Honor's Influencer-Coded Robot Phone Set for Fall Launch in China
Key takeaways
- When Chinese phone company Honor first teased its Robot Phone back at the end of last year, I wondered if the concept would ever see the light of day.
- Honor is set to launch the Robot Phone in the third quarter of this year in China, the company announced after taking the device on a night out at the Cannes Film Festival last week.
- When I saw the Robot Phone working at MWC, it struck me as being part of a trend in which we're starting to see less boring phones come to the fore.
When Chinese phone company Honor first teased its Robot Phone back at the end of last year, I wondered if the concept would ever see the light of day. But after interacting with an early version of the device at Mobile World Congress in March, I became convinced it was really going to happen. Now, it has a launch date -- well, almost.
Honor is set to launch the Robot Phone in the third quarter of this year in China, the company announced after taking the device on a night out at the Cannes Film Festival last week. As for Honor's Humanoid Robot, which also made its debut at MWC? It looks like that might not be quite ready for a full consumer launch just yet.
When I saw the Robot Phone working at MWC, it struck me as being part of a trend in which we're starting to see less boring phones come to the fore. But even amid in a sea of novelty, there's nothing quite like this.