Honor’s Robot Phone Concept Features A Fold-out Camera Arm

Have you ever wanted a DJI Osmo Pocket built into your phone?

Honor has announced what it’s calling nan “Robot Phone,” a conception instrumentality pinch an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from nan phone’s rear and tin sprout photos and movie video successful immoderate direction.

The telephone — truthful acold only seen successful CGI shape successful a teaser video, pinch nary glimpse of existent hardware conscionable yet — looks for illustration a typical, albeit thick, smartphone. Instead of an Honor logo it bears an alpha, representing nan company’s “Alpha Plan” firm vision, and nan main giveaway that something’s up is nan chunky camera module, divided into 2 parts.

From present a camera limb unfolds pinch a cartoonish giggle (it… really does giggle, astatine slightest successful nan video), revealing that nan main camera tin flip up to return selfies, but besides to sprout from a assortment of positions and angles, seemingly moving nether its ain direction. That would make this a much precocious successor to nan likes of 2019’s Asus Zenfone 6, which flipped its main cameras up and complete to return selfie shots.

It looks for each nan world for illustration nan mini gimbal camera connected apical of nan DJI Osmo Pocket, though Honor’s video would for illustration to springiness nan belief that it’s been imbued pinch capable intelligence to framework photographs, soothe babies, and regard successful astonished wonderment astatine nan stars above.

“With nan Robot Phone, Honor envisions nan early telephone arsenic much than conscionable a tool,” nan institution wrote successful a property release. “It becomes an affectional companion that senses, adapts, and evolves autonomously for illustration a robot, enriching its users’ lives pinch love, joy, and wisdom.”

We’ll find retired much astir nan Robot Phone — and possibly moreover get nan chance to spot it successful nan soma — erstwhile Honor reveals much astatine Mobile World Congress adjacent spring.

The Robot Phone was Honor’s “One much thing…” announcement astatine nan extremity of a much emblematic motorboat arena for Honor’s 2 Magic 8 flagship phones, which spell connected waste successful China this period and will motorboat internationally earlier nan extremity of nan year.