By Kerry Wan, Editor in Chief / March 1
We’re officially on the second day 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 incarnation of AI in a handset we’ve seen yet, for better or for worse. It’s shaped like a traditional phone, with a slab-like design, but with 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 and more stable recording during video calls. Then, there are some more questionable use cases, like its playful nodding and head shaking (and Honor says it can even dance to music), which give it more personality. Because we all want our phones to have a little more character, no?
Honor hasn’t shared a firm release date for the robot phone yet, but it positions the brand well in an AI hardware space that’s constantly exploring what’s next.
