TL;DR Earlier this week, HONOR teased a phone with a unique camera gimbal arm.
While the company said we’d see more at MWC, the very AI-looking nature of the video left it unclear how far along this project is.
A new source claims that work on the prototype is 80% complete.
In 2025, telling the difference between what’s real and what’s not can feel like a Sisyphean task. Generative AI tools are becoming more sophisticated every day, and while lots of AI content is still easy to spot, who knows how much you’re missing? Earlier this week we checked out one of the most impressive-looking phone hardware teasers we’ve seen in a minute, but was it even real?
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HONOR introduced a phone with a camera unlike any we’ve seen before, calling it the Robot Phone. The main gimmick is an articulated, multi-axis gimbal arm with a camera on the end, rising out of a sliding panel in the rear camera island. It is a very, very cool idea, but the video that HONOR published to show it off just stank of AI out of every corner:
The problem is that while you won’t have us arguing that it’s not a great idea, with something like this the devil’s in the details — specifically, the hardware implementation. And while it’s no big deal to put together some renders that look good, will that translate to hardware that’s simultaneously robust, lightweight, responsive, and just overall capable enough to deliver on these kind of promises?
It may be months and months before we have a really solid answer to that, as HONOR already told us to expect news about the Robot Phone at MWC 2025 in early March. But far ahead of that, leaker RODENT950 has shared a little gossip about the company’s progress:
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