In 2003, Andy Rubin founded Android. Two years later, Android was acquired by Google. In 2014, Andy Rubin left Google to create Essential Products.
Editor’s note: This article is from interface news, author Zheng Jieyao.
Image from Andy Rubin Twitter
Although there have been reports that the creation of Android’s father Andy Rubin is already considered for sale. Recently, however, he posted a photo of his long-strip device “mobile phone” on Twitter. It is widely believed that this is the new project Gem that his company is developing.
After that, the official official Twitter also sent two computer renderings, and the text said that this phone will reshape everyone’s concept of mobile phones.
From the official renderings, this phone has a very special shape, the shape of the strip is very similar to the touch remote control, the front UI is adapted according to the shape of the model, and the perforated front camera is designed in the upper left corner. The rear case is provided with a single circular lens module and a physical fingerprint recognition module.
Color, Project Gem uses 4 very dazzling electroplating colors, and the body color will followThe light changes.
As of now, Essential has not yet disclosed the specific price and time to market of the phone. According to foreign media reports, the phone may run Android 10 system, and equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 processor.
In 2003, Andy Rubin founded Android. Two years later, Android was acquired by Google, Andy Rubin joined Google, and in the following years led the Android team to make it all The world’s most popular mobile operating system. In 2014, Andy Rubin left from Google, and then founded the Playground venture capital fund and design studio, and Essential Products is a project internally hatched by Playgound.
After the latest round of financing, Essential Products has been valued at more than $1 billion and ranks among the unicorns. However, compared to the smooth financing, Essential Products’ first product, Essential Phone, encountered a lot of trouble in the mass production process, and even stopped production.
And the latest Project Gem, under such a limit of the screen ratio, I do not know how many highlights can be squeezed out?