The Essential Phone is official: a bezel-less handset for the future by the creator of Android

The Essential Phone has just broken cover. It's the first phone by the namesake company, conceived by Andy Rubin, the person who created Android and showing his idea of what the Android phone of the future should look like.

And it's a daring new device: it's a true bezel-less phone with a full-screen display that takes even more of the front than the Galaxy S8, and it's a modular phone at its core. 

A new rival to iPhones and Samsung Galaxies emergesPlus, it's an all-out flagship phone that is launching first in the ...