News & Reviews:   Sharp RoBoHon

This week Huawei dominated the news with their latest and greatest Huawei Mate 9 and Porsche Design Huawei Mate 9 smartphones to go with a Huawei FIT smartwatch as well. Xiaomi managed to slip in their Redmi 4, Redmi 4A and Redmi 4 Prime smartphones while Olympus announced their OMD E-M1 Mark II DSLR will be going on sale in December 2016. The Meizu Pro 6S and Meizu M5 were officially announced while the Samsung w2017 flip phone officially arrived in China.

Yesterday, SHARP Mobile Malaysia and Commtiva Technology launched their SHARP Z2 and M1 smartphones and we managed to get some hands-on time with them and SHARP's robotic brand ambassador, Robohon. Check them out below along with some hands-on videos, our first impressions and their various tech specs.

We've certainly come a long way in terms of smartphone technology with personal assistants like Siri and Google Now that we can command with our voice. How about a walking talking smartphone in the shape of a bipedal robot that not only listens to you and makes voice activated calls but also recognizes your face and talks back? This is the main idea behind the Sharp RoBoHon which offers smartphone features and functionality in a robot body.