Android<\/a> phone maker revealed its latest flagship phone the Magic 8 Pro (in China only for now) alongside a much stranger looking smartphone that the firm is calling \u2018Robot Phone\u2019.<\/p>\nAs you can see from the above images and below video, which notably are all CGI and not of a physical device, Honor has stuck a protruding camera arm into the back of a smartphone. When packed away it appears to be a camera through a transparent slider, but it can fully extend out of the casing of the phone and face forward when the phone is placed in a breast pocket.<\/p>\n
The video trailer shows the camera taking in scenes and framing three people for a photo, taking video, giving a woman advice on her outfit, and even weirdly anthropomorphically calming down a crying baby.<\/p>\n
Throughout the camera is given a baby- or even Pok\u00e9mon-like voice as it says \u201caaaah\u201d or laughs. It\u2019s all very strange, especially as this is a teaser and Honor says it won\u2019t fully reveal the device, what it can do or if it is a product that people will be able to buy, until Mobile World Congress in March 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis AI device will not only serve you, but grow with you, sensing, adapting, and evolving through AI,\u201d said Honor\u2019s CMO Dr. Ray Guo on X. \u201cIt marks a pivotal milestone in our Honor Alpha Plan, as we advance toward building a truly global AI device ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Honor announced its overarching \u2018Alpha Plan\u2019 earlier this year, where it promised to link together devices and services with, you guessed it, AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis innovative device will integrate AI-powered multi-modal intelligence, robotic functionality, and advanced handheld imaging capabilities,\u201d Honor said in a press release. \u201cAs a new species of AI device, the Honor Robot Phone will redefine future human-machine interaction and coexistence, positioning Honor at the forefront of AI device innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The firm said the Robot Phone could be \u201can emotional companion that senses, adapts, and evolves autonomously like a robot, enriching its users\u2019 lives with love, joy, and wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you thought folding phones were weird, wait until you see what Honor has up its sleeve for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2596,87998,2306,91225,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-212074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-honor-robot-phone","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-smartphone-news","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}