{"id":83617,"date":"2025-10-16T04:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83617\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:48:07","slug":"honor-is-making-a-phone-with-a-flip-out-camera-on-a-robotic-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/83617\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor is making a phone with a flip-out camera on a robotic arm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most modern smartphones are basically rectangles with a touchscreen on the front and a couple of cameras on the back. Every now and then a phone maker gets the bright idea if introducing a flip-out camera<\/a> that lets the rear camera face forward so that you don\u2019t even need a standalone selfie camera.<\/p>\n

The upcoming Honor Robot Phone takes that idea to its illogical extreme. It\u2019s a phone with a flip-out camera on a robotic arm that lets the camera rotate so that it\u2019s not fixed in one or two positions.<\/p>\n

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Honor hasn\u2019t provided detailed specs, pricing, or availability information yet. But the company has shared a promo video<\/a> that\u2019s nearly 3 minutes long, showing how the phone could be used in different situations, and CNBC reports<\/a> that the Chinese phone maker will share more details at MWC 2026 in Beijing next year, which means the phone probably won\u2019t hit the streets until some time after that.<\/p>\n

Based on the video, it looks like the camera module will be able to change angles to get the perfect shot or keep a person or object in the frame. It will most likely offer gimbal-like image stabilization, but the video also hints at the idea of AI features that could go beyond object recognition and possibly include giving the camera a \u201cpersonality\u201d by allowing it to move in ways that suggest it\u2019s interacting with the user. In one scene it even plays peek-a-boo with a baby. That might just be artistic license for the promo video rather than a promise of features to come though.<\/p>\n

At a time when most smartphones have basically the same design, it\u2019s nice to see a company trying something different. I\u2019m not sure that this is the kind of different we need, but at least it is different.<\/p>\n

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