Remember the crazy Honor Robot phone? Well, it's finally coming on August 12, but there's an extensive leak covering most of its specs. One feature looks very exciting, and it's not the gimbal-like folding camera.
Honor Robot Phone specs leak
Leaked specs of the upcoming Honor Robot phone. | Image by Weibo
The leak comes from our good old Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station. In a post on Weibo, the leaker has detailed almost all the hardware specs of the upcoming Robot Phone.
According to the leak, the Robot Phone will feature a 6.3-inch flat LTPO OLED screen with 1216 x 2640 resolution and a crazy 6,800-nit peak brightness, along with an anti-reflective coating, similar to the Galaxy S26 Ultra.
Further down the specs sheet we find a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC and a huge 7,060 mAh silicon-carbon battery with 120W wired charging support.
Honor will have three in-house-developed chips inside — the C1, the E2, and the H1. The first one is a radio frequency enhancement chip, boosting the signal quaility, the E2 is an energy management chip, and the H1 is an imaging chip.
As for the camera setup, the main gimbal-like camera will use a 200MP, 1/1.28" type sensor under an f/1.6 lens. There will be a 200MP f/2.6 periscope telephoto camera with 2.7x optical zoom too.
Finally, the Robot Phone will be available in two memory configurations — one with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage and a 16GB of RAM and 1TB version as well.
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Honor Robot Phone to feature a 6,800-nit screen
Honor teased the Robot Phone at Cannes Festival earlier this year. | Image by Honor
The 6,800-nit screen spec captures the eye, but don't get too excited just yet. Screen brightness is a vague metric, especially when there's no measurement standard among smartphone manufacturers.
OLED screens work like a garden hose; if you squeeze it, you'll get a high-pressure jet. In the case of OLED panels, if you only light up a small portion of the pixels, you'll get more energy into them and more peak brightness.
One display can output 10,000 nits of brightness with only 1% of the pixels in it lit and around 2,000 nits at 100%.
Nevertheless, the 6,800 figure is impressive and will translate into a high-brightness screen. Coupled with the anti-reflective coating, the Robot Phone might turn into a serious Galaxy S26 Ultra competitor.
What's the main idea behind the Honor Robot Phone?
A very special AI companion, capable of mimicking physical body language. | Image by Honor
The Robot Phone is a strange idea. On one hand, Honor wants to offer an AI-packed device, capable of doing all kinds of cool things, beyond normal software integration.
This is where the robot camera comes into play. The Robot Phone is expected to offer filmmaking-grade features, such as intelligent subject tracking, zooming in and out, etc.
On top of that, Honor wants this phone to be more than just a steel slab. The company plans to integrate physical body language — such as nodding, shaking its head (camera), or dancing to music.
Do we really need such a quirky phone?
We do need more quirky phones in a world of boring rectangular slabs. | Image by Honor
I can't wait to test the Robot Phone. And even though its market debut will most likely be overshadowed by the Pixel 11 series launch, we should mark the arrival of one of the coolest phones in the past decade.
What do you think about the Robot Phone? Would you use one on a daily basis, and would you swap your Galaxy S26 Ultra or iPhone 17 Pro Max for one?
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