{"id":82413,"date":"2025-10-15T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82413\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:30:08","slug":"honors-robot-phone-concept-features-a-fold-out-camera-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82413\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor\u2019s Robot Phone concept features a fold-out camera arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Honor has announced what it\u2019s calling the \u201cRobot Phone,\u201d a concept device with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from the phone\u2019s rear and can shoot photos and film video in any direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The phone \u2014 so far only seen in CGI form in a teaser video, with no glimpse of real hardware just yet \u2014 looks like a typical, albeit thick, smartphone. Instead of an Honor logo it bears an alpha, representing the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/614005\/unveiling-the-alpha-plan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAlpha Plan\u201d corporate vision<\/a>, and the main giveaway that something\u2019s up is the chunky camera module, split into two parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">From here a camera arm unfolds with a cartoonish giggle (it\u2026 really does giggle, at least in the video), revealing that the main camera can flip up to take selfies, but also to shoot from a variety of positions and angles, seemingly moving under its own direction. That would make this a more advanced successor to the likes of 2019\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/8\/15\/20807440\/asus-zenfone-6-review-flipping-camera-battery-android-specs-features-price\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asus Zenfone 6<\/a>, which flipped its main cameras up and over to take selfie shots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It looks for all the world like the mini gimbal camera on top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24152949\/dji-osmo-pocket-3-opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DJI Osmo Pocket<\/a>, though Honor\u2019s video would like to give the impression that it\u2019s been imbued with enough intelligence to frame photographs, soothe babies, and gaze in astonished wonderment at the stars above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWith the Robot Phone, Honor envisions the future phone as more than just a tool,\u201d the company wrote in a press release. \u201cIt becomes an emotional companion that senses, adapts, and evolves autonomously like a robot, enriching its users\u2019 lives with love, joy, and wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">We\u2019ll find out more about the Robot Phone \u2014 and maybe even get the chance to see it in the flesh \u2014 when Honor reveals more at Mobile World Congress next spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Robot Phone was Honor\u2019s \u201cOne more thing\u2026\u201d announcement at the end of a more typical launch event for Honor\u2019s two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/799808\/honor-magic-8-pro-launch-china-specs-release-date\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magic 8 flagship phones<\/a>, which go on sale in China this month and will launch internationally before the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Honor has announced what it\u2019s calling the \u201cRobot Phone,\u201d a concept device with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[203,61,60,202,43,981,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-82413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phones","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}