Dreame, a Chinese language producer finest identified for its robotic vacuums however with ambitions to do rather more, says it’s making smartphones now. I’m undecided I consider it.
The corporate confirmed off two telephones at its personal Subsequent occasion, which occurred in California this week, although each had beforehand been revealed in China in March. Neither telephone has really launched, although — in China, the US, or elsewhere — and the corporate has revealed solely a handful of specs about both.
Aurora Nex LS1 is the extra attention-grabbing of the 2, but additionally the much less believable. It’s a modular smartphone with a magnetic attachment level the place the rear digital camera would usually be. Dreame has revealed 5 totally different modules that may be connected at that time: a triple digital camera that apparently features a 1-inch-type sensor and a 115mm equal telephoto lens; an motion digital camera; a fan; a satellite tv for pc communications module; and a “Sensible Agent Module.”
We’ve seen modular telephone designs earlier than, however that is closest in strategy to the model Tecno confirmed off at MWC this yr. That telephone was solely an idea gadget, although; Dreame is not less than implying that the Nex LS1 is an actual product that may actually go on sale.
Dreame’s second telephone is the Aurora Lux, although calling it a single telephone is a little bit deceptive. That is actually a sequence of various telephone designs, some fairly radically totally different from one another, all unified by a garish sense of luxurious. Some are coated in leather-based; others seem plated in gold. Many are plastered with gems. One appears to have an analog clock constructed into the rear digital camera island. And whereas most have matching round digital camera designs, a number of are fully totally different, with the cameras sitting individually and flush with the rear, or separated from the remainder of the telephone by a Pixel-esque digital camera bar. In all, Dreame’s press launch from the Chinese language launch occasion claims that it has 29 totally different variations of the Aurora Lux, a quantity so comically massive that I refuse to consider the corporate can severely manufacture them.
Elsewhere Dreame has claimed digital camera capabilities together with a 200-megapixel sensor and help for Lofic — a brand new kind of HDR processing thus far solely seen on the Honor Magic 8 Professional and Xiaomi 17 Extremely. It’s not clear which of the 2 telephones these specs apply to, although, and I’d be as impressed as I’d be stunned if Dreame was actually dedicated to such highly effective digital camera {hardware} on its first telephones. Is a robotic vacuum firm actually able to launch digital camera {hardware} that outclasses Apple and Samsung, the primary true modular telephone, and 29 totally different variations of a luxurious, gem-encrusted handset, all from scratch?
Each of the telephones will reportedly run Dreame’s personal Aurora AIOS, “a proprietary working system designed round proactive service slightly than passive response.” Sure, it’s an Android pores and skin with a load of AI tacked on.
Dreame hasn’t confirmed when or the place both telephone will launch, however has stated that AIOS will launch within the second half of 2026. Except it intends to launch the software program as a obtain for different gadgets, that presumably means the primary Dreame {hardware} will launch in the identical time-frame.
The 2 telephones had been only one a part of an eclectic Dreame launch occasion that additionally featured a rocket-boosted electrical automobile, a laundry robotic, and a TV with transferring audio system. Not less than Dreame is aware of the way to dream large.
