{"id":24659,"date":"2016-04-13T22:47:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T05:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/sharps-ultra-cute-robohon-robot-phone-goes-on-sale-next-month-for-1800"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:17:54","slug":"sharps-ultra-cute-robohon-robot-phone-goes-on-sale-next-month-for-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/sharps-ultra-cute-robohon-robot-phone-goes-on-sale-next-month-for-1800","title":{"rendered":"Sharp\u2019s ultra-cute RoboHon robot phone goes on sale next month for $1,800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2Z5YIZ24yI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RoboHon, Sharp\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/10\/8\/9477597\/robot-smartphone-japan-sharp-robohon-ceatec\">dubiously useful but definitely adorable<\/a> phone that walks around on two legs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/10\/5\/9459967\/sharp-robohon-robot-phone-japan\">projects you happy images when you\u2019re sad and alone in your bedroom<\/a>, is actually making its way to market. Sharp announced today that the phone\/robot\/thing will see release on May 26th in Japan, with preorders now open. It has a 2-inch screen on its back and runs Android 5.0.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I wrote about RoboHon I expressed hope that Sharp can \u201cget this weird little guy onto the market for a reasonable price.\u201d That, uh, appears to have been difficult; RoboHon is selling for 198,000 yen, or about $1,800, before you get into service fees. But hey, you can\u2019t put a price on true friendship \u2014 I hope to evaluate RoboHon\u2019s conversational skills, punctuality, and Myers-Briggs personality type in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/14\/11428856\/sharp-robohon-robot-phone-price-release-date\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/14\/11428856\/sharp-robohon-rob...lease-date<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RoboHon, Sharp\u2019s dubiously useful but definitely adorable phone that walks around on two legs and projects you happy images when you\u2019re sad and alone in your bedroom, is actually making its way to market. Sharp announced today that the phone\/robot\/thing will see release on May 26th in Japan, with preorders now open. It has a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42546,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24659\/revisions\/42546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}