It’s called the Essential Phone and it has everything you could want in a flagship smartphone today in a package that comes in at just under $700.
It has a 5.71-inch edge-to-edge display that takes up more space on the front panel than, say, the screen on the Galaxy S8 — not to mention the panel that the iPhone 7 Plus comes with. The resolution is 1,312 by 2,560, so it has a pretty unusual aspect ratio — 19:10 to be exact, which makes it way taller than a standard 16:9 display.
The camera on the back has two 13MP sensors and f/1.85 lenses, with one of the two sensors offering a “true monochrome mode” that you can shoot in. It offers 4K video recording at 30FPS and 1080p video recording at 60FPS. The front-facing camera is an 8MP unit, with an f/2.2 lens, that is also capable of 4K video recording at 30FPS and 1080p at 60FPS.
In terms of processing power, the Essential Phone has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, with four cores clocked at up to 2.45GHz and the other four at 1.9GHz, and 4GB of RAM. The device has a 3,040mAh battery with fast charging support via the USB Type-C port. That is not class-leading by any measure if we consider that the smartphone is 7.8mm thick (it is also 141.5mm tall and 71.1mm wide and weighs less than 185 grams). It does not have a 3.5mm headphone jack either.
