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

It’s definitely not April Fools’ Day. Dreame, the company best known for robot vacuums, showed off three new models of its Aurora smartphone at its Dreame NEXT event in San Francisco. All of the phones, which the company previously introduced in China in March, have flashy designs. But Dreame has some interesting, occasionally tacky ideas about what it wants to bring to the industry with its new phones, including magnetic modules that add functionality and bedazzled, textured patterns in a luxury version that, at times, make it look like a totally different phone. The standard Aurora is the most normal-looking phone. It has a gigantic, OnePlus 13-like circular camera bump at the top of its backside and comes in multiple options that aren’t just a single color but have patterns, like a jade green, granite-like one that the company kept showing. During its presentation, Dreame mentioned a few specs, like a 200-megapixel camera and 8K video, but didn’t get more specific, at least about the massive camera. It also spent time on the phone’s connectivity, which the company says will get connected faster and stay connected more consistently than competing smartphones. We’ll see! Then ther