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Essential is a company started by Ex-Googler and the creator of Android - Andy Rubin. Essential's first Android phone was well received and was one of the first Android smartphone to come up with a water drop style Notch to house the front camera. It also got new Android Software OTAs without much delays - sometimes on the same day as Google Pixel phones. A while back, it was rumoured Andy Robin is shutting down Essential and we won't see any new phones from the company. Fortunately that's not the case. GEM Colorshift material pic.twitter.com/QJStoiDleH — Andy Rubin (@Arubin) October 8, 2019 Andy Rubin on Twitter has shared some hands-on pictures of their upcoming phone with hashtag #ProjectGEM. Is this the upcoming Essential 2 ? Probably it would be called something else.  It has a very unique, very tall form factor - like your TV remote. Tweets also give a glimpse at the new UI this tall phone would ship with. Essential has confirmed it's now in the testi