Dreame’s New Phones Include A number of the Gaudiest, Most Interesting Phones I’ve Seen in Years

It’s positively not April Fools’ Day. Dreame, the corporate finest identified for robotic vacuums, confirmed off three new fashions of its Aurora smartphone at its Dreame NEXT occasion in San Francisco.

All of the telephones, which the corporate beforehand introduced in China in March, have flashy designs. But Dreame has some attention-grabbing, sometimes cheesy concepts about what it desires to convey to the trade with its new telephones, together with magnetic modules that add performance and bedazzled, textured patterns in a luxurious model that, at instances, make it appear to be a very totally different cellphone.

The normal Aurora is essentially the most normal-looking cellphone. It has a huge, OnePlus 13-like round digicam bump on the high of its bottom and is available in a number of choices that aren’t only a single colour however have patterns, like a jade inexperienced, granite-like one which the corporate saved exhibiting.

During its presentation, Dreame talked about just a few specs, like a 200-megapixel digicam and 8K video, however didn’t get extra particular, at the very least in regards to the large digicam. It additionally hung out on the cellphone’s connectivity, which the corporate says will get related sooner and keep related extra persistently than competing smartphones. We’ll see!

Then there’s the Aurora Nex, the mannequin with magnetic, MagSafe-like equipment. The Nex mounting spot replaces the digicam bump, so should you purchased it, it appears you’d be giving up a built-in rear digicam. In its stead are 4 totally different modules.

There’s the Action Camera Module, which provides a 50-megapixel sensor with (presumably) optical picture stabilization and 0.1-second autofocus. The Telephoto Module has a 50-megapixel sensor with 20x magnification and LOFIC sensors, a know-how that permits large dynamic vary HDR pictures in a single publicity quite than requiring multiples stitched collectively. The Satellite Connection Module appears to be like like a clean river pebble and has LED lights exhibiting its present connection power. And final is the Agent Module, which has a shiny, curved show that Dreame stated is “designed to support [the] user without constantly demanding attention.” The firm additionally confirmed one other module that regarded like a cooling fan, much like the MagSafe equipment which were pitched to cellphone players for years.

It’s a neat thought, though I query the selection to supplant the built-in digicam module. It’s not that it wouldn’t be helpful, however I’ve performed round with digicam lens equipment like these from Moment, and one factor I rapidly found is that I simply received’t carry them with me. Then once more, Dreame’s digicam module is self-contained and presumably can be higher than what present ones do: placing lipstick on the pig of tiny smartphone sensors. I’d love to listen to precise photographers’ impressions as soon as the Aurora Nex cellphone is out on this planet.

Finally, Dreame confirmed off the Aurora Lux, a luxurious, excessively bedazzled model that is available in 5 totally different variants with intricate designs that may look wildly totally different from each other, to the purpose of wanting like totally different telephones totally. One of the telephones, the Axiom Geometry, even regarded like punched-up variations of the Google Pixel cellphone. Each of them has its personal identify: Luxe Loop Sanctuary, Imperial Totem, Golden Age (which has a giant clock the place the digicam ought to be and appears how I might’ve anticipated the Trump Phone to), Regalia Shield, and Axiom Geometry.

When Dreame was completed exhibiting the telephones off, it took a transparent shot at a number of premium smartphones, exhibiting a colourful Aurora cellphone in opposition to a backdrop of iPhones, Samsung Galaxy telephones, and extra as dim, grey slates.

The firm additionally confirmed off its Aurora OS 1.0, which it says is self-developed and constructed on Android, in keeping with a consultant. It appears to be like… a hell of lots like Apple’s iOS 26 Liquid Glass design language, right down to the frosted glass buttons with edge highlights and customizable lock screens with clocks that fill half the display screen or tuck behind a photograph’s foreground topic.

Obviously AI shall be part of the working system, too. Dreame stated it’s going to characteristic AI with reminiscence and the power to make solutions primarily based in your private context—once more, mirroring Apple speaking factors—though the corporate didn’t go into how any of this works. Is it cloud-based? Local? What about privateness? These are all open questions at this level.

After the announcement, I acquired to take a look at the telephones and though I couldn’t choose up any of the square-ish fashions under, there have been others that had been clearly one other firm’s telephones, with Dreame’s Aurora-style accoutrements slapped on the again. (A consultant instructed me these had been simply there to point out off the design of the OS.) There wasn’t a lot to do there; I may swipe round, which was clean, but when I went any deeper than the lock display screen or the principle residence display screen, I used to be clearly simply inventory Android. That stated, as within the presentation, what I noticed actually regarded identical to iOS 26.

Speaking with representatives close by, I used to be instructed the cellphone has no set launch date nor pricing. Guess we’ll simply have to attend slightly longer, however primarily based on the very unfinished mock-up of Aurora OS 1.0, I’d say don’t maintain your breath.