Essential Phone

Android co-founder Andy Rubin's The Essential Phone​ joins a crowded field of smartphones competing for the same Android enthusiast base of customers. Let's see how the Essential Phone compare to Apple's behemoth across the aisle, the iPhone 7​.

Andy Rubin, co-creator of Android, launched the Essential Phone in an attempt to offer something new and elegant in the smartphone market. Here's how its specs and features compare to those of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, which are current Android leaders.

​Andy Rubin was one of the co-founders of Android, Inc. His latest brainchild? The Essential Phone, a smartphone that seems to echo the industry's larger trends while at the same time promising an iconoclastic approach.