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Imagine having your smartphone transform into a mini robot, just like Bumblebee, a robot in a compact car form. That’s what Honor is working on. Different concept phones show up every year. Companies design phones with enormous batteries that can go for days on a single charge even with intensive use. Others showcase devices with new folding styles, rollable devices that can be wrapped around the wrist and many more.
The Chinese company, Honor, has come up with its concept of a Robot Phone, and like all concept phones, it has garnered attention in the saturated market of smartphones. The company showed the new concept in a YouTube video. With those big, pop-out camera eyes, it looks like a miniature Wall-E.
The Robot Phone is described as a revolutionary AI device that fuses multi-modal intelligence, advanced robotics, and next-generation imaging.
A concept with the potential of becoming a reality
The video starts by showing a regular modern smartphone with a huge screen, thin bezels and a thick rear camera layout. Nothing spectacular, but on closer inspection it doesn’t seem so ordinary anymore. The video progresses to the rear camera springing out, like an eye that rotates.
The rear camera is attached to an autonomous arm that allows it to rotate. It springs up above the device’s top lip and is able to shoot photos and videos regardless of the phone’s position. The highlight of Honor’s announcement video was the concept device face down, with the rear camera popping up and turning in different directions.
From the video, we can see that the device has an intelligent mechanical camera. Integrated with AI, the robot phone can frame shots on its own and capture moments to relive later. The video concludes with a caption saying: “See you in Barcelona 2026.”
The Chinese company will give more details about the Robot Phone at MWC 2026 in Barcelona. From the look of it, this concept phone might actually become a futuristic hardware for users.
Author:Obiajulum Ndubuisi
Obiajulum is a tech enthusiast passionate about writing. When she isn’t writing about gadgets, she will probably be playing badminton, watching a movie, or surfing the internet.
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With tech giants producing thinner phones, more companies are joining the thin phone trend. Following Apple’s super slim iPhone Air, Samsung released the ultra-thin S25 Edge, even developing the S26 Edge. But with the slow sales of the S25 Edge, reports show that it has discontinued the slim Edge lineup. Motorola too doesn’t want to be left out.
The company has released the X70 Air in China. The X70 Air is a sleek 5.99mm thick phone with a lightweight of 159 grams. In contrast, Apple’s iPhone Air is 5.6mm thick and weighs 165 grams, while Samsung’s S25 Edge measures in at 5.8mm and 163 grams.
The latest member of the thin phone family, Motorola’s X70 Air, is only available in China for now but will likely expand to the North American market within the next few months. Rumours suggest that the X70 Air could come as the Motorola Edge 70 to be launched in the US, but this has not been confirmed yet.
Motorola’s X70 Air comes in three colour variants — gadget gray, lily pad green and bronze green — in a matte finish. As for strength and durability, the X70 Air has IP68 and IP69 ratings and is resistant to dust and water. This makes it on par with other flagship phones from Apple, Google and Samsung.
Motorola X70 Air specs
The X70 Air packs a 4,800mAh battery with 68-watt fast wired charging support. It comes with a powerful Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 processor and boasts up to 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. It features a 6.7-inch pOLED display with a 1,220×2,712-pixel resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate and a peak brightness of up to 4,500 nits.
The X70 Air has three 50-Megapixel cameras, one in the front and two in the rear. It runs on the latest Android 16, featuring a built-in AI agent and an updated Smart Connect for cross-device integration.
Many phone manufacturers seem to have at least one thin phone model. Even with thin phones being promoted by tech giants, some consumers are still not willing to make the switch, mostly because of scepticism. Others, the downsides such as battery and camera compromises are the reason.
Author:Obiajulum Ndubuisi
Obiajulum is a tech enthusiast passionate about writing. When she isn’t writing about gadgets, she will probably be playing badminton, watching a movie, or surfing the internet.
