Honor's Robot Phone has launched in China with a 4-DoF gimbal camera and the first ARRI color science pipeline built into a smartphone. Here's what's inside, and what it costs. To be totally honest, we were rather skeptical of the Honor Robot Phone when it was first announced. But, following a rollout path that has taken in everything from MWC 2026, Cannes, and the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, it launched yesterday in China. And above and beyond what we still can’t help thinking of as a bit of a gimmick in the shape of its 4-DoF integrated gimbal camera, it is the first smartphone to feature ARRI color science in its image processing pipeline. ARRI's first smartphone So, let’s start there. The main camera supports 10-bit ARRI LogC3 recording in a dedicated ARRI Cinema mode, combined with ARRI Wide Gamut 3 and built-in, real-time-previewable ARRI Looks. Honor says footage can go straight into the likes of DaVinci Resolve with ARRI LUTs applied as part of a "complete mobile capture-to-post-production workflow." Harald Brendel, ARRI's Director of Image Science, has said that the two companies have calibrated the phone so that it can use the same LUTs as an ALEXA and thus produce “very similar” images. There is a lot more to an imaging pipeline than just that though, and as yet we don’t know the details of bitrate or measured dynamic range (Honor claims 14 stops). Perhaps more importantly, Honor has confirmed the ARRI technology will extend into the upcoming Honor Magic9 Series, which is a far more straightforward, conventional smartphone and is liable to be the one that really introduces ARRI color science into the mass smartphone space. Camera and gimbal details The Honor Robot Phone has three cameras: a dual 200 MP system featuring a 200 MP, 1/1.28-inch,