Note that the first step of this process is for the protective panel to slide out of the way to the right. This panel normally sits above the gimbal and protects the elaborately articulated mechanism.<\/p>\n The \u201crobot\u201d is a 3-axis gimbal, similar to a DJI Osmo Pocket, for example. It has a wide range of motion, which allows the phone to track objects moving around it and also adds stabilization if you are using it on the go.<\/p>\n
Honor is still keeping details under wraps, e.g. we don’t know anything about the sensor inside the camera module. The company has offered some hints as to what features will be enabled by this, e.g. a star tracking mode.<\/p>\n Naturally, this camera can be used for selfies as well as video calls \u2013 the gimbal can track you even if you walk all the way around the room. That\u2019s cool and all, but Honor has bigger ambitions than a fancy webcam.<\/p>\n The goal is to create something that can observe our world and even interact with it to some extent \u2013 promo videos show that our little robot friend will have a lot of personality.<\/p>\n
And, yes, we have to rely on promo videos<\/a> for now \u2013 what we have in front of us is a non-functioning demo unit. We should see the robot in action when we attend the MWC in a couple of months, though.<\/p>\n The Honor Robot Phone can be used in two main orientations \u2013 standing upright (either in your hand, in your pocket or on a stand) and lying face down. This allows the gimbal to flip up and do its thing (you don\u2019t need to worry about leveling the phone; the gimbal will take care of that).<\/p>\n As for the rest, we should note that the phone has two other cameras that sit to the right of the gimbal. We don\u2019t have any specs for them either, but the three modules should be some variation of wide, ultra-wide and telephoto.<\/p>\n
The two additional cameras are fixed in place and will be used for regular smartphone-style photo and video shooting. They also get covered up by the sliding protective panel, so we\u2019re guessing that the gimbal and cameras can\u2019t be used simultaneously.<\/p>\n This brief encounter with the Honor Robot Phone left us even more curious \u2013 the tiny gimbal is an engineering marvel, but how much actual utility is there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have seen many unusual smartphone designs over the years, but the Honor Robot Phone just might be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-221867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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