As the world's largest mobile operating system, Android has almost unified the entire mobile phone market, in addition to Apple's own faction, all the big manufacturers are basically equipped with Android systems. There have been quite a few strong challengers before, such as Samsung, Microsoft, LG, BlackBerry, etc., but they all ended up failing completely. Of course, there is also a challenge target Huawei
But Leaving aside Huawei, I don't know if you remember the Essential Phone PH-1 mobile phone created by Andy Rubin, the father of Android, a few years ago? This phone claims not to use the Android system, and has made great innovations in appearance and configuration
For example, the introduction of ceramic and glass mixed materials, as well as the very advanced three-sided borderless + waterdrop screen design, and also introduced a magnetic plug-in camera and other new ways of playing. At the same time, Andy Rubin also criticized that the Android system is not the same development route as when he was founded, so as the father of Android, the mobile phone he created should be innovative and unique. But alas
After the release of the first model in 2017, the company was shut down in February last year due to serious miscalculations in the market, coupled with problems with the capital chain of small companies, which ended in failure. However, the father of Android did not stop, and the Essential team members were not willing to fail
They re-founded OSOM and warmed up their first smartphone product, the OSOM OV1, which focuses on privacy. The OSOM OV1, while not a direct successor to the Essential PH-1, is a spiritual successor that retains a rear fingerprint sensor and dual camera setup. The machine will not only provide a near-native Android experience
The phone will focus on three areas: privacy, simplicity and choice. To this end, OSOM said that it is developing three new software to make the privacy protection performance of OSOM OV1 mobile phones a hundred times more powerful than the current Android system, yes, you read it right
Only the OSOM OV1 is known to carry Qualcomm chips, which could be launched as early as 2022 MWC, depending on testing. The development of this mobile phone is nearing the end, and in appearance, it still continues the rules of its team not playing cards according to common sense, and the rear camera actually uses a triangular matrix style, I don't know if the whole machine will be strange again?