This cute little dancing robot smartphone costs a small fortune

Sharp's RoBoHon is definitely not your normal smartphone. For starters, it's a robot. Secondly, it dances. Can your iPhone or Android phone dance? Exactly.

How much for Japan's quirky robot smartphone? Too much! Sharp's taking pre-orders for RoBoHon at 198,000 yen (about $1,800) with shipments slated for May 26 in Japan. To put that in perspective, you could buy four iPhone SEs and still have some change leftover for a cheap Android phone.

RoBoHon was unveiled at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo last December. The 7.6-inch tall "smartphone" is on par with a midrange phone. It runs Android 5.0 Lollipop and is powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and 2GB of RAM. The lil guy has 16GB of internal storage and a 1,700 milliamp-hour battery. Read more...