Honor has introduced what it’s calling the “Robotic Telephone,” an idea machine with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted digital camera that unfolds from the cellphone’s rear and might shoot images and movie video in any path.
The cellphone — thus far solely seen in CGI kind in a teaser video, with no glimpse of actual {hardware} simply but — seems to be like a typical, albeit thick, smartphone. As a substitute of an Honor brand it bears an alpha, representing the corporate’s “Alpha Plan” company imaginative and prescient, and the principle giveaway that one thing’s up is the chunky digital camera module, cut up into two elements.
From right here a digital camera arm unfolds with a cartoonish giggle (it… actually does giggle, not less than within the video), revealing that the principle digital camera can flip as much as take selfies, but additionally to shoot from quite a lot of positions and angles, seemingly shifting below its personal path. That may make this a extra superior successor to the likes of 2019’s Asus Zenfone 6, which flipped its major cameras up and over to take selfie pictures.
It seems to be for all of the world just like the mini gimbal digital camera on high of the DJI Osmo Pocket, although Honor’s video wish to give the impression that it’s been imbued with sufficient intelligence to border images, soothe infants, and gaze in astonished wonderment on the stars above.
“With the Robotic Telephone, Honor envisions the long run cellphone as greater than only a device,” the corporate wrote in a press launch. “It turns into an emotional companion that senses, adapts, and evolves autonomously like a robotic, enriching its customers’ lives with love, pleasure, and knowledge.”
We’ll discover out extra in regards to the Robotic Telephone — and perhaps even get the possibility to see it within the flesh — when Honor reveals extra at Cellular World Congress subsequent spring.
The Robotic Telephone was Honor’s “Another factor…” announcement on the finish of a extra typical launch occasion for Honor’s two Magic 8 flagship telephones, which go on sale in China this month and can launch internationally earlier than the top of the yr.