Honor has introduced what it’s calling the “Robotic Telephone,” an idea machine with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted digicam that unfolds from the telephone’s rear and might shoot pictures and movie video in any course.
The telephone — thus far solely seen in CGI kind in a teaser video, with no glimpse of actual {hardware} simply but — appears like a typical, albeit thick, smartphone. As an alternative of an Honor emblem 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 digicam module, cut up into two elements.
From right here a digicam arm unfolds with a cartoonish giggle (it… actually does giggle, at the very least within the video), revealing that the principle digicam can flip as much as take selfies, but in addition to shoot from a wide range of positions and angles, seemingly transferring underneath its personal course. That might make this a extra superior successor to the likes of 2019’s Asus Zenfone 6, which flipped its essential cameras up and over to take selfie photographs.
It appears for all of the world just like the mini gimbal digicam on prime of the DJI Osmo Pocket, although Honor’s video want to give the impression that it’s been imbued with sufficient intelligence to border pictures, soothe infants, and gaze in astonished wonderment on the stars above.
“With the Robotic Telephone, Honor envisions the long run telephone 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 phones, which go on sale in China this month and can launch internationally earlier than the tip of the 12 months.