The Future of Smartphone Cameras is Here With the ARRI x HONOR Robot Phone

The useful part

Well, after months of teasers and reporting, that weird ARRI x HONOR Robot Phone camera thing is now officially alive—in China at least. The companies have issued press releases announcing that the HONOR Robot Phone is now officially available, which they celebrate as the mobile debut of ARRI Image Science and HONOR's gimbal camera technology. To be honest, when it was first announced, this product confused us as it's certainly unique.

How it works

• Set to basically be a smartphone with a built-in gimbal camera, or a gimbal camera with a built-in smartphone, depending on how you look at it, this is a product that is unlike any we've seen before.
• While we'll likely have much more to say and explore with it now that it's officially launched and set to be available to users and reviewers, in China at least, it's also undeniably a bold step for both...
• "The HONOR Robot Phone is an important milestone in ARRI's expansion into Content Creation.
• Together with HONOR, we are translating ARRI's perspective on image quality, color, and visual storytelling into a new category.
• This gives more creators access to greater creative control and a stronger connection between capture and post-production." — David Bermbach, Chief Product Officer of ARRI.

Details worth keeping

Set to be a "new species of smartphone" that integrates key elements of ARRI Image Science and carries a "co-engineered" credit, the HONOR Robot Phone is fully debuted with a range of mobile imaging, AI, and robotic camera technologies and with ARRI LogC3, ARRI Wide Gamut 3, and ARRI Looks.