Honor has finally confirmed the launch date for its anticipated Honor Robot Phone. The company will release the phone — developed jointly with German camera maker ARRI — on August 12. It’s marketing the phone as the world’s first “robot phone.”

The company has already opened pre-orders on its official website. Buyers who want early access must pay a 500 yuan deposit. Paying the deposit only unlocks a special purchase channel; it does not guarantee that a buyer can secure the phone or lock in a specific color or storage option. 

Once the order confirmation period opens, deposit holders can choose their preferred version. After Honor confirms an order, buyers must pay the remaining balance within 24 hours. Since supply is limited, Honor will fill orders in the sequence that buyers complete their payments.

Honor will sell the phone in two colors, Star Trail Silver and Moon Shadow Gray, and two storage configurations: 12GB+512GB and 16GB+1TB.

The phone’s standout feature is a mechanical gimbal built into the top of the device. This four-degree-of-freedom titanium arm uses small motors and takes up 70% less space than typical gimbal designs. 

Users can tuck the arm away for everyday use, then pop it out with one tap for photography. Once deployed, it can rotate a full 360 degrees, track a subject automatically, and adjust framing on its own. Honor rates its stabilization at CIPA 5.5, which should let users shoot steady vlog-style footage without a separate handheld stabilizer.

Honor Robot Phone

On the camera side, the phone carries three rear lenses: a 200MP main sensor with an f/1.6 aperture mounted on the gimbal, a 50MP ultra-wide lens, and a 200MP periscope zoom lens. Honor partnered with ARRI to bring Log-C color profiles and cinematic LUTs to the camera app, along with manual controls like focus lock and white balance lock for creators who edit their footage afterward.

The phone will run on a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip and could also be the first device to carry the core of Honor’s new AgenticOS system.

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