Honor details Robot Phone cameras ahead of launch
Ahead of its long-anticipated debut, Honor held a dedicated event in China where it detailed the cameras inside its Robot Phone.
As the first device in the partnership with legendary German cinema camera brand Arri, the Robot Phone brings several firsts. These include native Log-C3 video encoding, LUT color grading which is processed on the device and a dedicated Cinema mode which replicates the look and feel of Arri cinema cameras. Honor also revealed that the Robot Phone features over 100 patents.
The star of the show is the 200MP main camera attached to a three-axis gimbal. The main cam features a 1/1.28-inch size sensor with an f/1.6 aperture and utilizes Honor’s in-house developed image signal processor (ISP) – the Yuguang H1.
Alongside the new ISP, Honor used a custom gimbal motor which is said to weigh just 2.6 grams. To put that number in perspective, Honor claims the motor is 65% smaller than typical gimbal sensors while offering 35% higher torque density.
The Honor Robot Phone also brings a 200MP periscope and a 50MP ultrawide module. Outside of the impressive cameras, the device is expected to pack a 6.3" to 6.4" screen, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip and a 6,000mAh battery. We’ll likely see more details emerge in the days leading up to the Robot Phone’s unveiling on August 12.
Reader comments
- Krystle
- prQ
And they said they gave up on pop-up cameras (which were great, at least on my Xiaomi 9T) because they had too many moving parts. Isn't this too many moving parts? And why have a hole in the screen, if the camera can rotate wherever you want?
- Anonymous
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The selfie can be used when the gimbal is tucked away in the back of the phone. But the gimbal would be great for video conferencing, especially if it can follow the person's face.
