Honor Has Radically Reinvented the Phone for the Robot Age. I Played With It and It’s Wild
Tech > Mobile > Phones Honor Has Radically Reinvented the Phone for the Robot Age. I Played With It and It’s Wild I attended the launch of Honor's Robot Phone in China. I'm so glad this bold device is actually going on sale.
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- ▪I Played With It and It’s Wild I attended the launch of Honor's Robot Phone in China.
- ▪I'm so glad this bold device is actually going on sale.
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Tech > Mobile > Phones Honor Has Radically Reinvented the Phone for the Robot Age. I Played With It and It’s Wild I attended the launch of Honor's Robot Phone in China. I'm so glad this bold device is actually going on sale. Katie Collins Principal Writer Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer.… Read full bio Katie Collins Principal Writer Read full bio August 12, 2026, 7:31 am ET 5 min read I played with the Robot Phone in China at its official launch. Katie Collins/CNET When Chinese phone brand Honor first teased the concept of its Robot Phone last year, I thought it sounded too outlandish to be real and too good to be true. The device it was proposing occupied the center point in the Venn diagram of my interests in robotics and unconventional phone design.
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