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Thoughts on the new Project GEM from Essential

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Essential announced their next phone yesterday called Project Gem. It's definitely not what I would have expected to follow up the PH-1. A tiled UI similar to the Windows Phone, a mid-range Snapdragon 730 processor, but most importantly it's the shape that sets a lot of people off. I like that this is not another rectangular smart phone almost indistinguishable from the next flagship but, it does not seem practical. Essential was aiming for a phone companion, controlled by voice gestures, I'm assuming.

 

Essential will be turning away most of their current PH-1 users, myself included. True to their name, this phone is essential, the developers have optimised the UI to fit the small form factor and I doubt people would use the phone as much as they would a regular sized smartphone. Watching media would be harder, although following text conversations might be easier while replying with text-to-speech (because we all know that works 100% of the time).

 

Maybe they'll attract a new user base? What are you thoughts on the phone?

 

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most of what i do on my phone is video and chatting, this stick seems useless for both of those so im not a fan. Cool to see someone doing something different though

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Essential struggled to sell the PH-1, this thing will just be the next nail in their coffin. Never heard of anyone asking for something like this, its ridiculous looking

 

Also, why do they have a boston dynamics dog robot?

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1 hour ago, Radioactive Snowman said:

Essential struggled to sell the PH-1, this thing will just be the next nail in their coffin. Never heard of anyone asking for something like this, its ridiculous looking

Yeah very much so, they're are aiming for a even more niche market, can't see this going well.

 

 

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