Dreame – the vacuum company – has just launched its own phones

Dreame, a Chinese manufacturer best known for its robotic vacuum cleaners but with ambitions to do more, says it now makes smartphones. I’m not sure I believe that.

Company Show two phones At her Next event, held in California this week, though, they were both It was previously disclosed In China in March. However, neither phone has actually been launched – in China, the US, or elsewhere – and the company has only revealed a few specifications about either one.

The Aurora Nex LS1 is the more interesting of the two, but also the less agreeable. It’s a modular smartphone with a magnetic attachment point where the rear camera would normally be. Dreame revealed five different modules that could be mounted at that point: a triple camera that apparently includes a 1-inch type sensor and a 115mm equivalent telephoto lens; action camera fan; Satellite communications unit; And the “Intelligent Agent Module”.

We’ve seen modular phone builds before, but this is the closest to a release Techno appeared at MWC this year. This phone was just a concept device; Dreame at least indicates that the Nex LS1 is a real product that will actually go on sale.

The second Dreame phone is the Aurora Lux, although calling it one phone is a bit misleading. It’s actually a series of different phone designs, some radically different from each other, all united by a flashy sense of luxury. Some are coated with leather. Others appear gold-plated. Many of them are covered with precious stones. One of them appears to have an analog clock built into the rear camera island. Although most have identical circular camera designs, many are completely different, with the cameras sitting separate and flush with the back, or separated from the rest of the phone by a Pixel-esque camera strip. Overall, the Dreame press release from the Chinese launch event claims that this has happened 29 Different versions of the Aurora Lux, which is so comically large that I refuse to believe the company can seriously manufacture them.

Elsewhere, Dreame claimed camera capabilities including a 200MP sensor, and support for Lofic – a new type of HDR processing that has so far only been seen on Honor Magic 8 Pro and Xiaomi 17 Ultra. It’s not clear which phone fits these specifications, and I’d be as impressed as I would be surprised if Dreame really committed to such powerful camera hardware in its first phones. Is a vacuum robotics company really ready to release camera hardware that beats Apple and Samsung, the first true modular phone, and 29 different versions of a fancy, gem-encrusted phone, all from scratch?

Both phones will reportedly run Dreame’s proprietary Aurora AIOS, a “proprietary operating system designed around proactive service rather than passive response.” Yes, it’s an Android interface with a lot of artificial intelligence.

Dreame hasn’t confirmed when or where either phone will be released, but it did say that AIOS will launch in the second half of 2026. Unless you intend to release the software as a download for other devices, this presumably means the first Dreame device will be released in the same time frame.

The two phones were just one part of an eclectic Dreame launch event that also included a Rocket-powered electric carA washing robot and a TV with moving speakers. At least Dreame knows how to dream big.