What you need to know
- Honor has officially confirmed that the Robot Phone will launch globally in Q3 2026.
- The Robot Phone features a gimbal-like camera system that can automatically track movement.
- Honor partnered with ARRI to bring more advanced cinema-style video features to the phone.
Honor’s Robot Phone, which ended up winning one of our best showcase awards at MWC 2026, finally has a launch window.
At MWC, Honor officially showcased the Robot Phone after first teasing it late last year as a concept. Back in Barcelona, the company only confirmed that the phone would launch in the second half of 2026, but it has now narrowed things down further, officially confirming a Q3 2026 launch window.
Honor has been heavily hyping up the Robot Phone ever since its first teaser. We also got to see it in person at MWC, and for those who don’t remember, the Robot Phone features a gimbal-style camera system on the back that can automatically track your movement. It’s almost like having a DJI Osmo Pocket built directly into a smartphone.
In fact, Honor even took the Robot Phone to the Cannes Film Festival’s China Night event to showcase it again. During the event, the company also announced a partnership with ARRI, the German camera maker known for high-end cinema and motion picture equipment. That partnership could mean the Robot Phone ends up bringing some genuinely serious video capabilities.
It’s honestly good to finally see Honor confirming the launch timeline. And with a Q3 launch, the Robot Phone will go directly up against several major devices expected around the same time, including the Pixel 11 series and even Apple’s first foldable iPhone.
We still had a lot of questions around durability and long-term reliability when we first saw the device at MWC, but thankfully, it looks like we won’t have to wait much longer to properly test all of that.
What we still don’t know, though, is which markets the Honor Robot Phone will actually launch in. Considering Honor’s track record, we expect the device to debut in China first and then potentially make its way to global markets later on, if at all.
Android Central’s Take
The Robot Phone was easily one of the wildest things I saw at MWC this year, and honestly, I’m glad Honor has finally given us a launch window. The ARRI partnership just makes this even more interesting.