Essential Reveals Project Gem Smartphone With Very Long, Unusual Design

'Andy Rubin, the controversial mobile industry executive who
co-founded Android, left Google amid allegations of sexual misconduct
while retaining a huge severance package, and went on to create the
Essential Phone, has tweeted photos teasing an upcoming device with an
elongated design and very tall UI composed of card-like apps. The
Verge reports:

It look extremely small in his hands, too. The device has a large
button and volume rocker on the right edge and a fingerprint divot
around back, below what appears to be a single main camera. And as you
can see, these devices have some decidedly flashy finishes that change
color when you view them at different angles -- a sea green that
shifts to yellow and blue, for example.

An Essential spokesperson confirmed to the The Verge that this is the
company's new phone, adding: "We've been working on a new device
that's now in early testing with our team outside the lab. We look
forward to sharing more in the near future." A couple hours later,
Essential tweeted some slightly more official images of the new phone,
which it's calling Project Gem.

XDA-Developers also spotted some leaked code that mentions the divot
on the rear of the device may activate its voice assistant when you
tap your finger to it. They also suggest it runs Android and packs a
Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 processor. '

-- source: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/19/10/09/0519214

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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