Honor’s Robot Phone Has a Gimbal-Powered Camera for Vloggers

The gimbal-powered 200-megapixel camera isn't the lone camera, either. It's joined by a 200-megapixel telephoto camera and a 50-megapixel ultrawide, not to notation the 50-megapixel selfie shooter. The gimbal has 4 degrees of freedom, and you tin activate it successful the camera app oregon by making a thenar question connected the selfie camera. And since it tin rotate 300 degrees, you tin usage it arsenic a selfie camera too.

The telephone is shockingly airy astatine 248 grams (the aforementioned iPhone 17 Pro is 206 grams). I wholly expected the Robot Phone to beryllium top-heavy, with each those camera components astatine the apical and the monolithic 7,060-mAh silicon-carbon artillery wrong powering the full system. But successful information it’s decently balanced.

A solid screen protects the gimbal camera, and you tin descent it to the close erstwhile you're acceptable to activate the gimbal. Once the camera is out, you tin manually power the gimbal for ultra-smooth video seizure done the camera app, oregon usage preset motions to springiness your clips a cinematic look. There's adjacent dependable power with earthy language, truthful you tin accidental “turn astir for 5 seconds.”

The motorized stabilization successful the camera makes enactment shots—which tin typically look shaky connected accepted smartphones—look amazingly smooth. There are tracking modes arsenic well, specified arsenic a taxable tracker that keeps the selected idiosyncratic successful the framework adjacent arsenic they determination around. You tin ideate however adjuvant that tin beryllium for solo travelers vlogging their mode done a trip.

Some of these features widen past contented creation. For example, the subject-tracking mode works successful video calls, meaning you tin acceptable the telephone up connected a array (Honor includes a lawsuit and a magnetic stand) and the camera tin travel you around. I besides took a radical selfie, and alternatively of taking a mean picture, the gimbal took 3 photos—left, center, and right—and stitched them similar a panorama for a wide changeable of everyone. Quick and seamless.

There's a little effectual and rather gimmicky integration with Honor's Yoyo virtual AI assistant, wherever the gimbal camera acts similar an enigmatic robot with a brace of eyes connected the phone's screen. Ask it to creation to music, and the gimbal camera volition determination to the beat. It tin unreal to beryllium blessed oregon angry, making the due movements to bespeak its mood. The camera besides serves arsenic the AI's eyes; inquire it to picture the country successful beforehand of you, and it'll instrumentality a peek.