14 DAY TRIAL // A new report from the Financial Times says that Android creator Andy Rubin's highly-anticipated Essential Phone smartphone device will be coming to the UK later this year, as well as to other parts of Europe and Japan.
We reported last month that Canadian national telecommunications company TELUS announced that it wants to be the preferred Canadian carrier and retail partner of Andy Rubin's new company, Essential Products, bringing Canadians this year’s hottest mobile phone, the Essential Phone.
While US customers can purchase the Essential Phone for as low as $699 USD from the company's online store and use it on the Sprint mobile network, it now looks like Essential Products is in talks with several British mobile carriers, including EE, to bring the phone to the UK sometime this year, according to Financial Times.
First Essential Phone units are still to come
Unfortunately, it looks like the Essential Phone is not yet ready to see the light of day, as the June 2017 deadline for shipping the first units is long gone, but we have faith in Andy Rubin and his new company doing a great job in manufacturing a premium mobile experience for all of us.
Crafted using titanium and ceramic materials, the Essential Phone promises to be an amazing device featuring an edge-to-edge, gorgeous 5.7-inch display with 2560x1312 px resolution, a 10nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Octa-Core Kryo 280 processor running at 2.45GHz, an Adreno 540 GPU, and 128GB storage..
The smartphone also promises a 13MP dual-camera system and a powerful 3040mAh non-removable battery that should last you a full day in "normal use." Financial Times' new report also suggests that the Essential Phone will be coming to other parts of Europe, as well as Japan, and we can't wait to get our hands on the device.