Hope the product is better than the website....
Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company
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#12I bet this phone will not get fast Android updates ;)
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#13Battery is rather small for Android these days. There's nothing about this phone that would tempt me to trade in my iPhone 7 for this - or any other Android phone for that matter
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#14Boy do I miss the websites of the late 90s. How about you spend another second or two thinking about how your content is structured.
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#15Hope the product is better than the website....
Website seemed quite functional for me on my galaxy 7. What were your gripes?
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#16Interesting. So he's started a new company to focus on products that have "play well with others" as a design concept.
I like the idea he's promoting with the phone where all the accessories either magnetically connect or a wireless connection. I hate having to purchase the same things over and over again.
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#17Who cares if the casing is scratch resistant titantium? That case is not the limiting factor for hardware longevity, the non-removal non-user-servicable battery is.
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#18Ok, a new phone made by the creator of Android which claims to be extremely well built. However, since most phones now tend to reach the "good enough" level, my main question is about software and left unanswered. What version/flavour of Android does it run? How will updates be planned? For how many years will updates be provided? What's the size of the security team at Essential? Providing an up-to-date Android with…
Totally agree with this - this is what Android OEMs, including Google, don't seem to understand. For all we know this guy has the attention span of a fly and will go off and do something else in 6 months.
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#19I'm drowning in a pretty website with no summary of what I am looking at.
It's literally the same concept as Apple's Mac Pro website, and there's a picture of a phone you haven't seen before when you open it. How obvious does it need to be?
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#20Chrome 40, so all I see is menu headings. Anyone got a summary?
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