Smartphones have plateaued. There’s barely any innovation left in phones. Bring back the old days when phones had character. I am sure you may have heard that modern smartphones are losing their sense of innovation, with changes becoming increasingly incremental while phone prices are shooting through the roof. However, there are still some exceptions – not from America or South Korea, but surprisingly, from China.
A brand named Honor is taking a risky bet on a smartphone with a pop-out camera gimbal. It’s nicknamed the “Robot Phone.” After months of teasing and first showing off the prototype at CES in Las Vegas in January, the smartphone debuted in China last week and is already making a lot of noise in tech circles, and for all the right reasons.