I Danced With Honor's Robot Phone and It Complimented My 'Shiny' Hair

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After a day of traversing the Mobile World Congress show floor, I was feeling more than a little disheveled. I was about to film a video, and was worried that I wasn't putting my best foot forward, but Honor's Robot Phone disagreed.

"What do you think of my hair?" I asked it. The pop-up camera perched atop ...