Andy Rubin shows off new Essential phone with a unique design (twitter.com)

The colors look good, but I am not sure why this is so long. Some people in the twitter thread are saying it is same as Galaxy Note, can anyone confirm?

for those who thought the Xperia 1 just wasnt taking things far enough!

not sure itll take off myself but i guess they get points for trying something different

Casual, totally not staged, Boston Dynamisc Spot in the background. Lets not forget Andy Rubin playbook is burning money until a bigger fool comes along : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21062345

How is this not going to suffer the same lack-of-popularity that his last phone suffered?

What is the purpose of being long, so you can comfortably hold it with one hand? You can't really do that since it's touchscreen, you'll be touching the screen by accident more often from having to hold the phone with a claw-shaped hand.

Because it's so long you'll be needing both hands if you ever need to touch something at the top of the screen.

No video would ever work nicely for that aspect ratio.