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Android creator unveils ceramic phone, home control device

Essential Phone and Essential Home are part of his new Playground Global incubator, which plans to raise US$300m

Published Wed, May 31, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    San Francisco

    ANDY Rubin created the software that powers hundreds of millions of Android devices around the world. Now, he has two gadgets of his own: the Essential Phone and the Essential Home.

    The phone's display fills most of the front, except for a camera cutout, slim bezels and a small chin at the bottom. The almost full-screen display echoes a design popularised earlier this year by Samsung Electronics Co's Galaxy S8 handset and soon to be followed by Apple Inc with a revamped iPhone.

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