By Kerry Wan, Editor in Chief / Mar. 1
We're officially on Day 2 of what I'll call “MWC Preview Weekend,” and Honor is leading the news wave today with its AI Vision keynote. There, the company announced several new hardware products, including some fresh information on its wild Robot Phone, which debuted at CES.
The Robot Phone may be the richest embodiment of AI in a handset that we've seen thus far, for better or worse. It's shaped like a traditional phone, with a slab-like design, but features a rotating camera gimbal that extends from the back of the device.
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There are some creative use cases with such a feature, like body-tracking during video calls and more stabilized recording. Then, there are some more questionable use cases, like its playful nods and head shakes (and Honor says it can even dance to music), that give it more personality. Because we all want our phones to have a little more character, no?
Honor hasn't shared a definitive release date for the Robot Phone yet, but it positions the brand well in an AI hardware space that's constantly seeking out what's next.
