Honor’s Robot Phone is better than a gimbal in a phone has any right to be

The Robot Phone takes pop-up cameras to a full caller level.

The Robot Phone, which launches contiguous successful China, doesn't dependable similar a bully thought - and not lone due to the fact that it's not really a robot. Instead it's a regular Android smartphone with its main camera installed connected a compact gimbal limb that unfolds from the phone's rear. Cramming the equivalent of a DJI Osmo Pocket wrong a smartphone sounds similar a large mode to get the worst of some worlds, but aft an hr of testing, I'm cautiously optimistic that Honor has made this Frankenphone work.

This is simply a smaller gimbal than you'll find connected DJI's compact Osmo Pocket enactment - Honor claims it's the smallest successful the world. It inactive makes the telephone bulkier than nary …

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