I didn't expect to see this we have a re-emergence the essential phone do you remember the

essential phone I play I mean how long ago was that that's a while back now the essential phone

This of course was the device made by the former Android guy who then went to work with Google, Andy Rubin.

It was this crazy, simple looking

Strip down

minimal Android device and it came in fancy colors and at the time We had seen notches but nothing close to the type of notch that they put into the

original essential phone it was the first kind of tiny little water drop and

it was a bit mind-blowing at the time we hadn't seen

bezel this at the time it just got a lot of attention on top of that it was

essentially stock Android.

Now I didn't mean it like that, Will.

Yeah, but I see what you did there.

Yeah, you see it, okay.

Don't give me too much credit, all right? and it had the modules that went on the back but

it never really I don't know how much steam it picked up from an adoption perspective

I never anecdotally I never saw them out in the world but I thought it was a pretty cool phone of the time and

they went on to sell it for a period I don't know exactly how long as well it was

announced in 2017 and released August 17th 2017 had a ceramic body

edge to edge display I mean it was cool at the time it captured a lot of

attention but then you don't hear from them for a bit. It just kind of they just

kind of go away you don't hear about them for a bit in the meantime

smartphones are launching left right and center and then today we get this hot new

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