The Huawei Honor 7i mid-range smartphone is due to launch on August 20th according to a post on Weibo, China’s biggest social network. The handset has recently passed through TENAA and once again we can see the ultra-quirky camera module that transforms something that is otherwise plainly designed into something unique in the market… that’s not necessarily a good thing by the way.

The rear camera sits normally on the rear, but it is bedded into a sliding module that slides up and down, essentially sticking out of the smartphone body when out. This does nothing to the rear camera, but this sliding module reveals the front facing lens on the rear of the slider. The front snapper includes an LED flash and is otherwise hidden from view, only popping up when you want to take shots.

We imagine that the slider works automatically and hopefully quickly as users want to be able to snap some images rapidly. Despite that, this whole mechanism just feels pointless and a gimmick, and we can’t but think it is just that. Pointless gimmick aside, the Honor 7i features a 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, although a TENAA leak suggested 3GB of RAM and 32GB of native storage, meaning two versions may be launching.