Honor’s Robot Phone is a bad robot, an interesting camera, and maybe your friend

The friend-shaped phone.

After over four months of teasing, I've finally been able to see Honor's Robot Phone in action. And after all that, it looks pretty legit - just so long as you weren't actually expecting a robot.

The Robot Phone could more accurately be called the Gimbal Phone, though I suspect the company's marketing department would disagree. Its big hardware innovation is a 200-megapixel camera mounted on a gimbal arm, which unfolds from the back of the phone when you need it, and retracts behind a cover when you don't.