After months of teasers and reddish carpet events, the Honor Robot Phone is yet authoritative and it is present disposable successful stores – lone successful China, but you didn’t privation 1 anyway, right? Wait, did you?
The robot-like limb that acts arsenic the gimbal connected this instrumentality (and gives it its name) feels similar the end-stage of popup-camera evolution. It provides stabilization connected the determination and, if you enactment the telephone connected a tripod, it does entity tracking amended than immoderate telephone retired there. And yes, it tin adjacent look guardant for selfies and vlog-style videos.
Honor Robot Phone's gimbal successful action
This teeny, tiny gimbal – it weighs lone 2.6g and is astir 65% smaller than the gimbals connected the DJI Osmo Pocket cameras – is equipped with a amazingly susceptible camera module. The 200MP sensor is simply a ample 1 (1/1.28”) and has a agleam f/1.6 aperture. Even erstwhile the gimbal is retracted, this is 1 reasonably awesome camera – acknowledgment to nary different than Arri, which is best-known for gathering cameras for Hollywood movies. But erstwhile the gimbal extends, the Robot Phone is unsocial successful the smartphone world.
Honor and Arri worked connected adding originative shots similar 180° pans. But this is besides billed arsenic an AI instrumentality – actually, an AI robot. It tin usage the gimbal arsenic its “head” and look around, speech to you, creation and marque expressions (drawn connected the screen). This is powered by the YoYo assistant, which feels a batch much “alive” than the emblematic AI assistants and their disembodied voices.
The gimbal gives the Honor Robot Phone a batch of personality
Going backmost to the cameras, there’s different 200MP sensor connected board, a reasonably ample 1/1.4” sensor successful information that is down the 2.7x periscope lens. There’s besides a 50MP ultra-wide camera with a 122° AF-enabled lens. And you tin usage the 50MP selfie camera built into the surface for those occasions erstwhile you don’t privation to get the gimbal involved.
The Honor Robot Phone has a 6.31” display, but it’s not a tiny instrumentality – it measures 9.6mm heavy (with the gimbal folded) and weighs 248g. It does person a monolithic 7,060mAh artillery (with accelerated 120W wired and 50W wireless charging), which accounts for immoderate of that weight.
And it’s built similar a flagship with a 120Hz LTPO OLED show and a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. The telephone is rated IP54, truthful we wouldn’t instrumentality it for a video sprout successful the rain, but it is good for day-to-day use.
To larn much astir the Honor Robot Phone, work our hands-on review. Again, it’s lone disposable successful China, but if you are there, you tin person the 12GB/512GB mentation for CNY 10,000 ($1,480) and the 16GB/1TB mentation for CNY 13,000 ($1,930). For context, a 12/512GB Honor Magic V6 foldable is besides CNY 10,000. Hey, nary 1 said that cutting-edge tech is cheap.
But would you really bargain 1 if you could? Why – for the camera, for the AI, conscionable due to the fact that you similar cutting-edge tech oregon different reason?
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