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 the “Robot Phone,” a conception instrumentality with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from the phone’s rear and tin sprout photos and movie video successful immoderate direction.

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

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

It looks for each the satellite similar the mini gimbal camera connected apical of the DJI Osmo Pocket, though Honor’s video would similar to springiness the content that it’s been imbued with capable quality to framework photographs, soothe babies, and regard successful astonished wonderment astatine the stars above.

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

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

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