The inventor of Android wants to sell you an incredibly ugly, useless phone that nobody in their right mind should buy

[Chris Smith]

After his rather unceremonious departure from Google, Andy Rubin founded Essential, a hardware company supposed to manufacture high-end smartphones and other hardware. Thus came the Essential Phone, a device that proved to be not that essential to anyone. So few units were sold that nobody would blame you if you forgot this thing actually existed. The Essential and its notch design was launched in 2017 before the iPhone X, and it’s often a phone that hardcore Android fans like to believe inspired all Android OEMs to copy the notch — it didn't. Still, the company was rumored to be working on a successor, and that phone might launch soon, given Rubin’s recent teasers on Twitter. If you thought the Essential was ugly, then just wait until you see this one.

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