HMD Key is official with barebones specs and low price

HMD has launched a new low-end smartphone, the Key. It has a 6.52-inch 576x1,280 60 Hz LCD touchscreen with 460-nit peak brightness, the Unisoc 9832E chipset, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable storage, and a 4,000 mAh battery with 10W wired charging support.

So it is as barebones as they come, in fact it runs Android 14 Go, presumably because trying to pair normal Android with 2GB of RAM would be even more catastrophic. It's been promised to receive two years of quarterly security updates and nothing else.

HMD Key official images

The phone has a single speaker, an 8 MP rear camera, a 5 MP front-facing camera, Bluetooth 4.2, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, a USB Type-C port, and it's IP52 rated for dust and splash resistance. It will be offered in Midnight Black and Icy Blue. It measures 166.4 x 76.9 x 8.95 mm and weighs 185.4 g.

With these specs you'd expect it to be cheap, and it kind of is, launching at £59 in the UK. It should also spread to other markets very soon, with Australia and New Zealand in the first batch.

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Reader comments

Yeah I know I am joking, I seriously wouldn't entertain the idea of an HMD phone period, the company is junk as is their phones.

Now this is something that shouldn't exist. While the apps we use have become RAM and Storage hogs and quite unreasonably so, 2 GB RAM is just...idk, evil? This is exactly why so many people have poor opinion of Android phones, despite ther...

  • NokiaRingTone

I totally agree about the e-waste and money-laundry. They also still pay the same person they paid to promote Nokia and gas1ight and mock its critics to do the same here.