The Essential phone is not what you might expect given the recent Android phones trend. It’s unapologetically wide and almost blocky compared to the curved Samsung Galaxy S8 and skinny-tall like LG G6. That’s not to say it’s phablet-sized, though the small bezels on the 5.7-inch screen, doesn’t make it feel as massive as it could.
But Essential isn’t trying to compete directly with Samsung by creating some liquid curvature on the edges of its screen. It’s a squarish phone, and that’s what it’s intended to be. The titanium rail around the Essential phone is squared off at 90 degrees with enough curved edge to keep it from biting your hand. It feels sturdy without being too massive.
The back is a shining ceramic, and it feels like glass, honestly, but presumably, it’s much more damage resistant. The fingerprint sensor is blessedly simple to reach compared to Samsung’s Galaxy S8, and it’s big enough that it should be an easy target.
True to Rubin’s promise, the only ports you’ll find are a USB-C port on the bottom, flanked by a single speaker grille and the microSD nano-SIM tray. That's not entirely fair: there is one more port, namely the wireless one on the back. It works with two pogo pins that are designed simply to transfer power. To get accessories to stick you use a magnet, and to transfer data, the phone utilizes wireless USB.
It has two cameras to the back, 13-megapixels each. One will presume that one camera is a regular color sensor, and the other camera is monochrome, which allows it to take in more light and data to improve the image. The two-tone flash is there too, and all three are thankfully flush with the device.
But I know why you’re here. You’re here to read about the crazy screen that wraps around the front-facing camera. Here it is, up close:
I’ll say this about it: it’s super weird at first to have a camera sitting in the middle of the top of the screen, where you’d expect it to cover up stuff you’d need. But Android almost never puts anything in that space — it’s empty status bar up there. And Rubin said on stage that it wouldn't cut into movies either.I guess people who see the phone will find it strange and some won’t mind it at all.
Promising you that you will like the Essential Phone’s hardware will be like setting a trap for myself all I can say is that it manageable with its unique design identity even though it’s hitting on the same bezel-less, curved-screen design trends we’ve seen on other smartphones. It feels satisfyingly dense, which is feasibly sign that the battery inside it is capacious enough to last through a whole day.
We’ll have much more to say about the Essential Phone, the ambitious / Quixotic plan to create an ecosystem of wireless modules, and all the rest. We’ll be watching carefully to see if Rubin’s plan to keep carrier bloatware off the phone comes to pass, too.
The good news is that we won’t have to wait especially long to find out the answers to some of those questions. Rubin implied on stage that he hoped to ship the phone within the next 30 days.
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