The Robot Phone is Honor’s approach to an AI-first device, and the company teased the somewhat unsettling concept last month. Even though users were promised a better look at MWC 2025, the company decided to show the phone off a little early, and it’s no less wild than you’d expect.
Honor unveiled something it called the “Alpha Plan” in October, and with it, a debut device that would incorporate AI that bridged the gap between human and code. The phone utilizes a gimbal camera that tightly packs into the back of a device, which looks similar to Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro.
The subsequent teaser video touted a device with a mind of its own, and its own anthropomorphic way of showing emotions using an XYZ motor assembly. The teaser film had all the makings of a Disney film about an unexpected friendship between AI and human.
Like Wall-E, but pointedly existential.
Digression aside, Honor’s Robot Phone is an interesting concept, but likely one that would be incredibly difficult to pull off well. Prior to showcasing more at MWC 2025, as Honor had announced, the company decided to unveil the device during the Honor User Carnival in China (via GSMArena).
The phone is clearly in prototype form, but the featured gimbal is shown in two states – tightly packed into a camera island, and extended to its action mode. The phone is also noticeably thick, given that the USB-C port seems to be swallowed by millimeters of phone on each side. That isn’t quite so unexpected, considering the star feature can only fold up so tightly inside.
Honor seems to have also dropped the Alpha Plan logo from its Robot Phone concept. This could be because of its pre-production nature, or it could be that the logo was a little too similar to the Sony Alpha logo photographers and videographers have come to know for years. In any case, only a couple of demo units have a printed logo near the bottom, but nothing like what was shown in previous assets.
It appears that a black, white, and gold variant of the phone will be available when/if it launches, complete with a faux leather or glass rear panel, depending on the colorway.
There are no further details on when the device could launch, though more teasers may be on the way moving into 2026.
via GSMArena, Squad Leader Huang
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