Andy Rubin expected to show off Essential's first phone on May 30

By Andrew Martonik
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Essential, the phone brand founded by Andy Rubin, is building up the hype to making an announcement next week. Essential has launched a new Twitter account and is teasing some sort of announcement for May 30

https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/867782330173095937

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That conveniently overlaps with Andy Rubin's appearance at Recode's Code Conference, which starts on May 30. It's expected we'll get some sort of details on the device — and the company itself — and could even see the hardware.

Aside from a single teaser image showing a tiny corner of the phone, we don't really have any details on what's in store. We expect a futuristic phone that's running Android and has some value-added features based on artificial intelligence, but then again, that's sounding a lot like every other top-end phone launched in 2017.

We'll have to wait a week and see how much Rubin has to show off.

Andrew Martonik
Andrew Martonik

Andrew was an Executive Editor, U.S. at Android Central between 2012 and 2020.

9 Comments
  • I'm curious but I wouldn't be holding my breath.
  • Probably just a new picture exposing yet another 10 cm of the phone.
  • LOL
  • 10 cm is actually quite a lot, as phones go. It's nearly my entire screen!
  • I'm definitely excited to see this phone. He is after all one of the creators of android and was leading the android team for nearly a decade.
  • I'm not bothered about something big coming. I'm fed up of oversized phones, give me something smaller, small bezels and a flat screen about 4.7" would be ideal.
  • 4.7" with no bezels would be insanely tiny. You could very comfortably reach a full 5" screen with no bezels, so i'd say 5" can be a minimum, and if its 5.5" or even 6" with no bezels, then its perfect!
  • https://youtu.be/liIlW-ovx0Y?start=87&end=93
  • Please be bezel-less.. Please be bezel-less.. Please be bezel-less.. Please be bezel-less..