United Kingdom, March 3 -- The world's first "safe" smartphone will be able to detect and block harmful content before it reaches children.

The new Fusion X1 device has been co-designed by parents as part of the Better Phone Project collaboration with HMD (Human Mobile Devices) in a bid to stop youngsters being subjected to upsetting content online.

HMD's chief marketing officer Lars Silberbauer said: "It's not a silver bullet but it's a start to hopefully give people an option where they can pick something different."

senior vice-president James Robinson added: "It's not an application that sits on top of the device that the kids can find a workaround for. We're baking it into the operating system. It's not an application that can be ...