans to take in order to deliver “purpose-built, human-centric AI designed to maximize human potential.”

My read on this is basically Honor will go hard on AI-based tech, and we can expect its new products to contain a host of smart features. For a better and deeper lowdon, I’d suggest reading Mr Metz full report: Honor rebrands as an ‘AI device ecosystem company’ and commits to developing a ‘super intelligent’ smartphone.

Hello! Roland Moore-Colyer, Managing Editor of Mobile Computing here to take you on this live blog journey as it kicks off.

I’m not at MWC this year, with fellow but we have a selection of TechRadar-ians over in Barcelona to soak up all that MWC has to offer. So let’s get into it.