Honor’s Robot Phone is better than a gimbal in a phone has any right to be
The Robot Phone, which launches today in China, doesn’t sound like a good idea — and not only because it’s not actually a robot. Instead it’s a regular Android smartphone with its main camera installed on a compact gimbal arm that unfolds from the phone’s rear. Cramming the equivalent of a DJI Osmo Pocket inside a smartphone sounds like a great way to get the worst of both worlds, but after an hour of testing, I’m cautiously optimistic that Honor has made this Frankenphone work.
This is a smaller gimbal than you’ll find on DJI’s compact Osmo Pocket line — Honor claims it’s the smallest in the world. It still makes the phone bulkier than normal, at 9.6mm thick (not counting the chunky camera section itself) and weighing 248g. Only the Samsung and Huawei trifolds are bigger, and my first impression was that the phone felt oddly dated as a...
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