Essential Phone - a new smartphone from Android creator

Andy Rubin - one of the founders and main developers of the Android operating system. In 2014 he left Google and focused on the work on the issue of its own smart phone: the screen, occupying almost the entire front panel, and a modular system.

Published on the project website articleIn which Andy Rubin alludes to the fact that the Android ecosystem is no longer meet modern realities. Therefore, they founded a new company, which will be guided by entirely different principles. Issued its devices must be completely open to the user, easy to use and contain only the best ingredients.

The first gadget to a new company called Essential Phone. This smartphone with 5,7-inch screen resolution of 2560 × 1312 pixels, which takes up almost the entire front panel of the device. Developers have used interesting innovation for placing the front camera: it is in a small projection in the housing top. The body is made of a titanium alloy and a ceramic rear surface.

Smartphone runs on processor 835 Qualcomm has 4GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. To date, this is quite enough to gain a firm foothold in the premium segment.

On the rear surface developers device 13 placed two megapixel lens. In addition, there is another interesting detail in the form of a special pad with magnetic connectors to which additional modules can be connected. Together with the phone were presented two of them: a 360-degree camera and the additional charging dock.

The exact date of the start of sales is still unknown, but preliminary collection of orders already has begun. The price of the device is $ 699.