A New Humanoid Phone From Sharp; Creepy But Useful
There has been an announcement from Sharp Corp. regarding the launch of a small smartphone that will react to voice commands and can also show movies on a wall. RoBoHon looks like a robot and has a screen that shows it be descended from the cell phone.
There has been an announcement from Sharp Corp. regarding the launch of a small smartphone that will react to voice commands and can also show movies on a wall. RoBoHon looks like a robot and has a screen that shows it be descended from the cell phone. The company, based in Osaka, has said that as well as the monthly fee of around 980 Yen there will be a purchase cost of 198,000 Yen.
Sharp Executive Yoshisuke Hasegawa explained that there is a vision for the company, and this is to put artificial intelligence into their electronic items. He went on to say that this is the first in the series of products being produced under the name “Kokoro.”RoBoHon is 19.5cm tall and was designed by Tomotaka Takahashi. It comes with a projector as well as a camera and the 2” touchscreen is used in the same way as a smartphone. Added to this, it can be utilized just by being spoken to thanks to voice recognition. It has not all been plain sailing as on two occasions there was no reaction while a demonstration was taking place but it was able to both take a picture and read out an email as a result of a voice command.
A sim card can be used so it will be possible to connect to mobile networks and this will incur an additional cost of 650 Yen and 2,280 Yen to receive between 1GB and 5GB of data and the option to add a call plan.
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Owen Castellanos
Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.
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