Honor Has Radically Reinvented the Phone for the Robot Age. I Played With It and It’s Wild
When Chinese phone brand Honor first teased the concept of its Robot Phone last year, I thought it sounded too outlandish to be real and too good to be true. The device it was proposing occupied a perfect center point in the Venn diagram of my interests in robotics and unconventional phone design.
Even when I saw a mockup of the phone with its pop-out camera gimbal at CES in January and then an early working demo at MWC in February, I was skeptical that it would actually go on sale. In my decade-plus as a tech journalist, I’ve seen plenty of bright and interesting concepts fall at the last hurdle. I’m always the first to advocate for less boring tech, so I really hoped the Robot Phone wouldn’t be one of them.
On Wednesday, in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, I was thrilled that Honor proved me wrong...
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