Essential founder Andy Rubin shows tall and narrow upcoming phone with color shifting back

09 October 2019
It's one of the weirdest designs we've seen in a long time.

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lol do you really think this is next Essential phone? yes, and Earth is flat...

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    • Anonymous
    • MwH
    • 09 Oct 2019

    Hope it doesn't run android

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      • AHMED
      • KS2
      • 09 Oct 2019

      not a good design how can u keep in pockets it will always . ... come out .

        NO, NO, NO, please don't do this. It it too narrow and too long to put it comfortably in your pocket. It would be a terrible phone to use it anyway. Just make an Essential like phone(one which is not that hard to repair in the first place), without thick bezels+ add good specs and sell it in Europe too not just in USA.

          Too much money in your pockets Andy?
          Wasting time, energy and resources to build a useless device, beats me. Try to put this device on any pocket. Not to mention reading would be a nightmare or about 100% of the apps will be cropped to less than half the tiny screen.
          Lets hope the trend of useless devices doesn't catch up. First Xiaomi with Alfa, now this one. Fordable phones are another retard move. We already have small phones, large phones, and tablets. We don't need a phone that still is heavy as a tablet and is still not pocket friendly and worst, devices are getting fragile, should be the opposite. I'm not saying companies should not innovate, I'm saying they are betting on the wrong horses.

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            • Anonymous
            • 6j9
            • 09 Oct 2019

            Finally someone tries to spice up things a bit.

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              • Anonymous
              • MNU
              • 09 Oct 2019

              This only confirms that Andy Rubin is a clueless man that simply got lucky with Android.

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                • Anonymous
                • 2Uh
                • 09 Oct 2019

                Whackcar, 09 Oct 2019Sony fanboys better not mock this design, it's probably gon... moreYou rather mean all the people who mock sony's design. They better don't call this cool, because it's even more extreme.

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                  • bin79
                  • HEE
                  • 09 Oct 2019

                  I have no interest in such form factor, but it's indeed about time we have a wide variety of form factors and sizes to choose from.

                    Sony fanboys better not mock this design, it's probably gonna feature in the next generation Sony devices. :p

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                      • Anonymous
                      • 2Aw
                      • 09 Oct 2019

                      This looks super nice! interesting form factor too

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                        • NL
                        • U}}
                        • 09 Oct 2019

                        Marco M, 09 Oct 2019Don't you mean 7280? Hmmm, I also wonder if this will ... moreAh yes, indeed 7280. You got good memory there

                          NL, 09 Oct 2019This might work if the segmentation is an affordable entry ... moreDon't you mean 7280?


                          Hmmm, I also wonder if this will have a T9 keyboard as default, seeing as qwerty will be pretty much useless in both vertical and horizontal mode.

                            another dumb phone incoming

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                              • gimm
                              • tx4
                              • 09 Oct 2019

                              Consumer: "can you make phone dumber than Essential Phone"
                              Essential: "Sure, how about this?"

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                                • Smartphoner
                                • 6kv
                                • 09 Oct 2019

                                Smartphones don't to be tall and thin nor to be folded nor to be 360 screen! Smartphones need to have bigger battery capacities, better power consumption, faster charging, higher screen resolutions, better cameras, better sound qualities, to have earphone jacks, IR blasters, S pens, projectors!
                                These good for nothing companies should stop wasting our time on useless designs and start creating useful devices!

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 0BG
                                  • 09 Oct 2019

                                  LOL congrats, i didn't think they can come up with something more useless than the Essential phone, but they did it somehow.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • 7s3
                                    • 09 Oct 2019

                                    I don't need another phone to be used as a remote for my tv

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                                      • nalluri
                                      • 0y7
                                      • 09 Oct 2019

                                      Notsure, 09 Oct 2019Does it come with a separate keyboard? I wouldn't take it e... moreprobably good ol' t9 keyboard

                                        Does it come with a separate keyboard? I wouldn't take it even if I was given it for free, it makes no sense and it's almost useless.