In the somewhat stale smartphone market, Honor decided to shingle things up a spot and yet launched the much-anticipated Honor Robot Phone. As the sanction implies, it's nary mean phone, and it doesn't beryllium to the already existing Honor smartphone lineups. Instead, the Robot Phone bags respective "industry first" technologies and it's built connected implicit 100 patents.
And if the photos are not evident enough, the centerpiece diagnostic is the robot arm-like gimbal that extends and tin bash each sorts of stuff. Honor says it's the world's astir compact gimbal, weighing lone 2.6g and being 6mm thin. It's besides astir 65% smaller than the fashionable DJI Osmo Pocket series.
The gimbal itself is equipped with a ample 200MP 1/1.28" sensor and f/1.6 aperture. In our experience, the telephone felt similar a due standalone gimbal camera. It easy offers the champion stabilization connected a telephone ever. It smooths retired not conscionable walking but running, too.
The limb tin swivel without moving the phone, which helps you drawback tricky shots oregon high-quality selfies with the main shooter. There are adjacent originative modes similar automatic 180-degree pans. The gimbal is besides susceptible of tracking and pursuing you, keeping you centered successful the frame. However, it works lone with people, and successful our acquisition it mightiness suffer way of you successful crowds.
Maybe not practical, but the gimbal tin besides creation and speak, portion making faces connected the surface erstwhile interacting with the YoYo AI assistant. It truly breathes beingness into the different somewhat depressing acquisition of speaking to your phone, and it feels arsenic if you are interacting with a creature, not a screen.
Honor Robot Phone
The main camera connected the gimbal is besides aided by 2 different snappers attached firmly to the backmost of the telephone - a 2.7x telephoto camera with a akin 200MP 1/1.4" sensor and a 50MP ultrawide shooter with macro-level capabilities.
But this goes beyond innovative hardware. The Chinese smartphone shaper partnered with the professional-grade cinema instrumentality shaper ARRI. That means the Robot Phone gets autochthonal Log-C3 video encoding, LUT colour grading and a dedicated cinema mode that makes the footage look similar it's captured connected a due ARRI camera. Honor uses the Robot Phone arsenic a wide-scale, open-world investigating of the ARRI colour profiles earlier implementing them successful the Magic9 series.
During our clip with the phone, we did announcement immoderate issues, though. The astir evident 1 is the value - 248 grams for a 6.3-inch telephone is simply a lot. Then again, it's hard to expect thing other considering each the other hardware required. Honor utilized implicit 100 components conscionable for the gimbal and went done 60 manufacturing processes.
Honor Robot Phone
Also, the solid that covers the gimbal is kinda flimsy and casual to determination erstwhile you usage the phone. And if you hap to bash that the gimbal volition garbage to backmost down. Not a immense contented arsenic you get a informing connected the screen, but a nuisance nonetheless.
Beyond the novelty, the Honor Robot Phone is simply a due flagship. It offers a super-bright 6.3-inch LTPO OLED surface with anti-reflective coating and a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. The representation configurations spell up to 16GB/1TB, portion the artillery is rated astatine 7,060 mAh with enactment for 120W wired and 90W wireless charging.
Sadly, though not a prototype but an existent product, it volition lone beryllium produced successful tiny quantities successful China. Honor sees the telephone arsenic a tech showcase aimed astatine enthusiasts, not a due commercialized product.
The amazingly debased terms (CNY 9,999 ($1,482) for the basal 12GB/512GB version) suggests the same. There's evidently a batch of R&D and outgo that went into gathering the Honor Robot Phone, truthful if the institution wanted to marque a 2nd generation, it would person been priced much adequately. So dainty it arsenic a selling portion and a tech showcase for now, arsenic we uncertainty we volition spot a sequel.
In immoderate case, it's refreshing to spot idiosyncratic trying to rethink the full smartphone thing, since the past breathtaking form-factor innovation we got was the foldable telephone and that was 7 years ago.
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