New Honor Phone Beats Google Pixel to Cutting-Edge AI Feature

The new Honor 400 series boast a feature that Google hasn't even rolled out to its own phones yet: creating AI-generated videos from still images.

The feature, announced via X on Monday, will roll out with the new phone starting May 22, according to the company.

Honor is known for its affordable laptops, earbuds, wearables, and smartphones. The company's first phone series, the Honor 20, was released in 2019. Its most recent phones are named the Honor 300.

The new image-to-video AI generator is powered by Google's Veo 2 model, as reported by The Verge, and lets you convert still images into five-second videos right in the phone's photo Gallery app.

Honor announced a deeper collaboration with Google on April 15, with an aim to "usher in a new era of intelligent devices." It looks as if that partnership has resulted in an AI feature that even Google's own Pixel phones don't have (yet).

As reported on Retail News Asia, the upcoming Honor 400 is rumored to include a 200 MP main camera sensor, a 50 MP telephoto lens, and a 12 MP ultrawide camera. It is said to run on a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip with up to 16GB of RAM, as well.

While the Honor 400 is slated to primarily launch in the UK, Europe, China, and India, here's hoping it will find enough success to make it to the US soon.