Mishaal Rahman on Nostr: The cancelled Essential GEM phone was such a weird device lol. It was absurdly tall ...
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"content": "The cancelled Essential GEM phone was such a weird device lol. It was absurdly tall and narrow and included microG instead of GMS with its Android 10-based build.\n\nThe way I found out a lot of details about this device back in 2019 was a wild story: https://web.archive.org/web/20191009060637/https://www.xda-developers.com/essential-next-device-early-testing/\n\nImage credits: Rob from Nova Launcher\n\nhttps://cdn.masto.host/androiddevsocial/media_attachments/files/112/781/112/711/624/660/original/2a0cc9c5134081b9.jpg",
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