Android co-founder Andy Rubin is working on an extensible high-end smartphone without bezels, that he is halfway through this year want release. He has previously founded a company that, among other things, focuses on phones and home automation, message Bloomberg, on the basis of its own resources.
The company is called Essential, reported under other Mark Gurman via the news agency. That name has Rubin the end of 2015, all registered. With a team of forty people, which for a part are coming from Apple and Google, the Android-founder multiple devices. Thereby, the smartphone plays a central role, together with artificial intelligence. Rubin would be in conversation with Foxconn for the production of the device, according to various Bloomberg sources. It is not clear whether the device is Android it will run.
The phone may have a screen larger than 5.5″. When this unit goes to one of several prototypes of Essential. The model would have a screen with different levels of pressure can detect, just like the iPhone. For the exterior of the phone would be the team of Rubin tests with materials such as metal for the edges and ceramic for the back.
Additionally, you will develop the Essential team a private connection, which both serves for the charging of the phone as for extending the functionality. So should there by a magnetic system several enhancements to the device to add are, for example, a 360-gradencamera that Essential develop yourself. In the developing device must have a price board which is near to that of a iPhone 7, though that still may change. The iPhone 7 cost at release 769 euros for the cheapest variant.
Rumors about the plans of Rubin have been going longer, so it was a South Korean site in december with information that he smartphones will develop under a new private company.
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