A Gimbal Phone Experiment With Promising Results
Honor has released a limited-run 'Robot Phone' in China that features an integrated, miniaturized three-axis gimbal for camera stabilization. While the technology is innovative, the device is currently restricted to the Chinese market due to high production costs.
Why it matters
Represents a significant hardware innovation in smartphone photography, potentially setting a new standard for mobile content creation.
It makes sense, but it also shouldn’t work.
Mat Smith for Engadget In an era of hugely popular gimbal cameras like DJI's Osmo series, not to mention countless smartphone gimbals, Honor's Robot Phone is an ambitious attempt to combine that stabilization technology with the phone itself — no peripheral needed. Its experimental new flagship phone is honestly less of a robot and more of a gimbal phone, but that would have been a terrible name.
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