HONOR used Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week to lay out quite a lot at once. There’s a new flagship foldable, a tablet, a laptop, and then two things that sit in slightly different territory: a concept device called Robot Phone and the company’s first humanoid robot. Here’s what was actually announced and what it means in practice.
Robot Phone: A Concept Worth Watching
Let’s start with the headline-grabber. Robot Phone is being described as “a new species of smartphone,” which sounds like marketing but is at least partially grounded in something real. The device physically moves. It uses a 4DoF gimbal system, housing a micro motor small enough to fit inside a…