Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone Looks Like The Phone Of My Dreams

Andy Rubin, who created Android will unveil the first product from his new company Essential. The phone, dubbed the “Essential Phone” looks to be the device to challenge Google’s wildly popular Pixel devices. It’s a simple, yet moderately ambitious device that looks great at first glance. The biggest challenge the Essential Phone will face though, is an extremely tight grip on the market by Samsung and Apple. Oh, and the dozens of other Android phones claiming to give users a “truly premium experience.”

Let’s get this out-of-the-way right now. This phone, by most people’s standards, will be expensive. The starting price tag for the Essential Phone will be $700, and it’ll come with high-end specs and features. In short, this will be a flagship device. From the pictures obtained by The Verge, the phone will be gorgeous, and will have an even more immersive screen than that of the Galaxy S8. The Screen will be entirely edge-to-edge, even wrapping around the front facing camera.

In addition to having a top-notch display, the Essential Phone will also have top-of-the-line tech inside as well. There’ll be a Qualcomm 835 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of onboard storage powering this beast. It’ll also sport a super slim version of the Android OS, so there’s no fear of it being bogged down by bloat. Essential plans on launching its phone in the US first, with other countries to follow. Make no mistake about it, Essential is so serious about this being an efficient, yet effective phone, that they didn’t even include a logo anywhere on the device.

The kicker here, is that Essential is laying the ground work for this to also be a modular type phone, with room for added equipment. They’ve accomplished this by using a method similar to Lenovo’s Moto phones, by way of a magnetic connector. They’re also relying heavily on wireless data transfer, and they too, were “brave enough” to exclude a 3.5mm headphone port. 

The Essential Phone will be a phone that makes some noise in the wireless space. The only question now, is how much noise can Andy Rubin make in an already noisy smartphone space.

Via The Verge

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