I f you’ve ever watched your phone fall in slow motion before clattering on the floor and thought, well, that’s a few thousand Dirhams down the drain—the HMD Fusion might just be your kind of device. This is a smartphone for the clumsy, the careless, and the “how did it end up in the sink?” brigade.
Built by HMD (the company once known for Nokia smartphones) the Fusion is unapologetically modular. Not in a hypothetical, Kickstarter-fantasy way, but with real screws, real access, and real reparability. You can unscrew the thing yourself. Replace parts. Swap bits.
It’s tech made to be tinkered with. The standout feature? Outfits. No, not Zara for phones, we’re talking snap-on accessories powered by six pogo pins on the back. There’s a Gaming Outfit that turns the phone into a full-on controller, and a Flashy Outfit with a fold-out RGB light ring for selfies or, frankly, finding your keys under the sofa.
And for those inclined to hack and tinker, there’s even a developer kit so you can 3D print your own bizarre Frankenstein attachments. A coffee warmer? A spirit level? The only limits are your poor judgment. The Fusion is surprisingly camera-capable, too.
The 108MP main shooter doesn’t churn out megapixel soup for the sake of it, it delivers sharp, balanced shots without the cartoon over sharpening you get elsewhere. Even the 50MP front camera holds its own, especially with the flash ring snapped on. It’s not flagship-tier wizardry, but it’s well above the ‘good enough’ threshold most phones at this price barely crawl over.
Yes, it’s LCD not AMOLED. Yes, the chip inside won’t win any drag races. But if you want a phone that won’t weep every time it hits the floor, or one you can quite literally make your own, the HMD Fusion might just be smarter than it looks.
